Hi Folks! Our last release was about 5 weeks ago and we've had issues close on branch-1.8 since then. I'd like to start doing RCs by the end of next week in hopes that we can stay under 2 months between releases.
I'm going to dedicate some time at the end of this week / start of next to do a pass of getting available patches applied. I'd appreciate it if some other committers could do so as well. For contributors generally if you have a patch nearly ready or with pending feedback, it'd be nice if you could make a push as well but please don't worry if things don't make it into 1.8.2. I'm going to start pushing to get us on a monthly release cadence, so there should be plenty of additional chances for your work to get into a release. - busbey
