Rodney, updating your personal notification settings to all forums you are having issues with will clear out the post level notifications (the heart of the problem). I've already posted a beta to my team who found some minor issues with it which I have corrected. I am currently (this very hour actually) going through another list of my own which contains no critical items but I saw them so I feel they should be corrected. This means I will post a beta 2 to my team today and depending on the feedback from it, post to release tracker. The beta team hasn't been as involved with this one in the past plus I was busy myself so it took a few months to get this far. (Which isn't really that long, considering the general project release time vs the number of bug corrections made).

Chris, thank you so much for posting a status update.  You may or may not know, but there are MANY people that appreciate all of the hard work that has gone into the current version.  It is unfortunate that a single bug has over shadowed such a huge and (mostly) successful undertaking. 

I am ecstatic to know that we are close to us not having to sift through "My Posts" to find new ones or wait for existing but invisible posts to show up.

Harsh but very fair and I agree 100% - Definitely not Crispys fault but this should have been flagged a "showstopper" the day it was raised and dealt with as soon as possible - a quarter of a year with some of the oldest forum members (it is more likely to affect active users) not being able to post on the core Forums is pretty unbelievable...