With 63% of all tickets for WordPress 2.5 closed and a final release date of the 21st, WordPress has set loose version 2.5 in release candidate 1 status.
If you want to help out the development team in making their deadline, download RC1 (scroll to very bottom of page), join the wp-testers mailing list, and let [...]

I noticed on the milestone tracker for WordPress 2.5 that the due date has been extended out by a week. We can expect (knock on wood) the next release of WordPress on the 17th of March rather than it’s original release date of yesterday, March 10th.
I think it’s a pretty sound decision to extend [...]