[Nut-upsdev] NUT v2.8.4 coming up

[Jim Klimov]

Hello all,

  Due to some issues uncovered with NUT v2.8.3 release on one hand
(fixable, but cumbersome for packagers to extract and patch in their
recipes), and an upcoming hiatus due to vacation travels on another, I've
pushed much of the more-ambitious plan slated for NUT v2.8.4 back to
v2.8.5, and plan to release what has cropped up until now as a smaller
v2.8.4 increment, just a few months after a preceding release. This is
probably how things should be (aiming for smaller quicker releases), too :)

  Even so, it is by no means a trivial hot-fixing release - there were many
contributions that have already landed, including new drivers, updates to
existing drivers and other programs, recipes, CI tests, etc.

  While a few smaller PRs are still queued and iterated, it would be wise
of the community to run some builds of the current master against their
devices in their OS ecosystems of choice, to make sure we do not get big
facepalms within a week after a release :)

  The plan is to cut off a snapshot of the `master` branch (slightly
pre-doctored as usual) into a NUT v2.8.4 release, and so begin the v2.8.5
timeline, during the first week of August, probably before next Friday. Or
forever hold our silence (that is, until September or later).

Cheers,
Jim Klimov
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