The original plan, from what I recall, had been to release today, but we can slip a bit :-) I don't see much reason to wait for things like warning suppressions are quite reasonable to patch into the master afterwards anyway and there are an infinite number of such changes that we want to make.
I don't have much experience with hotfixes yet, so we shall see about those. They require that you specify the version manually, which is a bit annoying, but being able to search by tags for point release versions might be nice.