The branch time for the 2.44 release is approaching

[Benjamin Drung]

On Mon, 2025-01-06 at 09:49 +0000, Nick Clifton wrote:
> Hi Guys,
> 
>    I am planning to cut the 2.44 branch on Sunday 19 January
>    with a view to making the release on Sunday 2 February.
> 
>    So if you have any features that you want to see in the
>    next release and which are not already in the development
>    sources now is the time to submit them and/or press for a
>    review.

I would love to see
https://inbox.sourceware.org/binutils/20241217152746.98360-1-benjamin.drung@canonical.com/
landed. It adds support for percent-encoded JSON in --package-metadata
to gold. The equivalent patch for ld landed weeks ago. It would be nice
to have ld and gold get the same feature in the upcoming release.

-- 
Benjamin Drung
Debian & Ubuntu Developer