As promised, I’ve made a very heavy pass through the pull request queue (and bug queue) and have reduced the ticket count by about 100 over the last few days. Per Ohloh, over the last 30 days, we’ve had contributions from 68 different people, so I would like to thank everyone who has fixed a bug, added a feature, or contributed docs – this is obviously not counting things merged today or that will be merged in the coming weeks!
New module additions include a module for baking/managing EC2 AMIs as well as a module for Route53 supplementing the existing RDS module also added this release. Please help test them!
There have been numerous bugfixes, including path/space handling and fixes to the cron module, fixes for the htpasswd module, and numerous options added to lots of other modules. Conditionals applied on roles evaluate prior to the conditionals on tasks. Conditionals can once again be saved in variables. Lots of good stuff that will make things a lot easier to use.
You can see all of this on the changelog here:
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/devel/CHANGELOG.md
Also notice the issue list in github is now categorized.
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues?state=open
If something is a feature_request or bug_report and not marked “priority” this might be a good thing for you to work on if you care about expediting the inclusion.
Also if you have an open pull request, see if I’ve added any comments about what it needs to get over the hump and be included. As I’ve noted before, we are more likely to prioritize bugfix pull requests over new features, so closing bug tickets is a great way to get pull requests dealt with faster as well 
Thanks!
–Michael