It's very nice to see the overwhelming response to the bug review call. Thanks everyone.
Now, the other thing we need to do is, of course, finding more bugs to fix :) With the recent bugfixes, I think the time to test it in earnest has come. So I would like to ask if anyone is capable of providing periodic builds of Inkscape to be uploaded to SF as a testing/prerelease series, the same as Ted did for 0.39.
However the important thing about the 0.40 testing builds is that they must be linked statically. With all the new libraries we now use, and with all the reported incompatibilities of their versions, it is critically important that at least Boehm and libsigc++ are static, and maybe also gtkmm and others. This will make it so much easier for people to try out the builds. We will have to provide static builds of the final release, so why not start testing the static build process right now. Any volunteers?