I've been heads-down working on xpay. We've only a month to the next release, so pressure is building. Lagrang3 has been giving great feedback on the askrene APIs (the core: getroutes is now about 16x faster than it was!), as he adapts renepay, and I've been writing xpay as clean-slate. We're now pretty happy with it, and it's been a delight to collaborate. I've also checked a snapshot of mainnet into master, for more accurate testing, using my new topology compressor (500k!). It's school holidays here so I've had less time than usual to code, but I'm still cautiously optimistic we will make the next release, though as an experimental option...