I have replied in CodeSatori's post:

http://www.boonex.com/unity/blog/entry/Roadmap_for_future_RCs_and_Stable

Looks like direct opposite to my initial reply here, but I guess it's the tone of the discussion that helped. Anyway, the point is that we did want and we did plan to release it a year ago, 11 months ago... 2 months ago, 1 month ago, yesterday, etc. We couldn't. I've been telling you about the process and you could see what's happening starting from Alpha 1.

All in all, I feel sorry see more about the wait, but I don't feel like I need to apologise or release until we're ready.