Hello World! After some short discussion with Dries, I'd like to let you know, that I plan to release a beta 1 on next Monday (that is 3rd, September), or very close to that. This should help us either get a second beta or an RC by the time for DrupalCon, but this definitely depends on *you*. In the past weeks, the RTBC queue was 4-8 patches long, and there were important patches committed, like the update.php fixups. If you are interested in having a Drupal 6 release sooner then later, then please help concentrate on fixing bugs, review existing patches, move the ones which are ready to the RTBC state. If you think that there are definitely important issues, which might not be possible to fix after the beta is released (ie. because they involve at least small bits of database or API modifications), then please let me know the issue links. If you'd like to drum up interest/reviewers for the issues, then post them here in public, otherwise send them my way. If anyone sees show stoppers, don't hesitate to tell. It would also be helpful, if someone would be able to collect a list of new features and cool modifications for a beta release post on the frontpage. The changelog is a good start/reference. We should make more people excited about this beta (because it is awesome :), so we get more feedback, and a more stable release at the end. No patching knowledge required, to write this up :) Thanks to everyone involved with stabilizing this release, your work is highly appreciated! Gabor