Blockers for the outstanding 1.1 release
if you want to help us then start at this tasks

Missing party mode (contact whiteshark to get further information on how to help)
- finishing new one (partymode branch) 
  pro: should be easy to port to all supported platforms
       it should be easy to extended w/ lua support
       basic plugin support, not only party modes
  con: work!
       modes has to be adapted
       work!
- merge the old one
  pro: less work
       it is known to work and there are many existing modis
  con: may be difficult to port to other platforms than windows

Unicode support (contact tobigun to get further information on how to help)
- there is a unicode branch
- seems to work except for some glitches

Microfone playback
- buffers have to be adjusted
  - this may be done automatically (prefer this!)
  - or at least the user has to manually adjust this
- there may be other problems as due to the missing buffer adjustment there were no extensive tests

Theme changes
- there are some problems w/ theme-object positions mainly in the option-screens

There are also assembla tickets that need to be fixed
http://www.assembla.com/spaces/usdx/milestones/26192-UltraStar-Deluxe-1-1-Release