Any chance you can sneak something in for the next builds which stops older servers showing in the server list?
Seems to put people off spam joining to get outdated messages.
There is already a beta branch which hasn't been used in a long while so i generally don't see what the problem would be if the crashing issues were fixed.
Can't you at least release the patch on the beta branch?
Then you have from now till next week sometime for random people to test and possibly find bugs before you plan on an actual release.