We are planning to start a new "Stable" branch in about one to two weeks time in preparation for a new release. This new release will consist of all packages.
I would like to ask all developers to be conservative with your checkins until that time. This does not mean you're not allowed to check in any fixes or new features, just that I would like to urge you to make extra sure that your changes work. Also, by checking in any changes before we create this new branch, you commit yourself to making sure that the features work flawlessly in two weeks' time.
This new release will not contain many new features. It is mostly a bug-fix release with some new stuff. We wanted to do a partial release, but can't because of slight incompatibilities between the current Development and Stable branches, so we need to release either nothing or everything. We've chosen everything.
By the way, this is independent from the SQL bug fix release which is going to be released today (and hence will be superseded in a few weeks time).