> 1.2.0 is the first release that ships --gc:arc. 1.2.2 will be released soon > having many arc-related fixes and also other fixes we seemed important enough > to backport. Probably there will be no version 1.2.4 because 1.2.0 isn't an > LTS release.
At Status, we are eagerly waiting for 1.2.2 and will freeze our codebase on 1.2.2 with a 4 months long audit of our Ethereum 2 code that will start before the end of the month (announced here). During that time and until we decide that we have sufficient incentives to move to 1.4.x or later we will stay on a 1.2.x branch. This in particular means that our libraries will be battle-tested for 1.2.x but not for 1.4.x, this might be important for GUI tooling as our desktop team is building a new desktop UI in Nim+QML at [https://github.com/status-im/nim-status-client](https://github.com/status-im/nim-status-client). I.e. if we uncover showstopper bugs on 1.2 we hope to have a 1.2.4 release with the fixes.
