[Bf-committers] Blender 2.80 Release Candidate - master frozen

[Brecht Van Lommel]

Hey everyone,

We had some additional issues to solve. The release candidate builds
are ready now, but we'll wait until tomorrow (July 12) to make them
available and update blender.org.

Thanks,
Brecht.

On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 5:22 PM Brecht Van Lommel
<brechtvanlommel at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> We have entered the 2.80 release candidate phase now. That means
> master will be mostly frozen, only important bugfixes should go in.
> Please ensure commits are reviewed by another developer, and don't
> make risky changes.
>
> Sergey will do the branching & tagging, after which platform
> maintainers can make the release candidate builds. If all goes well
> these builds go up on blender.org tomorrow, July 11.
>
> The final release is then planned for July 18, depending if any
> critical issues come up that require more time. After this master will
> be open for the 2.81 release cycle.
>
> Thanks,
> Brecht.