Re: M2?

I think at this point we are ready to release M2. It has a huge new =
scope - a complete new agentic coding stack.=20

Mike, do you still have time to prepare the release?

Thanks,
Andrus

> On Apr 17, 2026, at 11:00=E2=80=AFAM, Michael Gentry =
<[email protected]> wrote:
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> Hi Nikita,
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> I don't think there is an urgency to get M2 out, so if the outstanding =
PRs
> make sense to include in M2, I think it is OK to wait on them.
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> Thanks,
> mrg
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> On Tue, Apr 14, 2026 at 8:18=E2=80=AFAM Nikita Timofeev =
<[email protected]>
> wrote:
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>> Several PRs are waiting for me, but nothing is too critical, so we =
may go
>> ahead with M3.
>> Instructions are all good, I use them every time.
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>> On Tue, Apr 14, 2026 at 2:37=E2=80=AFAM Andrus Adamchik =
<[email protected]>
>> wrote:
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>>>> I just filed all my taxes
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>>> Congrats! Which reminds me - I am still waiting for my numbers from =
the
>>> accountants :)
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>>>> so I have some free cycles now if there is
>>>> anything I can do to help.
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>>> How about publishing the release. @Nikita - do you have anything in =
the
>>> queue we'd need to deal with before M2 that can't be moved to M3? =
Also
>>> anything missing in the release instructions at
>>> https://cayenne.apache.org/dev/release-guide.html ?
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>>> Andrus
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>>>> On Apr 13, 2026, at 6:16=E2=80=AFPM, Michael Gentry =
<[email protected]>
>> wrote:
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>>>> I just filed all my taxes, so I have some free cycles now if there =
is
>>>> anything I can do to help.
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>>>> On Mon, Apr 13, 2026 at 5:08=E2=80=AFPM Andrus Adamchik =
<[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
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>>>>> Not too many significant new features in M2 so far, though quite a =
few
>>> bug
>>>>> fixes. So yeah, we probably should do it.
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>>>>>> On Apr 13, 2026, at 4:45=E2=80=AFPM, Michael Gentry =
<[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
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>>>>>> Is it time for a 5.0.M2?
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>>>>>> I noticed the M1 was released 2024-09-09 and that seems a long =
time
>>>>> ago...
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>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>> mrg
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>> --
>> Best regards,
>> Nikita Timofeev
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