Now "new" not "pending"

Hello all, apologies if I missed something a few months ago, but a colleague has noticed that the note for terms such as [EducationalOccupationalCredential](https://schema.org/EducationalOccupationalCredential)has changed.

It now says

> This term is in the "new" area - implementation feedback and adoption from applications and websites can help improve our definitions.
[Thing](https://schema.org/Thing)

Up until ~May this year the phrasing was:

> This term is proposed for full integration into Schema.org, [pending](https://web.archive.org/web/20230126121920/https://schema.org/docs/pending.home.html) implementation feedback and adoption from applications and websites.

Am I right inthinking that this isn't so much a change in status for these properties as a better description of their current status?

If so I welcome this change. I always felt that the phrase "pending" encouraged people to wait for something to happen before using the new terms, while Dan and colleagues were waiting for people to use the terms before taking them out of "pending".

Phil

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