Plan for CTools 7.x-1.10 release

We may need to re-title this as 7.x-1.11 -- 1.10 is most likely going to be a bug release to fix regressions introduced by the core SA that we didn't catch in testing.

IE: https://www.drupal.org/node/2554253#comment-10239841

Looks like that other issue caused by a core SA wasn't an issue in ctools after all! renaming back to 1.10.

Is there anything blocking us from tagging 7.x-1.10? In other words: is 7.x-1.x-dev unstable? If it's stable, please tag a new release. It's been ten months since the last one.

It's been ten months since the last one.

Not only that, there are more and more issues (and mentions) cropping up of ctools being one of the main culprits of PHP 7.0-related notices, like: #2528736: Deprecating PHP4 style constructors

The same for Payment 7.x-1.x: https://www.drupal.org/pift-ci-job/362657.

As some may have noticed, I've started going through the ctools queue in preparation for a 1.10 release.

Just a note, most likely there will be a 1.10 release AND a 1.11 release between 2-6 weeks after. Think of the 1.10 release as the beta and the subsequent 1.11 release as the stable version.

Ctools 1.10 has been released. Thanks everyone for reviewing and RTBC'ing patches!

If there are followup issues, we should add them to a 1.11 release plan.

Excellent! With a stable ctools 1.10, I can start to transition my production D7 sites away from my older Ubuntu 12.04 server to my newer 16.04 one. I've been running a few smaller/prototype sites with the dev version and they've been working great so far, but I'd been spooked about moving my larger sites over.

Thank you! :)