On 18 July I wrote:
It's time to get 2.4.0 moving. We think the next build will be a release
candidate rather than another beta.
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It's possible the release will be made in just under a week's time,
although more likely that it'll be at least two weeks.
It's taken a little longer, but
It's time to get 2.4.0 moving. We think the next build will be a release
candidate rather than another beta.
http://www.freeciv.org/wiki/NEWS-2.4.0-RC1 has the current change list.
I'm declaring a tentative string freeze in preparation for that, and
calling for translation updates. Tentative only