next release

[Philip Blundell]

> I've sent the patches I was able to integrate so far.  All of them were
>previously sent to the list and didn't get applied either with no comment
>whatsoever or they just got lost after a positive reply (in the Ian's
>days). 

Thanks for sending these again.  Since there are a few others outstanding as 
well, I've decided to hold off on making the branch for a few days.  Let's 
re-assess the situation early next week, say on Tuesday; that might give you 
time to finish up your other changes too.

p.