"Following RC4, we will further restrict the patches we commit to severe bugs or regressions and documentation fixes only, at committer discretion. So, if you have any allowed RC changes underway, plan to complete them by November 12."
"Based on our experience with our successful release candidates, we are confident to announce that Drupal 8.0.0 will be released on November 19, 2015! Until then, we will continue publishing Drupal 8 release candidates with the latest fixes."
Hat tip to the great folks over at Chapter Three. They have hired two more Drupal 8 core developers. But more than that Nica Lorber makes a very strong case for the benefits of hiring core developers. I hope we see more companies doing likewise.
With all the well deserved praise of Drupal 8 good ole Drupal 7 can be overshadowed. In this post David Rothstein tells us about some new features in this latest release of Drupal 7. Yes, this is not a typo. New features in Drupal 7.