ANN Help us make RabbitMQ 3.9.0 the best release for you

[Diana Parra Corbacho]

On behalf of the RabbitMQ team we are happy to announce that we intend to release RabbitMQ 3.9.0 on 26 July 2021. While we have been testing it internally for months, with production-like workloads, we need your help to check that it is as stable and reliable as we believe it is.

This is the timeline that we have to work together on making 3.9.0 the best release for you:

Milestone	Anticipated Date	Notes
Code freeze	5 July 2021	No new features or refactorings before GA
3.9.0-rc.1 produced	9 July 2021	All artefacts built & published
3.9.0-rc.1 announced	12 July 2021	First release candidate (RC) is announced & made public for testing
3.9.0-rc.2	TBD	If new issues are reported, a new RC with fixed is made available for testing
3.9.0 produced	23 July 2021	Final release is built & published
3.9.0 announced	26 July 2021	Final release is announced & made public

The above release calendar is a point-in-time snapshot. For latest updates please refer to the Release Series page.

RabbitMQ 3.9.0-rc.1 has been made public a few days earlier than anticipated. You can start using it today: https://github.com/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-server/releases/tag/v3.9.0-rc.1

If you have any feedback for 3.9.0, you can either start a new discussion, post on the GitHub announcement or answer this thread. Many of us are around on Slack too.

Lastly, this is the moment RabbitMQ 3.9.0-rc.1 was made public:

Zen - yes, the rabbit in the picture above - also published RabbitMQ v3.6.15

Happy testing!

Diana & Zen