The blocking/critical issue status is: http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBAS-4562 - Need an MC 2.0.0.Beta5 release, Ales has changes, we need to synch on any other changes. I created a JBossMC-2.0.0.Beta5 release due on 24/Sep/07 for these. Assigned to Scott. http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBAS-4562,JBAS-4506 - Need a jboss-metadata release and unifying metadata. I'm working on the legacy org.jboss.metadata usage in the server module. We need to agree on a model that allows the ejb3 deployers to work with annotations, metadata complete/incomplete descriptors, profileservice overrides. Assigned to Scott. http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBAS-4744 - Update to JBossXB 2.0.0.CR5, this is blocking the jboss-metadata release. We need to get sufficient implementation for the legacy metadata dom element wildcards to handle current uses. Assigned to Alexey. http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBAS-3410,JBAS-3412 - VDF Deployer migration tasks (JBAS-3410), Port ClientDeployer and complete JavaEE5 support. The client deployer needs the unified metadata. Assigned to Scott. http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBAS-4620 - NPE in EJB3 Authentication Interceptor. Needs to be validated by Anil. http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBAS-4675,JBAS-4690 - transaction local issues Johnathon is working on. http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBAS-3350 - NPE on service-ref in web.xml, old issue that needs to be verified. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4087349#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...