Well, we changed a build system, so changelogs are more codebased than human readable; we are aware about the forum and yes, we fucked up with answering the questions and Filip, who is one of the main senior developers on AMS has much more projects and less time to be here - but we already set up new account for product managers, developers and UX so I hope you will be meeting them here very often :-)
Patrice: Icon is now monochromatic, still can turned on and off and yes, in most situation you are OK without icon present at the notification bar, but there are still some situations (ANR, fails, app race) where having the icon is better solution. So no, we are not there yet, but almost there.