4.0 release plan update

If you’ve been following along with IRCIRC Internet Relay Chat, a network where users can have conversations online. IRC channels are used widely by open source projects, and by WordPress. The primary WordPress channels are #wordpress and #wordpress-dev, on irc.freenode.net. and Trac activity over the last 24 hours, you’ll have noticed that there’s been a lot of it. We’ve had a number of issues pop up, and thus did not reach the targeted freeze of 16:00 UTC on 2014/09/02. If you haven’t been following along, I highly recommend it 🙂

Given that, our new release target is shifted back one day to 16:00 UTC on 2014/09/04. We’ll still kick off two hours beforehand with various pre-launch checks and tasks. This means code freeze by 16:00 UTC on 2014/09/03 – just a few short hours from now. I would also like to run a number of those pre-flight checks in the hour or two before freeze to give us an early chance to squash anything that may come up during those. To that end, an RC2 has been built for final testing.

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