The past month we have been hard at work getting ready for the Drupal 4.2.0 release; we have been squashing bugs and made small improvements all over the map. We are now in the final phase of the code freeze which means we are down to a few remaining issues that need to be resolved. If you haven't already, please help us test. Report back your findings in the comments below or, if you found a bug, file a bug report.

The release candidate is available at:

http://www.drupal.org/drupal/drupal-4.2.0-rc.tgz

If you are using CVS, please take note that I created a DRUPAL-4-2-0 branch in our main repository. This branch will be used to harden the Drupal 4.2.0 code base before and after the release. As a consequence the HEAD branch is opened up for development. There are already a dozen of interesting patches waiting to be applied.

I'll create a DRUPAL-4-2-0 branch for the contributions repository as soon we made a change that could break backward compatibility.