This is a day late, but as previously announced, Parrot is now feature-frozen. I'll cut a release next Saturday, March 15, unless things look good enough to go before then.
"Feature freeze" means bugfixes and new tests are still ok. The only currently in-progress feature that I'm aware of is the conversion of open to PIO, and unless it's more disruptive than it sounds, I'd say it lands into the bugfix category. :-) As for the code name -- I'm personally leaning towards the "Juice" suggestion. I'm not sure why, but it just sounds kinda cool. And it does fit well with the -Oj flag. "Parrot -- now with extra juice!" Or something. Opinions?