upip - Please ensure it can install library modules compatible with official MicroPython (either via an alternative version or a command line arg).

Please include correct copyright information about files I created or made substantial contributions to, as well as to the whole project, pull requests #4787 & #4363 .

It would be great to have v1.11 in a condition to facilitate productive development with the new PYBD boards. I saw one PR #4669 related to this. Perhaps there are other issues and PRs that fit into this category? Are there step-by-step docs describing how to make a build?

What do you think? There will be a lot PYBDs coming into developer hands - it would be cool to make it easy for people to get started and contribute.

It will be nice to have stable network.PPP module

It would be great to have v1.11 in a condition to facilitate productive development with the new PYBD boards.

The reason PYBD support is not merged yet is because I wanted that to be the focus of the next-next release (v1.12). The upcoming v1.11 already has enough new stuff in it, and merging big changes for PYBD will possibly lead to regressions to existing code which need time to be addressed. So in the interest of cutting a stable release ASAP, I don't want to merge any PYBD related items yet.

It will be nice to have stable network.PPP module

Unfortunately this is not possible right now. It's a really difficult thing and needs someone who has the hardware, expertise and time to look into making it work. If you can look into it yourself and make some progress improving it that would be really great.

I'm not sure what kind of timeframe we're looking at but I intend to make a few improvements to the ESP32 docs in the next week. Mostly issues we noticed shortly after the 1.10 release. Shouldn't be a showstopper for 1.11 though.

I'm not sure what kind of timeframe we're looking at

A release is imminent.

Ok... v1.11 was tagged in 6f75c4f

When updating the Download pages, please update the Pyboard D binaries too.

please update the Pyboard D binaries too.

Ok, that's now done. Docs are updated (except for a PDF build error, to be fixed) and esp-extra-scripts branch is force pushed.

Please include correct copyright information about files I created or made substantial contributions to, as well as to the whole project, pull requests #4787 & #4363 .

What's the reason for not including this in the release?

Sorry if the question is dumb, but it is not possible to just use the gsm module done by loboris on his fork?