The 2.38 branch has been created.

[Nick Clifton]

Hi Palmer,

> Sorry for the extremely late notice, but we just found that we'd missed the fix for this version checking issue.  I've posted a patch, as Nelson pointed out in that thread 
> <https://sourceware.org/pipermail/binutils/2022-February/119684.html> we're hoping it's not too late for 2.38 -- no big deal if it is, though.

Nelson has already pinged me about this.  If you can get the patch in today
(Tue Feb 8) then it should be OK.  I hoping to make the release tomorrow...

Cheers
   Nick