I mean tagged and official for download from https://getmonero.org/downloads/. What changes for the bears and shorts is that the development work that has been going on for well over 9 months is released officially.  It also means that the process for the necessary hard fork is started.

Edit: A bear can download say the 64bit Windows version from https://getmonero.org/downloads/ and feel comfortable with a short since the binary has a last modified date of 08 December 2014. It also requires over 8 GB of RAM and will fail on the Home Basic versions of Windows Vista and 7.   

I have 0.9 for a while and for me it runs smooth and I'm happy with, I did download it from a reddit link, but you can't promote a release that is not published anywhere, 0.9 actualy is a on ¿alfa? and website only links to the beta 0.8.8.6 https://getmonero.org/downloads/

The sad true is that downloadable binaries are too much old and the "download source-code and compile" is not an option for me

If I had an old PC and the software wouldn't run on it I wouldn't get my wallet and actually I'd have 0 Mooneros

I know that there is a web wallet but I don't like web services for storing money, the same way as I have a paypal account but 0 €$ on it until I really need that service

This is good idea to have betas and the monero wesbite. Now when ppl go there, they just see 1 year old binaries, suggesting that nothing has been done since then. betas would show that the development is ongoing, and allow more ppl to test beta releases.

I think we're all forgetting that the monero website is editable via git. Well, pending merging a pull request by fluffypony. I'll send the pull request.

So smooth, what's holding up releasing new binaries? Is there some crucial feature that remains to be implemented? Who makes the call as to when the code is ready?

I speculate that the price of monero will increase when less people are using Claymore's AMD miner because Claymore won't have a continuous supply of XMR to dump at any price.

Less people will use Claymore's miner when Wolf0 finishes his open source AMD miner.

https://forum.getmonero.org/9/work-in-progress/2400/open-source-amd-miner-by-wolf0

Only ~12% to go! I know someone that follows this thread has ~750 xmr to throw at this!

I am out of wheat for a while, modestly benefiting, and planning to go long again on opportunity; I am steady holding long (with expected time frame in parens) on XMR (years), SPX (3 days), GBP (3 days), GLD (4 days).  The XAUXAG long is working well enough to justify buying the dip a bit later today (2-20 days).  I may short indices of indebted western European countries tomorrow, or Monday.  I may short US financials next week.  I could imagine (but probably wont execute) a short XBT on signs of DXY strength, but probably not until next Thursday.  A propos of XMR, that implies an expectation of weak downdraft on XMRXBT for another week, followed by an upturn of non-negligible duration and strength.  I tentatively plan to pick some up late next week at some point, but not large enough to make a level-resetting impact, so there's no point front-running me.

It is Free Libre Software as opposed to propriety software. This is important for the security of the blockchain. It is also now at 100% funding.

Well then do the math for those guys about the Dev-Fee and what their real Output would be.... its 5% if i remember correctly...