The 2.1.x branch contains imho enough important bug fixes for a new release: 2.1.6.
What do you think of a release by the end of september? The only thing currently missing is merging all the changes we did to the head into the branch. This page http://wiki.apache.org/cocoon/MergingBranches lists all remaining parts. Carsten Carsten Ziegeler Open Source Group, S&N AG http://www.s-und-n.de http://www.osoco.net/weblogs/rael/
