Believe me, I ant my holidays, too and I won't gt any before the Beta 2.0 release.
I think there are a few tweaks which are to be implemented which are not necessary since they do not actually improva the gameplay or so. I don#t think we need a new skin since they were redone so often and the ones in IR 1.97 look pretty nice in my opinion.
The maps are finished, all that we do now is improve the pathings and betatesting already which may shorten the time between RC1 and public release and make the maps even more bugfree.