I am guessing that they will probably release a RC within the next month or so. I read that even after RC1, there would be other "Updates, Patches, Service Packs" to follow. More than likely, they would resolve all the Critical and Major tickets before the release and then add the minor and requests to the patches mentioned above. This would allow them to have at least have a RC version out there.

Of course this is my assumption, which we all know what that means.