Let's release! Stabilization phase for version 13

[Carlos Ruiz]

Hi community,

We are again on the time to prepare and test a new release.

So, until today the version 13 has been labeled as "Development"

Today we start the freeze and the version 13 is a "Release Candidate"

Freeze means to focus exclusively in bug fixes and stabilization.
New functionalities will not be added during this freeze period (although we can make some exceptions for minor non-disruptive or very important new features).

The idea is that we are planning at least one month of stabilization, during this period the expectation is:
* plugin maintainers have time to test and synchronize their plugins with the upcoming version
* language maintainers can synchronize the translations
* community altogether have time to test new features and report potential performance and stability issues

With this in mind, during the next month we have planned also to hold a couple of community days with different activities, we are looking forward to your participation and help to make the upgrade as smooth as possible, Diego will announce soon.

Hopefully, in one month, if there are not blocker bugs reported, the version 13 (we're looking for a version name too) will be officially released (labeled as Stable), maintained during the next year, and the new version 14 for development will be created.

Regards,

Carlos Ruiz