[m-dev.] New stable release

[Julien Fischer]

On Mon, 17 Jan 2022, M McDonough wrote:

> On Mon, 17 Jan 2022, Julien Fischer wrote:
>
>> It's high time we had a new stable release since the existing one is
>> now a couple of years old.  I propose to create the release branch
>> towards the end of this week unless anyone has particularly strong
>> objections to doing so.  We'll try (this time) to have another stable
>> release in six months time, so anything that doesn't make it into
>> this release can go into the next one.
>
> It might be worth noting that in the new release Mercury on Sparc64
> has been fixed, and with the sem-recent Boehm update it runs on
> OpenBSD Sparc64.
>
> Or maybe that's not worth noting, not sure how many people out there
> are using Sparc64 anymore.

I would only claim that Sparc64 is supported (or indeed, even 
"fixed") in the presence of a lot more testing on that platform.

Julien.