Greetings!
We are beginning the process of working on the 1.32 release of MediaWiki. The release is currently scheduled for Nov. We plan to create the REL1_32 branch on October 16 and to generate the first release candidate, so we will be requesting "pencils down" on October 15.
In the meantime, if you have any open Phabricator tasks tagged with mw-1.32-release [0], please check to see if they are indeed blockers for the release. If not, please remove the mw-1.32-release tag from them. Conversely, if there are any blockers that are not tagged with mw-1.32.release, please tag them. Please feel free to reach out to me if you have any questions about this.
We will be in the normal patch master + backport process from October 16 until the release in Nov.
Thanks,
Greg
[0] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/mw-1.32-release/