We're still waiting for the etch release. The big blockers are this point are apparently the kernel and installer, though progress is definitely being made. The second release candidate of the main installer was announced recently, along with a new kernel upload.

Though it's not released yet, several people within the lab, myself included, are testing etch on our workstations. For the most part things are going very smoothly. The upgrade process from sarge is still somewhat tricky, especially if you've got a whole lot of custom changes on your machine, and they also take a lot longer than clean installs. I can promise you that if you've got a dual-monitor configuration in X right now, we're going to break it when we upgrade your machine. It's not difficult to restore the working configuration, but it does require a little bit of intervention.

While working on CSAIL Debian I also took the time to update the INQUIR clients, fixing a number of bugs. I've started a little bit of work toward a web front end based on this tool, but keep getting sidetracked...