While there's a discussion of 0.5 release plan, here are some candidate topics:

* MM/CC work, to reduce BSoDs and enable further development
* PNP work. vgal has done some work on both HAL and PNP to fix device issues. Also many Windows Server 2003 drivers are usable now. Progressing this and finally integrating into ReactOS is essential at some point.
* Driver issues
* System corruption after hard resets or BSoDs
* Further Win32 work to get many programs usable (I can extensively test Word 2003 if there's help!)
* Getting rid of old fastfat (and progressing NTFS further?)
* Robust networking (adding WPA support, fixing bugs...)
* Installer support for old programs and WoW16 (there's two resources: Win3mu is now open-source and otya128's winevdm)
* Further DirectX work (or just syncs from Wine) and some video work to get more games playable?
* Sound?
* And other things you add or I forgot.

Best regards,
Can