I think we're overdue for another release, and we have a lot of nice features and bug fixes that people should start using. This includes UDFs, BLOBs, unordered sequences, improved type safety, initial compiler speed up changes, 2GB+ file support, and much more. And all non work-in-progress pull requests have been merged.
The only outstanding issue I'm aware of is a potential performance degradation in 2.5.0, but after some discussions it sounds like that is likely related to the spectre/meltdown patches, and not recent code changes. And we likely won't know for sure until after the new year. So I suggest that we start the process to release 2.5.0 from the current state of Daffodil, hopefully with the dev@daffodil.a.o and general@incubator.a.o voting finishing and releasing sometime in early January. If it turns out there is a legitimate performance degradation, we can fix that and issue a point release. Any thoughts/objections? If not, I'll volunteer to be the release manager and start the process on Monday. - Steve
