Hey all,

It's release day, and here's v2021.07-rc1. There's a few things I hope to see a PR for still, and I've talked with Marek about the LTO series off-list (and I want to get that in for this release still). That said, as always, I leave what comes in at this point to the discretion of the custodians making the PRs.

In terms of a changelog, git log --merges v2021.04..v2021.07-rc1 contains what I've pulled but as always, better PR messages and tags will provide better results here.

I do have my reminders setup for doing -rc releases every other Monday from here on out and final release on July 5th, 2021. Thanks all!