As Andrew brought up in an earlier e-mail, we didn't socialize the tagging of the next release. My fault. Apologies.
The issue for tagging is here: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-2241 The tags are created already but it is not a big deal to retag should we want to put more changes in. How does the list feel about generating an RC release soon? I don't put too much weight into this as it is just an RC, with the full point release a week or two away. Can we go ahead with generating the RC release?