<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">Dear members,</div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><br></div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"></div>Getting ready with a weekly wrap is<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> now becoming</div> interesting activity and </div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">I'm </div>glad to see it being received with appreciation <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">- </div>which is a huge motivation.</div><div><br>This week focus was more on <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">addressing</div> an<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"></div> blocker issue<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">s</div> and those that trickle<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">d </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"></div>during early validation.<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> </div>Happy to see not many fell into this - which is a good signal for release.</div><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">But most of our time went into cleaning the stalled issue which were either fixed or invalid (as to latest-master) and those that had very less details or bound to setup of individual server.</div><br>Highlights<br><ul><li>20+ issues we knocked from the bugs queue.<br></li><li>customerportal addon got stabilized.<br></li><li>Discussions Forums was upgraded to get focused engagement.</li></ul><div><div class="gmail_default">What's Next?</div></div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div>We have firmed up the following timelines:<br><ul><li>7.1.0 GA - Release to happen in Mar 1st week.</li><ul><li><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">Internal validation to resume next-week.</div><br><br></li></ul><li>Further Minor Releases - 7.1.1 (and more as required)</li><ul><li>Focused on bug-fixes, features, merge-req<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">s.</div></li><li>Development will continue on master.<br><br></li></ul><li><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"></div>Next Major Release - 7.2.0</li><ul><li><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">Run smooth under strict enforcement of</div> PHP 7.x and MySQL 5.7</li><ul><li>Desire to move towards composer is noted too.</li><li><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">Changes would be more targeted on the server-side (likely less or no affect on the client-side).</div><br></li></ul><li><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"></div>Development will be on a separate branch<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">.</div></li></ul></ul><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Have a happy weekend!</div><br></div>Regards,<br>Prasad
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