[Linuxptp-users] Quarterly release schedule

[Richard C. <ric...@gm...>]

Dear linuxptp users and developers,

Moving forward I am planning on making quarterly releases.  The next
target dates are as follows.

September 5 2023
December  5 2023
March     5 2024
June      5 2024

Inspired by Miroslav's wonderful linuxptp-testsuite, for yesterday's
release I developed a hardware in the loop (HIL) test framework.
Previously I had had a collection of smoke tests in the form of notes
with hardware setup, command lines, and expected results, and running
the tests was a major chore.

With the HIL framework in place, I am able run the smoke tests very
easily, and that allows me to release the software with confidence.

I think the version numbering will continue with 4.1, 4.2, and so on.
We can bump the major version to 5 when we get to 4.12.

Thanks,
Richard