> I do not plan to backport any fix from the HEAD to 1.0.x branch,

since

> too many changes were made in HEAD and backporting is not easy task.
> But if somebody from the group wants to do this, I have not problem

of

> patching 1.0.1 release.

Fair enough, I do have a patched 1.0.1 already that I have been using
in a production environment for a while now... I didn't make it, I
think you may have done, but shall I send it to you???

Jon