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Six release candidates into 8.7, and five of them are version bumps.

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◆Current state
Rocket.Chat is six candidates deep into 8.7.0, and the visible content of that train is thin. Five of the six most recent entries carry an identical body: a Meteor package bump with internal typings following. The engine floor holds steady across the whole window at Node 22.22.3, Deno 2.3.1, MongoDB 8.0, and Apps-Engine 1.65.1-rc.0. The one substantive change in the cycle sits back in 8.7.0-rc.0, which added session identification to the device management API.
◆Where it's heading
This is a stabilization run rather than a feature cycle, and the same shape repeated in 8.6.0, whose rc.1 through rc.3 read the same way. Each cycle front-loads its minor changes into rc.0, then spends weeks on version bumps with isolated fixes folded in. For anyone reading the changelog, that means almost nothing is learnable between an rc.0 and the eventual release.
◆Prediction
Expect 8.7.0 to reach general availability with a note consolidating the rc.0 session-management change and the scattered candidate fixes; on this pattern the next real signal comes with 8.8.0-rc.0, not from the remaining 8.7 candidates.

◆Recent moves

  1. 5d ago

    8.7.0-rc.6: Meteor version bump only

    A dependency-only candidate - the Meteor package moves and internal typings follow. Nothing in it reaches a user. It is the sixth entry in the 8.7 train and adds no functional change.

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  2. 7d ago

    8.7.0-rc.5: Meteor version bump only

    Identical in substance to the candidates on either side of it, down to the engine versions. No fix or feature is listed beyond the version bump itself. It is useful only as evidence of how little this release train carries per entry.

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  3. 8d ago

    8.7.0-rc.4: audio attachments become seekable again

    The only candidate in this window carrying a user-visible change: audio attachments can be scrubbed with the progress slider again. It rides on top of the same Meteor bump as its neighbours. A small playback fix, and still the sole thing across six candidates that a user would notice.

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  4. 12d ago

    8.7.0-rc.3: Meteor version bump only

    Another version-bump-only candidate in the 8.7 sequence, with no fixes attached. The runtime and database floors are unchanged from the previous candidate. Purely internal movement toward the eventual release.

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  5. 20d ago

    8.7.0-rc.2: Meteor version bump only

    Published within an hour of rc.1 and carrying the same body, which points at release tooling rather than a batch of work. No user-facing change is described. It reinforces that candidate count is a poor proxy for progress here.

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  6. 20d ago

    8.7.0-rc.1: Meteor version bump only

    The first candidate after the substantive rc.0, and it carries only a version bump. Everything the 8.7 cycle actually changed had already landed before this point. It marks the start of the long quiet stretch that fills the rest of the window.

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