Hi,
Good to hear and great improvements!
The blog link was stale for me. This worked:
http://blog.geoserver.org/2013/01/29/geoserver-2-3-beta-released/
Just van den Broecke - Mobile
Justin Deoliveira <jdeolive@…1501…> wrote:
Artifacts up:
http://gridlock.opengeo.org/geoserver/release/2.3-RC1/
And jira released. Draft blog post here:
http://blog.geoserver.org/?p=1341&preview=true
It is pretty terse 
Please expand as you see fit.
If no issues found will push everything on Monday.
-Justin
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Justin Deoliveira
OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org
Enterprise support for open source geospatial.