It seems that the newsgroup is a nice tool for the discussion but not to keep track of the actual changes -To get an idea of what actually happend at the code-base usually you might want to look at the ChangeLog. Therefore I had a script which converted the ChangeLog to an atom feed - a couple of colleagues liked this idea and asked me to publish it - so here it is: http://feeds.feedburner.com/TYPO3-CoreTrunkChangelog
_Update: - seems that I had small problems generating proper real UUIDs, this is hopefully fixed now…._