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Rocket.Chat's 8.7 release train is six candidates deep with almost nothing user-facing in them.

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◆Current state
Rocket.Chat is an open-source team chat and collaboration platform, and its feed right now is entirely the 8.7.0 release-candidate train — six tags between July 23 and August 6. Nearly every one carries the identical body: a Meteor version bump and updated core-typings and rest-typings dependencies. The engine floor is unchanged across all six (Node 22.22.3, Deno 2.3.1, MongoDB 8.0, Apps-Engine 1.65.1-rc.0), so the platform substrate is settled and the remaining work is shakeout.
◆Where it's heading
This is what a release looks like while it stabilizes: the substantive changes landed before rc.1, and the tags since are dependency churn with one real fix among them. Read the cadence carefully — six tags in two weeks measures release-candidate activity, not shipped capability, and the actual 8.7.0 feature list will arrive with the GA notes rather than accumulate across these candidates. The pattern repeats each minor version, so the RC tags are best treated as progress markers on one release.
◆Prediction
8.7.0 GA is the obvious next tag. The gaps between candidates have not tightened in a way that dates it — rc.1 and rc.2 came an hour apart, then eight days to rc.3 — so the remaining blocker list is not readable from the notes.

◆Recent moves

  1. 5d ago

    8.7.0-rc.6: dependency bumps only

    The sixth candidate for 8.7.0 carries only a Meteor version bump and updated core-typings and rest-typings packages, with no described user-visible change. It continues the stabilization run rather than adding to it.

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  2. 7d ago

    8.7.0-rc.5: dependency bumps only

    Identical in substance to rc.6 and rc.3 — a Meteor bump and matching typings packages, no functional change described. Three of the six candidates in this window carry exactly this body.

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  3. 9d ago

    8.7.0-rc.4 makes audio attachments seekable again

    The one candidate in the current train with a user-visible change: audio attachments can be scrubbed with the progress slider again. It is a small fix, but it is the only evidence in six tags that anything besides dependency bumps is moving toward 8.7.0.

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  4. 12d ago

    8.7.0-rc.3: dependency bumps only

    Another contentless candidate — Meteor bump plus typings. It follows an eight-day gap after rc.2, the longest pause in the train.

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  5. 20d ago

    8.7.0-rc.2: dependency bumps only

    Tagged under an hour after rc.1 with the same Meteor and typings bumps, which suggests a build or publish correction rather than a substantive iteration.

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  6. 20d ago

    8.7.0-rc.1 opens the 8.7 candidate train

    The first candidate visible in this window, and like most of its successors it describes only dependency updates. The substantive 8.7.0 work landed before this tag, so the release notes here understate what the version actually contains.

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