In other news, the temperature in Hell dropped several degrees

Steve Langasek wrote to debian-devel-announce:

Anthony Towns has committed a minor change to the britney script which manages updates of packages to testing, and as a result packages are no longer being accepted into testing without hand-approval by a member of the release team.

Wait, that didn't come out quite right. Let's try again.

Sarge is now frozen! Wheeeeeee!!!

and therefore that:

Joey Schulze of the security team has given the thumbs-up for official security support for sarge as of the time of the freeze. Which is now.

it is possible that he has simply taken leave of his senses, as evidenced by his actually suggesting:

30 May 2005
Release

Is it really possible? Could sarge be released before Woody's 3rd birthday? The suspense is unbearable.