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We're getting to our fifth patch release for client_golang 1.20 at #1645. We even had patch releases with 3 days differences between 1.20.1 and 1.20.2, and even two separate patch releases for data races in native histograms that were discovered with a tiny time window between them.
Those issues could easily have been caught with release candidates that people could test before we commit to a stable release. The proposal here is to do exactly that: Update our release process with release candidates :)