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The eighth and presumably final 5.9
prepatch is out for testing. “So things have been pretty calm, and rc8 is fairly small. I’m still
waiting for a networking pull with some fixes, so it’s not like I
could have made a final 5.9 release even if I had wanted to, but there
was nothing scary going on this past week, and it all feels ready for
a final 5.9 next weekend.”