I don't think we should release what is scheduled to be 0.96 as 1.0.0, since I think we should give the new features time for one more release to bake. There are some features that were not tested at scale. I think we can do 0.96, and mark later releases of 0.96.x to be 1.0.0.
For HFile v3, I would not object to bring this in for later releases of 0.96.x if we cannot do timely releases. Ideally, we should continue on the major release train, and have 0.98/1.1.0 (or whatever is next) in 3-4 months or so. Then we won't have non-ending discussions of backporting and all. Enis
