All, It didn't look like the 4.0 branch had been created yet, but we had discussed creating it today. I went ahead and created it just now.
Unless there are serious objections to the branch having been created, I guess we're considering this branch to be the working copy that we should all be testing / stabilizing. Please yell if someone was expecting this to be done later. Otherwise, please make sure that any 4.0 bug fixes are patched in both master and the 4.0 branch! -chip