just in case you don't check the PEP obsessively like i do (i'm really excited for 2.5!), the new release dates are:
rc 1: August 18, 2006 [planned] final: September 12, 2006 [planned] although in the Abstract it still shows August 19...where can that be reported? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list