I almost thought they were trying to be funny and say it would not be released this year, but rather released on new years, but if you look at the bug page, theres a graph of bugs discovered vs bugs fixed, and its separating, that means they are marking stuff as done so they can release the game. I know this because I had a bug report that hadn't been touched for 289 days, 17 hours and 48 minutes. By my calculations it's going to happen soon and it's going to be a shit show, just like that past releases.