Hello Geode, There have been no concerns expressed so we shall go forward with cutting the Geode 1.12 branch on February 3rd, 2020 - this makes it the Monday after the SuperBowl so please have a care this week to get any relevant PRs completed.
There are many PRs in progress: (in various states of review/completion/readiness) https://github.com/apache/geode/pull/4644 https://github.com/apache/geode/pull/4641 https://github.com/apache/geode/pull/4614 https://github.com/apache/geode/pull/4642 https://github.com/apache/geode/pull/4640 https://github.com/apache/geode/pull/4639 https://github.com/apache/geode/pull/4603 https://github.com/apache/geode/pull/4643 https://github.com/apache/geode/pull/4604 https://github.com/apache/geode/pull/4606 https://github.com/apache/geode/pull/4395 https://github.com/apache/geode/pull/4638 https://github.com/apache/geode/pull/4488 https://github.com/apache/geode/pull/4627 https://github.com/apache/geode/pull/4629 https://github.com/apache/geode/pull/4429 https://github.com/apache/geode/pull/4542 https://github.com/apache/geode/pull/4387 https://github.com/apache/geode/pull/3920 https://github.com/apache/geode/pull/4234 https://github.com/apache/geode/pull/4636 https://github.com/apache/geode/pull/4637 As a reminder, only critical fixes will be allowed once the release branch is created, so it is helpful to have develop as stable as possible before branching. Thanks, Ernie