Argh, I haven't looked at the patch. If it really does change the Cocoon core class and not just only the servlet than -1 for now. We can intregrate it right after the release.
No, sorry, this information was wrong. It touches only the servlet:
Index: CocoonServlet.java
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RCS file: /home/cvspublic/cocoon-2.1/src/java/org/apache/cocoon/servlet/CocoonServlet.java,v
Joerg
