I've tagged a 3rd release candidate (which is of course rc2, because
this week I belong to the cult of 0 based indexing). All of the blockers
I know of are fixed, and I'd consider us in "deep freeze", hopefully to
release in a week or so if there are no nasty bugs discovered.

Please test.  Debian users can grab it from Debian experimental (really
this time, previously it had to go though NEW).