Will the 2.6.0 release be in time for Jaunty?

As an ICQ user I would like to see in Pidgin such a useful feature as X-statuses support. I have found on the Pidgin bug tracker that they have such a bug (http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/4508), a patch is already made and will be included in the upcoming 2.6.0 release.
But I know that packages in Ubuntu repos aren't built on the last day, and there are only a couple of weeks left 'til Jaunty release.
So the question is simple: will all the thousands (perhaps millions) of people who use ICQ on Ubuntu have this much-awaited feature in the next release or it will take another half a year until Ubuntu 9.10?