I'm release manager this week. I'm prepping 2.18.0.dev3 currently but I had a look over the stable branches and fwict: + 2.14.x: https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/commits/2.14.x Has unwanted extra commits that will never be released + 2.15.x: https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/commits/2.15.x Has unwanted extra commits that will never be released (See: https://pantsbuild.slack.com/archives/C18RRR4JK/p1686875909801059?thread_ts=1686875896.436239&cid=C18RRR4JK) + 2.16.x: https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/commits/2.16.x Has no changes of import to release + 2.17.x: https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/commits/2.17.x Has only 1 change of import to release: https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/commit/f6e6bc9d25b074dd05cdd78e996360464d983236 but also has a showstopper in https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/issues/18961 that is not yet fixed (See: https://pantsbuild.slack.com/archives/C0D7TNJHL/p1687885448169229) If I have that right, it looks like there is no need for any stable branch releases this week and just 2.18.0.dev3 needs to go out.