Good news from Eli Zaretskii: The first release candidate for Emacs 29.1 is available. This is, of course, the final stage of the prerelease cycle. Zaretskii says that if there are no problems with the release candidate, Emacs 29.1 will be released next week. That’s good news indeed.
I’m sure this release is stable and safe for even the most conservative Emacsers so if you can, help Zaretskii and the other developers with the final testing. As always, much thanks to all the developers for the huge amount of work that went into preparing this release.