Official 2.9 Release ?

So we are almost a year from the  2.8.4 release and now we have Debian Bookworm out in the wild so I am curious
when will the official release on linuxcnc.org site be linuxcnc 2.9.0 ?

I don't think there is anybody who can answer that question. The release manager has resigned a while ago and there are still issues slated to be fixed before the 'official' release.
I'm not sure it really matters as I have been using 2.9 for quite a while now, official release or not.
Frankly I would just forget about it for the time being.

I'm not one of the developers but from what I can see there is 6 issues labelled "2.9 must fix".
I'm trying to contribute 2 things.
1.  A fork of the linuxcnc  installer that uses Debian Bookworm  ref: github.com/rodw-au/linuxcnc-live-build
2. A Raspberry Pi  image buiilder that uses Bookworm and the official Pi kernels.

Hopefully #2 can close one or two of those issues.