On Sun, 11 Feb 2007, Mark Mitchell wrote:
However, please be mindful of the release branch freeze state in future.
One comment I would make though, is how difficult it is to discover
the 4.1 branch's current status. Neither the main page's "Current release
status" at http://gcc.gnu.org/ nor the most recently linked to status
e-mail from that page explicitly mention the/a freeze. When
reviewing/approving a recent regression patch I had to infer that since
there was mention of a release candidate but there hadn't been a full
release, we were most likely frozen. The 4.0 branch, however, is clearly
marked as frozen.