Since I believe Don is on his way to Europe, I will answer with what I think. This may be wrong though.
- The testing slowed down as the test crew got some paying work.
- ETP was broken in Oracle (this has been resolved as not releasing for now).
- A problem with PG 7.2.1 has cropped up, there is no know fix for this yet although some testing is going on. Probably the release won't support 7.2.1
I can't say when the real release will be, but I believe the current CVS is pretty much done (i.e. no schema changes). There could always be some tcl changes though.
As I said, I am not the expert on the release date so YMMV.