Great news! Sean Whitton writes to announce the release of Emacs 31.1 RC1. This is the final step before the formal release of the Emacs 31 series. Whitton remarks that the developers are hoping that RC1 will be the only release candidate. I take that as a measure of their confidence in this trial release. Unless any breaking problems pop up, we can expect the official release of 31.1 imminently.
As always, we should offer up a word of thanks for the hard work of the maintainers and all the developers who have toiled so hard to bring us this latest release. If we find ourselves in the same bar as one of them, the drinks are on us.