W00t! 5.3.0 stable is out. Never expected it to take this long, but its a lesson to keep faithful to the "release early, release often mantra" in the future. At some point a branch can just get too big, that it becomes close to impossible to release it. While I do appreciate the various thank you (or in the case of backslash haters "drop dead") emails, I want to highlight that all I really did is take over the tasks that require at most a bit of patience and certainly no technical skill (well I did have to update a few websites, but even there I needed Hannes to fix all my typos).

So Johannes was the one who was especially in the last few weeks laboring over tons of patches and bug reports and sleeping less and less as we got closer to the actual release date. Pierre was of course also a huge help in this process .. and of course the countless developers that worked on the actual code that you all can now download and play with.

Now I am not saying that 5.3.0 hasn't eaten up my share of time. I am very thankful to my employer Liip that let me spend time on all of this. A bit of free time also went into 5.3.0, which I hope to now direct towards my music career a bit more :)

Wooaaa! So awesome! Thank you to all contributors for this sooo expected release.

Very good work...except for the goto operator^^

Nice, can't wait! Thanks for spending your time on this.

Thanks for all your great works on it.

Great work Lukas! Much thanks.