Icy? What that means is that although it’s not outright frozen, the only changes to SimplePie will be in the form of last-minute fixes and tweaks as we get ready to go live with an official Beta 3 release. We’ll be focusing on bug testing as opposed to bug fixing at this point.

If your bug or feature request didn’t make it into this round, don’t worry. We’ll soon be releasing very frequent release candidates in an effort to patch bugs and resolve issues leading up to our 1.0 release. There were a TON of bugs reported on Beta 2, and we’ve gotten to as many of them as we can up to this point, but we need to get a new release out soon, so some things must be left for the next release. If you have questions about what we’ve got on our roadmap as far as features, fixes, and bugs for the upcoming releases, please check out our Development page for more information.

If those of you who are using the development builds think that there’s an outstanding issue with SimplePie that is serious enough to hold back the release, please post about it in the Trunk Builds forum with [BLOCKER] in the subject line. Make sure that you’re using the absolute latest development build before you post, and be prepared to either fight for the blocker status, or come with a patch to fix it. We like patches. We’ll review the ones marked BLOCKER, and if the workload required to fix the bug before this release is justified, we’ll add it to our Beta 3 checklist.

Thank you again to all of you who use SimplePie! We’re working as hard as we can to make it better and better with each new release, and it’s people who report bugs to the forums who help us accomplish that. 🙂