Eli Zaretskii writes that he’s cut the release branch for Emacs 28.1 in preparation for the upcoming pretest. He asks that everyone tracking Emacs development switch to the new branch so that it can get as much testing as possible.
Eli is anticipating that the first pretest will be released in a few weeks. If you’re like me, you want it right now but the reality is, as I’ve said before, that Eli and the other developers are working hard to give us the best possible release and in the end we’ll be glad we waited. In the mean time, you can help by compiling and using the release branch to help with the bug squashing.