<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Greetings!</div><div><br></div><div>This is the revised LLVM 2.8 release schedule:</div><div><br></div><div><b>9/3 - Branch</b></div><div>9/6 - Pre-release1 out (binaries and tar balls), testing begins<br>9/12 - Pre-release1 testing ends<br>9/20 - Pre-release2 testing begins<br>9/26 - Pre-release2 testing ends<br>9/28 - Release!<br></div><div><br></div><div>There will be more information as the branch date approaches. <i>Please have all major features finished as soon as possible.</i> It's important to have them fully tested before we go into the release period.</div><div><br></div><div>Note, 9/3 is not the final date for code submissions. However, as the release process continues, the criteria for accepting patches will become more and more strict. (During the pre-release2 phase, we will accept only those patches which fix regressions from 2.7.)</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers!</div><div>-bw</div><div><br></div></body></html>