Next week work on release 1.7.0 will begin. It doesn't look like much beyond ad hoc backporting and operationally focused bugfixes have been happening in branch-1 for a while, which is good, and there's no reason not to continue this activity while RC work is in progress.
If you do have any branch-1 targeted work pending, please consider committing it in the next week or so. When we have most pending work flushed any test stabilization effort will be more likely to succeed. Thanks for your attention and consideration. -- Best regards, Andrew Words like orphans lost among the crosstalk, meaning torn from truth's decrepit hands - A23, Crosstalk
