Eli Zaretskii has announced the start of the Emacs 30 release cycle. What that means is that Eli has created the emacs-30 release branch and restricted commits to it to bug fixes that don’t affect low level code. This is the start of the process where what will become Emacs 30 starts undergoing refinement and polish.
Eli says that he hopes to release the first pretest in about a month. After that, barring any show stoppers, the release of Emacs 30.1 won’t be far behind.
If you don’t mind living on the bleeding edge, download and install the emacs-30 branch and report any problems to the development team. You’ll be helping all of us get a better Emacs 30.1 faster by doing so.
I know I always say this but it can’t be said enough: thanks to Eli and the other devs who work so hard to benefit us all. I’d double their salary but it would stay the same.