Hi, After doing the last evaluations in the RMs circle before going for 7.0.0 RTM preparations, we came to the conclusion that the current state does not look reasonable to be packaged as the final release. The RCs before RC6 was looking acceptable, which gave the reason to announce the planned RTM date on Nov 12th as final. From the todays perspective, the most of the issues discovered and fixed since RC6 are still minor by themselves - 7 crashes (bug #70805 rather critical), and 3 functionality regressions. However, given the amount and the combination of them altogether, the state is in our opinion unsuitable for starting the life cycle of the next major. Thus, resuming the pre-release cycle seems in our opinion the right thing to do ATM. Hence this writing to inform the community about the intention and to gather the opinions. PHP 7 is still going down the home stretch and is very close to the finish, the next RC can be well the last. Though we'd better ensuring the quality as many times as needed before, instead of casually disservicing the consumers. Regards Anatol



