We're close to ready to try a candidate release. Naturally, the looming release brings urgency to get all those "I want it" changes in before the flag falls. Well, it's falling now. To keep the focus on getting that put together, and mixing metaphors even more, the freeze is going colder.
Please, no new code or features or suggestions or language changes or performance improvements unless they directly address the tasks that need to be done for Go 1.1 as listed here:
Even that page is optimistic about what will actually make the cut.
-rob