The plan to do a Beta 2 has been canceled at the urging of Robert Ramey, Eric Niebler, Paul Bristow, and others. We will stick to more-or-less the same schedule, but do a final release rather than a Beta 2 release. Please complete all merges to branches/release by 9 PM, Friday, November 13th, US Eastern time (02:00, Nov. 14 UTC) That's a day earlier than expected, but will be a lot more convenient for me if we can hold to it. Thanks, --Beman