Hi everyone, ... just wanted to inform you that we are planning to start the release process for the upcoming version 1.9.0 of Fineract soon.
There have been a ton of new features, improvements and fixes since our last significant release 1.8.0 back in November (security fixes, business events, date handling, Spring Batch jobs...). You have still 2 weeks from now (until Wednesday, 8 Feb 2023) to get your suggestions and pull requests in place to be included before we open the release branch and have the official code freeze. Note: this time we'll have official release candidates as part of the release process to get stable pre releases earlier than usual into your hands instead of waiting for the entire 2 weeks for the release to finish. Opening the release branch in two weeks will mark automatically release candidate 0 (1.9.0.RC0). How many of those release candidates we'll have depends also on you and how much feedback you give, but we hope that release candidates make it a bit easier for you to do your own testing and send us feedback. You'll find a Jira ticket for this release here: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FINERACT-1874 Please make sure to mark your Jira tickets for version 1.9.0 if you want them included in this release. Cheers, Aleks
