I'm planning to make a 0.940 release in February (tentative timeline). If things go according to plan, I'd cut the release branch in the first half of February.

Here are some things that I'd like to have in the release:

• Reachability/exhaustiveness checking for match statements #12010
• Basic ParamSpec Concatenate and literal support #11847
• Make --namespace-packages the default #9636

We also need at least one typeshed sync.

Any help with the above issues would be greatly appreciated!

Please post here any issues you'd like to see fixed in the release, or PRs you'd like to have merged. After cutting the release branch, only high-priority fixes can be cherry-picked.