I'm trying hard to triage web2py's issues so I really dropped the ball on pydal's features (plus holidays, plus real life, plus work issues, you got the idea). Sorry.
I pushed originally for a monthly release which isn't set in stone (although really appreciated).
Dropping the August release isn't really a dealbreaker if we're in the middle of cooking and no major bugs or regressions have been spotted in the meantime.
If you're near indexing support "closure", move the other issue without worries to the Oct release.