Hey Chris ! Thank you. Awesome feedback. 

The RC10 is chunky, because of the overall volume of fixes and enhancements that came into the picture all at once and interdepend a lot. For example, the new "Channels" module is not just a context, it's an auto-generated context made from hashtags. And we also added "labels" that admins can pre-create and associate with channels too. Then, channels can be followed. It may seem straightforward (or does it?), but the devil is in details - multiple associations create multiple cards in Feeds for the same event, which we have to group on output. That alone is quite an undertaking. 

Anyway, not too far now. Mostly we just need to update external libraries, add a few more fixes and start packaging.