What are plans for releasing next version of lame? It will be nice to have release or alpha wich can be used with ffmpeg, or we are waiting for more fixes before version bump? From cvs it looks like 3.98.3 and 3.99.alpha1 are tagged for 6 months already, and from 3.98 beta history I assume that sometimes releaase can happen without tarball posted on SF project page.
We'll release 3.98.3 in a few days.