Hi, SciPy 1.6.0 was released December 31/2020 (a bit late), a little more than 4 months ago, and I think we'd like to keep a roughly biannual release cadence. I'd like to proposed the following schedule for 1.7.0: - May 26/2021: branch 1.7.x - May 29/2021: rc1 - June 11/2021: rc2 (if needed) - June 20/2021: final release As always, it is a good idea to start tagging things that should be in the 1.7.0 release & please do help with reviewing PRs/issues that are tagged--current counts are: - PRs: 24 open with 1.7.0 milestone - issues: 8 open with 1.7.0 milestone Also great to update the release notes wiki as appropriate: https://github.com/scipy/scipy/wiki/Release-note-entries-for-SciPy-1.7.0 Thoughts/objections for the proposed schedule? The new build time dependency/transpiler, Pythran, would be a notable addition to this release, assuming that moves forward. Best wishes, Tyler