Re: Upcoming 0.26.0, please review release notes

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

> On 11 Dec 2017, at 07:45, Fred Kiefer <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> I was hoping for Richard to step up here. If he doesn’t response today, we 
> should try to go ahead ourselves. I could help later today with the news.texi 
> file. My impression is that we should use a version number of 1.26.0 as quite 
> a few changes have piled up. 
> The release process itself would again be on your side, as you have the 
> required key for it. It would be great to have this one out tonight to reduce 
> the confusion that comes from the gui release.
> Not sure whether we need another gui release to document the increased base 
> version. I think we could do without it.

I was away, and just got home last night.
I had intended to make a release befoire christmas.  As far as I know there 
should be nothng that breaks binary compatibility (so I'd have made it 1.25.1), 
but if people want a new library version number I don't see any problem with 
that.