Hi! I've just committed the 1.4.0 RC1 release artefacts here:
https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/serf Please give them a spin. I don't actually plan to officially release the RC1, so these are not tagged but are just a snapshot from the current state of the 1.4.x branch. The only planned change for the actual release are the release date and revision in the CHANGES file. -- Brane