== Progress == * Validation - patch reviews (Jenkins jobs, abe) mainly for the release process

* Backports - resubmitted the pending ones - started looking at v8.2 backports

* GCC - resumed PR 67591 (ARM v8 Thumb IT blocks deprecated)

* arm-neon-tests - small update to support clang, as requested by Chromium

* misc (conf-calls, meetings, emails, ....) - catching up after holidays

== Next == - monitor trunk regressions - pr 67591 - release scripts - backports