Well, the latest news about version 0.9 is that we're going to skip it. Since we feel that we're ferature complete the next release will be version 1.0 beta.
In the way up to version 1.0 final we'll fix any issue that will bubble up in the beta and work on more sample applications and more documentation.
No new features will be added though.
As for the ETA, we'd love to release it this week, but we're having some maven issues that need to be sorted first, so please keep your fingers corssed and bear with us

Everyone involved in the project is pretty much swamped with work and life in general, but we're trying to squeeze any free minute we have into getting the release out the door.
cheers,
Roland