Wayne has just tagged version 6.0.0-rc2. We believe this to be the version that will become v6 but due to having made a lot of bug fixes to the code since 6.0.0-rc1, we’d like to get more testing done before we finally tag 6.0.0 in case there are any final critical bugs that should be addressed before release.
We are now in a soft code freeze where only critical and high priority bug fixes will be addressed and only after code review by two other lead developers.
If no critical/high priority bugs are open on Monday morning (20-Dec), 6.0.0 will be tagged then and the packaging process can begin.
See wayne’s announcement here: https://www.mail-archive.com/kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net/msg39856.html
Please download the latest nightly and use it as much as you can, reporting any issues encountered (in particular any crashes or data loss) by going to Help->Report bug (you will need to create a gitlab account in order to report any issues).
Thanks to everyone that made this possible!