[R-sig-ME] Beware flying pigs

[Ben Bolker]

The lme4 developers are happy to announce a scheduled release of lme4
version 1.0 (!!). We plan a feature freeze on July 8 and a release on
August 1.

We strongly encourage all users, and especially downstream package
maintainers, to try out the development version and post issues at
<https://github.com/lme4/lme4/issues>, or report them to
lme4-authors at r-project.org . (Discussing them on this list is also
encouraged, but please e-mail or post an issue as well.)  Downstream
package maintainers are also encouraged to check
<http://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://github.com/lme4/lme4/blob/master/misc/pkgtests/lme4_compat_report.html>.

See
<https://github.com/lme4/lme4/blob/master/misc/notes/release_notes.md>
for release notes, including instructions for installing via
install_github() or from the http://lme4.r-forge.r-project.org/repos
repository.

  Ben Bolker, on behalf of lme4-authors