Planning/8.0

Release Schedule

2022-12-14	Beginning of development phase
2023-03-07	Soft feature freeze. Only bug fixes after this point. All feature changes must be already in a sub maintainer tree and all pull requests from submaintainers must have been sent to the list by this date.
2023-03-14	Hard feature freeze. Tag rc0
2023-03-21	Tag rc1
2023-03-28	Tag rc2
~~2023-04-04~~ 2023-04-05	Tag rc3
~~2023-04-11~~ 2023-04-13	~~Release; or tag rc4 if needed~~ tag rc4
~~2023-04-18~~ 2023-04-19	Release
2023-05-27	Freeze for 8.0.1 stable release
2023-05-29	Tag v8.0.1
2023-05-30	Tag v8.0.2 (a bugfix for 8.0.1 release)
2023-07-06	Freeze for 8.0.3 stable release
2023-07-08	Tag v8.0.3

Please use GitLab Issues to track release blocker bugs:

Feel free to add non-bug information that is pertinent to the release here.

See the ChangeLog/8.0 for full details.