[wp-testers] WP 2.6 in two weeks?

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 >>Does that mean that this will be included:
>
>> http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4280<<

Is this just going to be made *easier*?  i s that why it's so  
exciting?  because I already do this fairly easily.  Automated would  
definitely be nice.

It would also be nice if the sidebars *stopped* disappearing when you  
used widgets in 2.5.x - is this fixed in 2.6?  (I don't know if  
there's a trac for it - I haven't searched yet - but I've had 3 sites  
in the last week that I've done that lose the widgets after 30 minutes  
using 2.5.x).

~Shelly