Quick general announcement...
I will leave this thread open until Friday evening. At that point, I will close it up, consolidate it into a poll and see how things fall out...
At that point, we will make and publish a list of 2.5.X / 2.6.0 features and enhancements (keeping in mind that user requested stuff, while extremely important to us, must be balanced with internal, non-functional stuff we need to do as well... a healthy mix of both is required here).