Above is a short list of some of the view-specific functionality coming with the release candidate build. 

There are many other features and requests coming with the RC as well including: IDataErrorInfo support to enable models to surface validation error messages, as well as richer error validation extensibility to enable you to use your own approach to surface model validation errors to ModelBinders (the IDataErrorInfo support is built on top of this); new FileResult and JavaScriptResult ActionResult types (allowing you to more easily download files as well as executable JavaScript to browsers); built-in jQuery -vsdoc intellisense support; refactored AccontController support to enable easier unit testing and extensibility with form login scenarios; a variety of project template improvements, more extensibility everywhere; lots of bug fixes; and a few other cool features I'll blog about later once the RC is out.

We'll be releasing the ASP.NET MVC Release Candidate in January.  Our plan is to have that build be ASP.NET MVC V1 API and feature-complete and have zero known bugs.  We'll give people a short period to upgrade to it, give it a good tire-kicking, and report any last minute issues they find.  We'll then ship the official V1 release shortly after that (so not far off now).

Hope this helps,

Scott