All of the database changes that I had on my list went in, which is the criteria that I had in mind for going out of beta. The changes since the beta4 were larger than the ones before that, but conceptionally I'd say we're getting there. The architectural challenges have been overcome as far as I can see, so from now on it should only be adding (a now minor amount of) features.
For the 1.0 release of the bundled modules of this project, you can mainly expect two things: