I doubt that there will be a 2.1.9... unless there's a good Samaritan that fixes a lot of the issues and supplies it. I know Raphael, et al is concentrating on 3.
I don't think this is on the feature list for 3.0... basically the problem is there's just so much work needed just to migrate the current features to the new structure that "new" features are low priority.
Maybe 3.1... (or sooner, if you do a good implimentation that Raphael likes)... [originally posted on jforum.net by monroe]