With some fixes that have been accomplished over the past few weeks, we now have only 1-2 issues in JIRA that would need to be finished for a release, and I think both of those are effectively done at this point.
I'm pretty happy with where things are at the moment - there's always more tweaking that can be done, but I can't think of anything major that needs to be done that could be done within a reasonable timeframe. The major thing that was done for the next release was to make things ABI stable, so as long as we commit to that going forward(and only breaking it with proper versioning) we should be good. The last time we talked about this Tobias Frost said that the soft-freeze for Debian is the 12th of January[1], so after that point an updated library wouldn't make it into Debian. I would like to get this version into Debian if possible(as that is the distribution I use), but that depends on Tobias' availability. With that in mind, should we do a release in the immediate future(within the next ~7 days), or should we wait a bit for some more tweaking and/or features? -Robert Middleton [1]: https://lists.apache.org/thread/zg150rbkdkzgog1bnd403052818nncs7
