Perhaps the authors got tired of waiting for the Ximian 1.4 packages to come out.
Authors have deadlines too.
The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. As for the rushed Gnome 1.4 release, it's such a shame that they had to rush, and then didn't even end up making it into RH 7.1. Can't say it matters much to me, though - Ximian's Gnome is always better than RH's anyhow. But I'm just going to wait for Ximian anyway, because their releases are better usually. More likely, the reviewer wanted to review it before anyone else did.