Alpha went out the window a while ago..... We should've at least had Beta 17 by now.... oh well.
Just for the hell of it:
_L_, please, no more features, no matter how small. Finish the stuff on your to-do list. Save new stuff for 2.6 and beyond. Actually, 2.5 zoomed by a while ago. The next stable version should be 2.6 now....