Hello everyone, Just wanted to take a few moments to rally everyone to push forward with the 1.6.0 release! What's currently slated for the 1.6.0 version, code in the "main" branch of the various repositories, has collected an amazing number of new features and bug fixes that it'd be really nice to get released to the community. Currently there are 111 Jira issues assigned to that version, with 74 completed and 37 in various states of ongoing progress. Of the 37 outstanding items, many of them already have pull requests opened that just need some review, and several are done but need their associated documentation updated. There are a handful that are tagged for 1.6.0 that may not have been started that either need work or need to be removed from the release. There also may be a bug or two that has been recently identified that should get thrown into the release. We'll also need to add the usual dependency updates and version bumps here as we near completion.
-Nick
