It now looks like the next Wordpress upgrade will arrive in March, rather than later this month, and will be issued as 2.5 rather than 2.4.
As discussed in the developer mailing list, the next release of WordPress will be in March instead of January because of the holidays and the amount of changes that will take place in the codebase as well as the admin section. The decision was made to consider 2.4 a skipped December release and move straight on to 2.5. The reasons for the change in the schedule include some good things cooking in the oven and the developers do not want this to become a rushed release.
If only developers of other applications adopted the Wordpress mantra… “the [WP] developers do not want this to become a rushed release”.
