Monotone 1.2 release candidate

>Hi all!
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>I have solved all the build issues I found with both Botan2 and Botan3,=20
>on FreeBSD and Linux Arch and an old WSL Ubuntu.
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>I have cleaned up the bit of #ifdef mess that the LLM did (I'm still=20
>very thankful for that because it gave me something to break my stall).
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>I think that this release is close enough to be a 1.2 release candidate:
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>% mtn hea
>mtn: branch 'net.venge.monotone.lapo.botan2' is currently merged:
>6ba7278b3d29ed139975347df6b88be344c53b67 [email protected] 2025-12-23 09:26:24=


What is the recommended server to pull this from? (mtn/git/tarball, no
problem with either, hopefully the official release will have a tarball
for package bootstrapping)

>I ask everybody interested in trying it out on their system.
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>What's missing from an actual release?
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>I'd say at least updating the README and ChangeLog.
>Also, testing on Mac.
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>Anything else?
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>PS: I think it's better to have a release sooner than having a perfect=20
>release=E2=80=A6 re-creating deleted ports in downstream repositories will need=20
>a new official release anyways and we will get more feedback later.
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>Lapo Luchini
>[email protected]
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