pre-release commits for 2.12

[danmar]

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We should merge the crash fixes before release.

We also still have a sizable performance regression (13% on average) which I am not sure we are already tracking. I will take a look tomorrow.

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We are dealing with at least two performance regressions. That makes bisecting a bit more difficult.

The more recent one is https://trac.cppcheck.net/ticket/11921. And the prior one appears to be https://trac.cppcheck.net/ticket/11876.

[danmar]

I think I can't delay the release much longer now unfortunately. The daca crash report looks reasonable however it's unfortunate we have open crash tickets..

[danmar]

I think I can't delay the release much longer now unfortunately

I assume there is no open PR with some crash fix right now.

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I assume there is no open PR with some crash fix right now.

Yes. And I think the performance regressions are being tracked. I pulled a copy of the report for post mortem.

[danmar]

Yes. And I think the performance regressions are being tracked. I pulled a copy of the report for post mortem.

ok. I plan to tag a "release candidate 1" asap. I am not sure how to define the version number for 2.12-rc1 properly in cmake/versions.cmake etc.. but for now I am thinking that I will set it to 2.12.0... I will git tag it as "2.12-rc1" to start with and if it works well in testing I will git tag it as "2.12.0" later..

if you have better ideas do not hesitate to share it with me :-)

I set the versions here: 6fc2d80

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#4751 (comment) for a prior suggestion on how to do the versioning.