Planning/7.2

Release Schedule

2022-08-30	Beginning of development phase
2022-11-1	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.
2022-11-8	Hard feature freeze. Tag rc0
2022-11-15	Tag rc1
2022-11-22	Tag rc2
2022-11-29	Tag rc3
2022-12-06	~~Release; or tag rc4 if needed~~ Tag rc4
2022-12-13	~~Release if we needed an rc4~~ Release
2023-03-30	Tag v7.2.1
2023-04-20	Freeze for 7.2.2 stable release
2023-04-22	Tag v7.2.2
2023-05-27	Freeze for 7.2.3 stable release
2023-05-29	Tag v7.2.3
2023-07-06	Freeze for 7.2.4 stable release
2023-07-08	Tag v7.2.4
2023-08-05	Freeze for 7.2.5 stable release
2023-08-07	Tag v7.2.5
2023-09-19	Freeze for 7.2.6 stable release
2023-09-21	Tag v7.2.6
2023-11-19	Freeze for 7.2.7 stable/bugfix release
2023-11-21	Tag v7.2.7
2023-12-20	Freeze for 7.2.8 stable/bugfix release
2023-12-22	Tag v7.2.8

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/7.2 for full details.