Hi all, In yesterday's community meeting we discussed the 2.0 release schedule, and concluded that we are far enough along to pick a date for the final 2.0 release. That date will be June 16 (barring any major last-minute blockers appearing of course). A quick timeline: - `maintenance/2.0.x` branch creation: March 8 - beta 1: March 12 - release candidate 1: March 30 - release candidate 2: May 12 - as of today, 37 out of 58 of the downstream packages we're currently tracking at https://github.com/numpy/numpy/issues/26191 have done a 2.0-compatible release (including all of the ones lowest in the dependency tree that we were tracking early on), and many of the others have a release planned or 2.0 fixes merged or close to being complete. We've had 2.5 months of the release process, and very few blocking issues have been opened over the last weeks. Another 3.5 weeks should be enough for most package authors who still have work to do for their own releases, as well as for end users to test their code and either fix potential issues or temporarily add `numpy<2` constraints in the relevant places. In addition to this announcement email and the notice on https://github.com/numpy/numpy/issues/24300, we will update the numpy.org website and use our Twitter and LinkedIn project accounts to announce the release date. Thank you to everyone who helped us get so close to the finish line! Cheers, Ralf