This is to follow up on Bryce's earlier Hard Freeze announcement to bring attention to our blockers once more.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bugs?field.milestone%3Alist=21423field....
#384688 - Long Standing Bug. Offset on text objects causes rendering/geometry artifacts. Pretty nasty and very easy to run into... I know I personally have a handful of files affected by it. Would really be nice to get fixed, but if it were the last blocker it should be re-milestoned.
#953992 - Regression. Imported pattern disappears on transform. This is a renderer regression which is why it's marked as a blocker. It is still an issue in 0.91.x but is no longer affecting trunk. Is anybody interested looking into backporting this? If not, we're fine to bump the milestone forward since 0.92 will have it resolved.
#1245989 - Regression. Canvas ends up 1x1px on certain documents. This is a weird issue and also affects XAML import (1235809). However, Inkscape can't directly produce files with this issue w/o the XML Editor being used. Apparently we used to create an A4 canvas in these situations, now it's 1x1 px (happened with templates due to the units refactoring). Logically, doing it to drawing size would be the best "fix" (I agree with comment #5 in 1235809).
#1387864 - Regression. THE BIG BLOCKER is the one on document units. Tavmjong posted to the list about this with the subject of "Hard Freeze for 0.91: Inkscape Units". At this point there appears to be two obvious paths forward, 1) Possibly reverting back to the old superficial behavior when switching "Default units" (Tav's question at the end of his message pertained to this), or 2) hide/remove the "Default units widget" for 0.91 and potentially make Inkscape unusable to a sizable portion of our userbase. Obviously 1 is ideal, but we're left with the question of how feasible it is to get back that functionality in a way we're reasonably confident won't break 0.91 so close to release.
Cheers, Josh