In order to best resolve some packaging, dependency, and upgrade path issues that have come to our attention in the past week, we’re extending the release windows for the following releases to the week of May 11:

• 8.8.6 (final normal bugfix release of 8.8, which has security coverage afterward until December 2020)
• 8.9.0-rc1
• 9.0.0-rc1

The scheduled release date for 9.0.0 and 8.9.0 remains June 3. We will share another announcement with the community once 9.0.0-rc1 is available for testing.