Hello, There have been a couple of relatively significant bug fixes submitted over the weekend which we should take into xserver 21.1 branch. As a result I think it makes sense to defer the release of RC 1 by one week, to 2021-09-06.
Regards, Povilas On 8/10/21 2:57 AM, Povilas Kanapickas wrote: > Hello, > > According to my recent testing the master branch is in relatively good > shape. There exist known bugs, but we can start planning the release anyway. > > I would like to propose release schedule for Xserver 21.1. > > - 2021-08-16 - Driver ABI freeze > - 2021-08-30 - 21.1 RC 1 > - every 2 weeks after that: a new RC until the final release > > Note that there are no open MRs that affect the driver ABI and which > make sense to merge at this time relatively near the RC phase. Thus for > practical purposes the ABI freeze could as well be today. > > Differently than previous releases of the X server, the > `server-21.1-branch` release branch will branch off just before the RC 1 > release and not after the final release of 21.1. This is because we want > to remove the code of xwayland DDX for the RC releases as xwayland is > released separately. Accordingly, after RC 1 is released the master > branch will be open again for changes targeting the next release. > > Regards, > Povilas Kanapickas >
