Is there a new Linuxcnc release in the wings ?

Referencing this post forum.linuxcnc.org/29-forum-announcement...-9-6-released#336514 is there a possibility of a 2.9.7 release or something along those lines.
The reason I ask as I have been working on trying to create an ISO that doesn't suffer from the "raspi-firmware" issue. And I would like to have a dialogue with regards to releasing a 2.9.x ISO.

Certainly seems that way.

Aciera literally stated there would be another release, did he not?

But when?

langdons wrote:

Certainly seems that way.

Aciera literally stated there would be another release, did he not?

But when?

Not helpful, I was looking for a definite answer. Not the words of someone whose words soothe them.

@Admins

I feel I overstepped my position and would like this topic deleted.

But Andy does have a good point, doesn't he? It would be much better if this was fixed in the official linuxcnc distribution.
Perhaps you can open an issue at linuxcnc github and see it you can get your fixes incorporated?

unknown wrote:

@Admins

I feel I overstepped my position and would like this topic deleted.

Huh?

WTF?

Why?

Coordination is a good thing always, all LinuxCNC stuff should be in the official LinuxCNC repo, not some random offshoot side project fork.

That doesn't always happen.
I used to distribute an ISO based on Mint 19.x & build packages for installation via apt.
Tommy has a later Mint based ISO, if memory serves me right.
There has been a couple of Raspi OS based images for the RPi platform as opposed to the Debian based image that forms the official image.

The code base used to build the current image is a fork from the linxcuc live-build repo.

In another thread I posted links to test images, based on my findings regarding the raspi-firmware issues, unfortunately no one, it would seem, downloaded and was able to test the images. It was clearly stated that they were test images only and not to be used for a production machine.

I did state in my initial thread that I wanted to open a dialogue with regards to building a new 2.9.x based ISO.

Machine Kit was a fork of Linuxcnc, worked well on a lowly powered BeagleBoneBlack (1Ghz & 512MB ram) and was able to use the in built micro controller for step & direction generation worked quite well on a 3 axis mill, unfortunately development on that project stalled.

@langdons "not some random offshoot side project fork" . Oh the irony.

Say for instance I was experimenting with building an ISO based on Trixie and found that some packages in the bookworm build aren't in the Trixie repo and
A: there is a another package that provides the same function
B: there is no equivalent for Trixie
C: a package appears to be confusing as to why it's been included
D: some packages I think maybe an idea to include
E: a file may not needed to be included

What would be the ideal way to communicate these.
BTW for the time being I had to make a temporary change to be able to install packages from the Linuxcnc repo due to the key issue.
The build was just out of curiosity to see how things go and I thought if I found anything that needed changing it may help later down the track.
I'm unsure if a pull request is the correct way to go. I apologise but my GitHub knowledge is more or less at a toddler stage.