I pushed a couple of changes out of 10.6 (changed their milestones to
11) that did not look ready to me, but I wouldn't object to seeing
them in 10.6 if it can happen soon

On Thu, Oct 22, 2026 at 3:16 AM Luca Cavanna <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Sounds like a plan, Houston.
>
> On your question: I added the milestone to some PRs that did not have
> it as a best effort, for tracking purposes. Those looked like changes
> that would be good to have, but we should not block the 10.6 release
> if they don't make it in.
>
> Cheers
> Luca
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 21, 2026 at 7:44 PM Houston Putman <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Both of those are fine with me then Luca, and thanks for volunteering to do 
> > them!
> >
> > Maybe move the 10.7 issues to 10.6 and give them a few more days to sort 
> > themselves out (since it's obviously going to be longer to get those 
> > features than if we were doing a 10.7).
> > And after the release is done, I'll move the open bug fix issues to the 
> > newly created 10.6.1 milestone and move all the other open issues to 11.0.0.
> > That way if we need to do an RC2, those issues are still being watched and 
> > maybe someone will be able to get them merged by then.
> >
> > Quick question. I notice you added the milestone for some of these. Did you 
> > do that with a purpose of having them make the release, or just giving them 
> > the next milestone in case they were ready at the time?
> >
> > - Houston
> >
> > On Wed, Oct 21, 2026 at 3:55 AM Michael Sokolov <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>
> >> Weird, I saw two of your emails, Luca, the original and the re send.
> >>
> >> On Wed, Oct 21, 2026, 1:19 AM Luca Cavanna <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> LOL, not sure what happened with my previous email and its background
> >>> :)  Let me try that again with plain text.
> >>>
> >>> ---------------------------------------------
> >>>
> >>> Thanks Houston!
> >>>
> >>> Based on parallel conversations about Lucene 11.0, I believe 10.6 will
> >>> be the final 10.x release.
> >>>
> >>> With that, I think we should remove the newly created 10.7 milestone,
> >>> and push those issues to 11.0 instead. Also, to avoid confusion around
> >>> backporting and prevent needless backporting overhead, I think we
> >>> should decommission branch_10x like we did with branch_9x, see
> >>> https://github.com/apache/lucene/tree/branch_9x .
> >>>
> >>> I can take care of both in the coming days if nobody has objections.
> >>>
> >>> Cheers
> >>> Luca
> >>> On Wed, Oct 21, 2026 at 10:13 AM Luca Cavanna <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>> >
> >>> > Thanks Houston!
> >>> >
> >>> > Based on parallel conversations about Lucene 11.0, I believe 10.6 will 
> >>> > be the final 10.x release.
> >>> >
> >>> > With that, I think we should remove the newly created 10.7 milestone, 
> >>> > and push those issues to 11.0 instead. Also, to avoid confusion around 
> >>> > backporting and prevent needless backporting overhead, I think we 
> >>> > should decommission branch_10x like we did with branch_9x, see 
> >>> > https://github.com/apache/lucene/tree/branch_9x .
> >>> >
> >>> > I can take care of both in the coming days if nobody has objections.
> >>> >
> >>> > Cheers
> >>> > Luca
> >>> >
> >>> > On Tue, Oct 20, 2026, 23:21 Houston Putman <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>> >>
> >>> >> I have also added a draft release notes (no content currently) at 
> >>> >> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/spaces/LUCENE/pages/451980277/ReleaseNote10_6_0
> >>> >>
> >>> >> So please add things there if you want them included in the 
> >>> >> announcement.
> >>> >>
> >>> >> - Houston
> >>> >>
> >>> >> On Tue, Oct 20, 2026 at 1:50 PM Houston Putman <[email protected]> 
> >>> >> wrote:
> >>> >>>
> >>> >>> Ok, I'm going through the list of issues with the 10.6 milestone that 
> >>> >>> haven't been merged and two are outstanding.
> >>> >>> I'm going to move the milestones of both (#16623 and #16576), since 
> >>> >>> no one has made a fuss on them since I announced the feature freeze 
> >>> >>> last week.
> >>> >>> Please let me know now if they will land in the next few days.
> >>> >>>
> >>> >>> Other than that, there are a few issues/prs missing backports from 
> >>> >>> main that were tagged 10.6 in the changelog.
> >>> >>> I'm tracking those down, and will get them resolved before making the 
> >>> >>> RC.
> >>> >>>
> >>> >>> - Houston
> >>> >>>
> >>> >>> On Wed, Oct 14, 2026 at 11:00 AM Houston Putman <[email protected]> 
> >>> >>> wrote:
> >>> >>>>
> >>> >>>> NOTICE:
> >>> >>>>
> >>> >>>> Branch branch_10_6 has been cut and versions updated to 10.7 on 
> >>> >>>> stable branch.
> >>> >>>>
> >>> >>>> Please observe the normal rules:
> >>> >>>>
> >>> >>>> * No new features may be committed to the branch.
> >>> >>>> * Documentation patches, build patches and serious bug fixes may be
> >>> >>>>   committed to the branch. However, you should submit all patches you
> >>> >>>>   want to commit as pull requests first to give others the chance to 
> >>> >>>> review
> >>> >>>>   and possibly vote against them. Keep in mind that it is our
> >>> >>>>   main intention to keep the branch as stable as possible.
> >>> >>>> * All patches that are intended for the branch should first be 
> >>> >>>> committed
> >>> >>>>   to the unstable branch, merged into the stable branch, and then 
> >>> >>>> into
> >>> >>>>   the current release branch.
> >>> >>>> * Normal unstable and stable branch development may continue as 
> >>> >>>> usual.
> >>> >>>>   However, if you plan to commit a big change to the unstable branch
> >>> >>>>   while the branch feature freeze is in effect, think twice: can't 
> >>> >>>> the
> >>> >>>>   addition wait a couple more days? Merges of bug fixes into the 
> >>> >>>> branch
> >>> >>>>   may become more difficult.
> >>> >>>> * Only Github issues with Milestone 10.6
> >>> >>>>   will delay a release candidate build.
> >>> >>>>
> >>> >>>> I plan to make an RC on 10/20. So please let me know if any of the 
> >>> >>>> remaining open issues in the 10.6.0 milestone are blockers, or if 
> >>> >>>> there's anything else you need to make it to the branch.
> >>> >>>>
> >>> >>>> - Houston
> >>>
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