Bryce Harrington wrote:
Fedora 9 goes into feature freeze and beta freeze March 4th, and beta release March 13th with Final Development freeze April 8.
For inclusion for both Fedora and Ubuntu, we'd need to release by the 4th. If we skipped Fedora, we'd have until the 13th. If we miss both of those dates, then the next opportunity to get Inkscape out officially to Linux users would be 6 months from now.
Note that Fedora development (rawhide) currently tracks the Inkscape development (right now pre2) in the good faith that Inkscape will follow the expectations and do a release in due time. So Fedora 9 Beta *will* have Inkscape 0.4 pre2 unless something really bad happens and force a revert.
Also the pre releases are built for the stable branch (F8) and available in the build system (koji) but will be pushed as updates only *after* the formal release.