The current target date for Birch's official release is Tues, Feb 24. If a significant number of changes are added to the release candidate branch, a new release candidate will be created and the release date will be pushed back, to give people time to test the new release candidate.
The Birch release candidate is the named-release/birch/rc branch in our git repositories, and it is based off the hotfix-2015-01-29 tag in edx-platform. Since that commit, the following pull requests have also been added (or will be added) to the release candidate.
| Number | Reason | Status |
|---|---|---|
| #6441 | upgrading Pillow for security reasons | present in RC1 |
| #6805 | updating footer copyright notice for legal reasons | present in RC1 |
| #6869 | UI bugfix for footer copyright notice | present in RC2 |
| #6841 | compatibility fix so that we can run the Birch RC tests on Jenkins | present in RC2 |
| #6936 | bugfix related to importing courses and split modulestore | present in RC2 |
| #6951 | Fix grades download in courses with cohorted content | present in RC2 |
| #6930 | improve performance | present in RC2 |
| #6873 | bugfix related to textbooks | present in RC2 |
| #6747 | bugfix in Javascript for some check/show answer buttons on problems | present in RC2 |
| #6773 | bugfixes for Recommender XBlock | present in RC2 |
| #6833 | bugfix related to split modulestore | present in RC2 |
| #6878 | bugfix for documenting upgrade requirements of payment flow | present in RC2 |
| #6818 | bugfix for ecommerce redemption codes | present in RC2 |
| #6958 | bugfix for Studio unicode error | present in RC2 |
| #6740 | better warnings around incompatibilities around content libraries | present in RC2 |
| #6984 | unicode fix | present in RC3 |
| #6892 | memory/performance fix | present in RC3 |
| #7002 | documentation updates | merged to RC branch |
| #7021 | bugfix for handling auto-reconnect mongo exceptions | merged to RC branch |