[zware]

This release has had a bumpy path towards actual release on PyPI, but does have RC wheels available on GitHub now. Prompted by @vstinner, I checked the diff between v4.3.0 and v4.4.0rc1 to see whether there are any database migrations to worry about with this update. It does not look like there are any real changes to the database, so a rollback to v4.3.0 should be safe.

[vstinner]

LGTM.

(...) I checked the diff between v4.3.0 and v4.4.0rc1 to see whether there are any database migrations to worry about with this update. It does not look like there are any real changes to the database, so a rollback to v4.3.0 should be safe.

In that case, count me in: we can downgrade from 4.4.0rc1 to 4.3.0 if things didn't go as expected.

[vstinner]

That's quite ugly 😬 I hope that buildbot will recover their PyPI account soon, so we can avoid that.

[encukou]

LGTM. I'm taking a DB backup just in case.
@zware, should I do it in the morning (in ~16h), or would you prefer waiting until both continents are awake?

[zware]

I don't expect fireworks, so I'm fine with you going ahead on your time, or merging once your backup is done since I'll be paying attention for the rest of the day.

[encukou]

The backup is taking a long time, so I guess my morning it is.