Hi, I was planning to release 2.5.0-beta-2 probably first thing next week. If you have any upcoming changes that you want in the release, please get them in now or let me know if that time frame causes a problem.
It will depend on whether we get much feedback on the beta but I would anticipate moving towards the first RC release in the next month or two. It would be good to get that release out the door so we can increase focus on 2.6/3! :-) Cheers, Paul.