In reply to Andre.

This is one reason I'd like to see a month or two between RC and 5.0.

Because of the long Thanksgiving weekend, there are only five work days remaining before the target release date on the 27th. We don't have an RC yet so it's looking to me like 5.0 will be pushed back until January 22. I hope that's what happens since an RC in December with final release in January would be very helpful to theme and plugin makers in smoothing out the details and updating help resources.