Re: Octave 5.2.0 release

[Kai Torben Ohlhus]

On 12/12/19 11:43 PM, John W. Eaton wrote:
> On 12/12/19 8:38 AM, Kai Torben Ohlhus wrote:
> 
>> By "release candidate" you mean 5.1.90 before 5.2.0?
> 
> Yes, I think it makes sense to do that even for a stable bug-fixing
> release as a final check that "make dist" and the Windows builds work as
> expected.
> 
> jwe
> 


jwe and all,

currently I am uploading fresh builds of the stable branch 5.1.90,
including all 3x3 flavors of MXE and build logs to

   https://octave.space/stable_56dd7419d7aa/

This might take some time, but the most important ones

   octave-5.1.90-w64-*

are already there.  Was it possible to publish that release on

   https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/octave/  ?

I would be happy to announce a final regression test period from January
15 to 31 followed by a minor Octave 5.2.0 release, if no bad regressions
were discovered in that time.  Then all focus goes back to Octave 6.

A final note about the year 2020 change:  Basically, on Octave 5.2.0
there was no development in 2020.  Thus we might skip touching all
headers and just adapt the date in the most important places indicating
the year of the 5.2.0 release.

Kai