Due to the outage at SourceForge, the creation of the release branches has to be postponed until our repositories are back online.
I don't have any information beyond the official note from SourceForge sfnet_ops and can just sit and wait as anybody else while the operators push in the wheelbarrows with backup tapes.
We have dismissed the idea of preparing the release branches and release candidates offline because of the many manual steps required. Instead we will shorten the release-candidate period and still plan for a release around Aug. 17th.
Torsten
(inofficial,self proclaimed and de-facto release manager)