Thread you refer to is probably this one. Some of Funcom’s employee’s are back from vacation/holiday break but not everybody, they are not yet at full force.
Just before they went to holiday break (literally stayed on a day longer then planned and sent the patch to testlive on a Saturday), Funcom released yet another major patch to testlive. You can read those patch notes here. The current guess for when testlive will be moved to live is a few weeks.