I understand that you can find the latest builds here. I am a computer programmer, but not everyone else is. The "suggestion" posed here is: news releases, press releases, or whatever. Somewhere on one of the three major sites (forum, wiki, blog) post that 1.5.1 is stable enough to uses and has these bugs: 1., 2., 3., ...
Because quite honestly, that is news to me!
But if I don't know which specific bugs I'm going to encounter, is it worth it for me to upgrade from fully stable version?
I guess my biggest frustration is that horses are over the horizon, and I might have to choose one day between horses and automatic miners, and I don't want to wait for two months again just to still be waiting.
So please, O' Gracious Developers, come out of the locked factory doors and address the general public! We beg of thee!