Honestly, the only think keeping it back is a slightly tweaked splash screen, but RedSoul has all those original files, and he seems to have fallen off the face of the Earth. I've been waiting months for him to get back to me, and he's not responding to e-mail... Honestly, I'll probably give him a little bit more time, but I'm not waiting forever. Feel free to comment if you think I should just push on with the release.
If you wanted to start with the current patch, everything will play just fine when the next version is released as long as you load from an SRM.