It's really a RC2 with aoTuV patchset using USE="aotuv" so this is what you really want to test -- encoding and decoding. There was a bug report of prev. versions installing doc's into shady directories, this shouldn't do that. Please test and mark stable.
Stable for HPPA.
stable for amd64
x86 stable
ppc stable
ppc64 stable
Stable on alpha.
arm/ia64/sh/sparc stable, closing