How to effectively search in the userguide?

[eluser]Derek Allard[/eluser]
"near-ish" is't specific enough?

No set date for another release yet. We just released EE 1.6, and so now all the improvements filter down into CI, and its reasonable to assume a new release will come out shortly - but it depends mostly on how quickly we get the conversion over.

If you want bleeding edge, the most recent code is always available from the SVN repository (you can find instructions to access it on the download page.