The 3.9-rc8 prepatch is out. “Yes, I was really hoping (and originally planning) to release 3.9 final this weekend, but we had enough issues that I just didn’t feel comfy about it. It was borderline, and none of the issues were huge, and maybe I could have called this just 3.9 and opened the merge window, but hey, another week won’t hurt.“
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