Hi all,
tomorrow I'll try to release GS 1.6.0-beta1 (provided we pass the cite tests, or at least that we are close to passing 100% of them).
If you know there may be something wrong with it, and it's very
very serious, speak up. We'll release with a few known bugs (such
as date/time handling broken in wfs 1.1) but... it's just a beta.
We'll probably have a beta2 sometimes around next week with
the new connection pooling subsystem 
Cheers
Andrea