Hello world, it has been exactly two months since the start of the Drupal code freeze: http://drupal.org/drupal-5.0.0-code-freeze As the development cycle was only 3 months, a 2 month code freeze should have given you plenty of time to upgrade some of your themes and modules. If you haven't upgraded your modules/themes yet, I wouldn't wait too long. While I want at least 2-4 weeks of public beta testing, there are only 3 critical bugs at this point in time. http://drupal.org/project/issues? projects=3060&versions=10195,9902,9842,9753,9728,6487&categories=bug&pri orities=1&states=1,8,13,14 Chances are that we'll need fewer betas/RCs than we had for Drupal 4.7. Also, now we're in beta mode, we're going to be a lot more strict with regard to usability patches. Small usability patches and documentation improvements can still go in, but larger usability patches are likely to be postponed until Drupal 6.0. -- Dries Buytaert :: http://www.buytaert.net/