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To remedy this, and get us onto the master branch in anticipation of a v2.0.0 release, I propose a v1.8.0 release, the **final** non-support-related release in the v1.x line.\r\n\r\n### the proposed plan\r\n##### actions\r\n\r\n(eugh, accidentally overwritten by changelog!)\r\n\r\n##### outcomes\r\n\r\n* Master is the new development branch.\r\n* There is no `v2.x` branch. It will be cut once a v3.0.0 release is made to prevent having to constantly update it to match master.\r\n* All existing PRs will target the wrong branch. Or, more charitably, they'll target an older branch than they intended. I will make an effort to tag these PRs with a tag – `targets-master` might be best?\r\n* We should follow up with commits to update the documentation and build tooling, if need be.\r\n* Bug and security fixes *should* be the only PRs landed in the `v1.x` branch.\r\n\r\n##### questions\r\n\r\n* Should we wait for any other commits to make it into v1.x before switching to master / preparing for the v2.x release?\r\n* @rvagg / @iojs/build – is there anything that needs to be done to the release tooling to account for the branch switch?\r\n\r\nThe proposed changelog:\r\n* [[`431673ebd1`](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/commit/431673ebd1)] - **buffer**: fast-case for empty string in byteLength (Jackson Tian) [#1441](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/1441)\r\n* [[`91943a99d5`](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/commit/91943a99d5)] - **build**: use %PYTHON% instead of python (Rod Vagg) [#1444](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/1444)\r\n* [[`c7769d417b`](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/commit/c7769d417b)] - **build**: Expose xz compression level (Johan Bergström) [#1428](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/1428)\r\n* [[`a530b2baf1`](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/commit/a530b2baf1)] - **build**: fix error message in configure (Shigeki Ohtsu) [#1389](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/1389)\r\n* [[`92dfb794f9`](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/commit/92dfb794f9)] - **build**: enable ssl support on arm64 (Shigeki Ohtsu) [#1389](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/1389)\r\n* [[`7de0dcde83`](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/commit/7de0dcde83)] - **deps**: make node-gyp work with io.js (cjihrig) [#990](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/990)\r\n* [[`4870213f9e`](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/commit/4870213f9e)] - **deps**: upgrade npm to 2.8.3 (Forrest L Norvell) \r\n* [[`49bb7ded2c`](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/commit/49bb7ded2c)] - **deps**: fix git case sensitivity issue in npm (Chris Dickinson) [#1456](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/1456)\r\n* [[`4830b4bce8`](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/commit/4830b4bce8)] - **deps**: add docs to upgrade openssl (Shigeki Ohtsu) [#1389](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/1389)\r\n* [[`11bec72c87`](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/commit/11bec72c87)] - **deps**: update asm files for openssl-1.0.2a (Shigeki Ohtsu) [#1389](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/1389)\r\n* [[`53924d8ebe`](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/commit/53924d8ebe)] - **deps**: update asm Makefile for openssl-1.0.2a (Shigeki Ohtsu) [#1389](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/1389)\r\n* [[`418e839456`](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/commit/418e839456)] - **deps**: update openssl.gyp/gypi for openssl-1.0.2a (Shigeki Ohtsu) [#1389](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/1389)\r\n* [[`02f12ab666`](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/commit/02f12ab666)] - **deps**: update opensslconf.h for 1.0.2a (Shigeki Ohtsu) [#1389](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/1389)\r\n* [[`eb7a23595f`](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/commit/eb7a23595f)] - **deps**: add x32 and arm64 support for opensslconf.h (Shigeki Ohtsu) [#1389](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/1389)\r\n* [[`033a663127`](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/commit/033a663127)] - **deps**: replace all headers in openssl (Shigeki Ohtsu) [#1389](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/1389)\r\n* [[`ae8831f240`](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/commit/ae8831f240)] - **deps**: backport openssl patch of alt cert chains 1 (Shigeki Ohtsu) [#1389](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/1389)\r\n* [[`71316c46d9`](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/commit/71316c46d9)] - **deps**: fix asm build error of openssl in x86_win32 (Shigeki Ohtsu) [#1389](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/1389)\r\n* [[`d293a4f096`](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/commit/d293a4f096)] - **deps**: fix openssl assembly error on ia32 win32 (Fedor Indutny) [#1389](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/1389)\r\n* [[`e4872d7405`](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/commit/e4872d7405)] - **deps**: upgrade openssl to 1.0.2a (Shigeki Ohtsu) [#1389](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/1389)\r\n* [[`a1c9ef3142`](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/commit/a1c9ef3142)] - **deps, build**: add support older assembler (Shigeki Ohtsu) [#1389](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/1389)\r\n* [[`76f219c128`](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/commit/76f219c128)] - **doc**: Document forced pushing with git (Johan Bergström) [#1420](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/1420)\r\n* [[`12e51d56c1`](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/commit/12e51d56c1)] - **doc**: add Addon API WG (Rod Vagg) [#1226](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/1226)\r\n* [[`7956a13dad`](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/commit/7956a13dad)] - **http**: logically respect maxSockets (fengmk2) [#1242](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/1242)\r\n* [[`5b844e140b`](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/commit/5b844e140b)] - **module**: fix style (Roman Reiss) [#1453](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/1453)\r\n* [[`3ad82c335d`](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/commit/3ad82c335d)] - **(SEMVER-MINOR)** **module**: handle NODE_PATH in require('.') (Roman Reiss) [#1363](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/1363)\r\n* [[`cd60ff0328`](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/commit/cd60ff0328)] - **net**: add fd into listen2 debug info (Jackson Tian) [#1442](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/1442)\r\n* [[`10e31ba56c`](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/commit/10e31ba56c)] - **(SEMVER-MINOR)** **node**: allow multiple arguments passed to nextTick (Trevor Norris) [#1077](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/1077)\r\n* [[`116c54692a`](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/commit/116c54692a)] - **openssl**: fix keypress requirement in apps on win32 (Shigeki Ohtsu) [#1389](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/1389)\r\n* [[`62f5f4cec9`](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/commit/62f5f4cec9)] - **src**: remove duplicate byteLength from Buffer (Jackson Tian) [#1438](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/1438)\r\n* [[`51d0808c90`](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/commit/51d0808c90)] - **stream**: remove duplicated expression (Yazhong Liu) [#1444](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/1444)\r\n* [[`deb9d23d7b`](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/commit/deb9d23d7b)] - **test**: fix error message check for openssl-1.0.2a (Shigeki Ohtsu) [#1389](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/1389)\r\n* [[`ca8c9ec2c8`](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/commit/ca8c9ec2c8)] - **win,node-gyp**: optionally allow node.exe/iojs.exe to be renamed (Bert Belder) [#1266](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/1266) \r\n\r\ncc @iojs/tc @iojs/collaborators"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/iojs/io.js/issues/comments/94126144","html_url":"https://github.com/iojs/io.js/issues/1436#issuecomment-94126144","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/iojs/io.js/issues/1436","id":94126144,"user":{"login":"chrisdickinson","id":37303,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/37303?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/chrisdickinson","html_url":"https://github.com/chrisdickinson","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/chrisdickinson/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/chrisdickinson/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/chrisdickinson/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/chrisdickinson/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/chrisdickinson/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/chrisdickinson/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/chrisdickinson/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/chrisdickinson/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/chrisdickinson/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-04-18T04:49:56Z","updated_at":"2015-04-18T04:49:56Z","body":"I'm off for the night, folks. Will check again tomorrow morning. Thanks to everyone for their help – sorry this has been a slightly more arduous experience than expected."}}