Apologies for the late notice on this, but the release team has concluded

that 9.6 is about as ready as it's going to get. We are planning to go

ahead with 9.6.0 release next week --- that is, wrap Monday 26th for

public announcement on Thursday 29th.

Thanks to the Release Management Team (Robert, Alvaro, and Noah) for

driving 9.6 towards an on-time release!

regards, tom lane