Keen eye! The release is tagged and the artifacts are indeed on maven central, but we are holding the official announcement for a few days to be able to launch with a nice set of community libraries already published. So much for flying under the radar :-)
Here is the 2.12 roadmap
<a href="http://www.scala-lang.org/news/2.12-roadmap" rel="nofollow">http://www.scala-lang.org/news/2.12-roadmap</a>
Great.<p>What's the status on performance slowdown wrt to relying on Java 8 default methods in 2.12[1]? Hopefully this is not a JVM limitation[2] and can be sorted out during the RC cycle.<p>Fewer generated class files <i>and</i> improved performance would very much be a nice-to-have.<p>[1] <a href="http://www.scala-lang.org/blog/2016/07/08/trait-method-performance.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.scala-lang.org/blog/2016/07/08/trait-method-perfo...</a><p>[2] <a href="https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8161334" rel="nofollow">https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8161334</a>