Hi all,
We will be entering feature freeze mode today, Jan 26th, as mentioned in the bug status message on 1/24, unless anyone has any objections.
At this point, changes to the codebase should be restricted to bugfixing activity. If you have feature work still needing wrapped up, please try to do so today.
For the next couple of weeks, if you wish to continue to do development work while the release is coming together, you're encouraged to do so on a branch or in the experimental module. See Wiki for details.
Around Feb 1st, we'll switch to a hard freeze mode. At this point the focus will narrow to showstopper and packaging bugs. We'll be putting out release candidates at this point for folks to test out.
The final release will probably come a few days after the hard freeze, assuming everything goes well.
Thanks, Bryce