We should not wait too long with 1.6.1, since 1.6.0 has introduced some major issues (as expected). In general, I'd like to concentrate on ironing out the critical and major bugs (quite some work has already been done) and make 1.6.1 a bugfix-release only.
Below a list of bugs that should be addressed. Furthermore, there are still a number of unconfirmed critical bugs on bugzilla (mainly on Windows). It would help if some windows user could try if they are reproducible and preferably provide a backtrace (reproducible critical bugs should be targetted to 1.6.1). Finally, I'm not sure I completely parsed all Berlin activity. So please let me know if there are outstanding fixes that need to/could be backported. 5046 cri shift select makes lyx assert when cursor follow scrollba... 5068 cri Assertion when clicking on the title of the document 5504 cri Hangs on large shift+up selection 4346 cri Synchronizing insets asserts when two windows open 5389 cri LyX crashes when reloading document on OS X 5514 cri loading emergency save of master document can crash lyx 5539 cri Freeze when not being able to open child document 5392 cri Assertion in InsetMathGrid 5540 cri Crash in MathAtom on Undo. 4464 maj Missing autoscroll when selecting by mouse drag 5507 maj Full screen hangs LyX when no file is opened 5489 maj Language switch in the same line fails to output LaTeX => patch by Enrico available 5533 maj Extended.lyx doesn't compile under Windows => probably a hyperref bug, but we might need to work around that 5238 nor LyX 1.6 fails with non-ascii chars in path (on Windows) Jürgen