Hello. 1.8 is progressing well enough that we know it should be out on Sunday or Monday we can declare the 1.9 schedule final for now. If the moon comes down we might slip a few days but without that we try to hold it. :) Schedule -------- 2013-12-02 EFL release 1.8 / Merge window for 1.9 opens 2013-12-26 Notice about soon ending first merge window 2013-12-30 First merge window is over. Cut a technology preview tarball (different name?) 2014-01-06 Second stabilization week starts 2014-01-13 Second merge window opens 2014-02-06 Notice about soon ending second merge window 2014-02-10 Second merge window is over. Only bug fixes from this point Alpha release tarball 2014-02-17 Second stabilization weeks starts. Release candidate 2 Beta release tarball 2014-02-24 EFL 1.9 https://phab.enlightenment.org/w/efl_and_elementary_1_9/ The next important date is that after you read the final 1.8 release announcement you can go nuts again with putting stuff into master. You have 4 weeks for that. From 26.12 I want you to use your hard earned christmas vacation to look at all the bugs we introduced. Take it as my christmas present. ;) If you know now what you will bring in please put it in the planned features section of the above link. Latest when you commited it to master. That only covers a more whole feature and not every single commit or bugfix. Be as verbose or short as you see fit. regards Stefan Schmidt