We can release snapshots from master now, we just rarely have need to do so. Generally we commit a set of patches just to do a release.

Is the SNAPSHOT build/deploy no longer run automatically like it used to every time there were commits to master?

(I have long had a :master alias in my user deps.edn to enable testing against the "nightly" builds -- and several of my OSS projects test against multiple Clojure versions including :master)

It’s no longer automatic

It’s fairly rare that it’s different from last release

Usually we commit a bunch of patches, and then do a release

You're not committing to master outside of releases as much as you used to, it's true. Is that ever likely to change back? Just thinking I might as well remove :master from my CI builds and just track :1.12 manually as each new release appears...

don't know

prediction is difficult, especially about the future

Heh, fair enough. Certainly, testing against :master these days is a bit of a waste of time 🙂