I don't think there's much interest in merging any of the patches that are currently in the STATUS, so I'm intending to a roll a 1.3.x release Friday for testing/voting. With a release next week.
Unfortunately testing 1.3.x is more painful than it used to be, and so far I haven't managed to get 1.3.x to pass a clean suite of tests on *any* platform - but I can at least make sure that there are no regressions. With some massaging I can get to 96% coverage on Linux and FreeBSD, and 92% coverage on Solaris. Another interesting problem is that 1.3.x's configure/apaci doesn't actually work with dash - so the tarball refuses to build out of the box on Ubuntu and Debian. Nice. -- Colm