The tentative code freeze date for 4.2.1 is 21st October. We want to make a timely release of 4.2.1 so that this does not interfere with the following major release, Felton.
Following filter gives the list of tickets that are being worked upon for 4.2.1: https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?filter=12325207 If some critical fix has been missed in above filter, please bring it to notice. Also help is required to close the open tickets. -abhi