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First, this is a dev item (under the old Core system, which is still mostly relevant):

# Core54, TRANSLATION SUPPORT, (Future): Announcements and other interface text needs to come out of the game and be placed in an editable format to support any potential translators, though current font implementations restrict this process at the moment if non-ASCII characters are to be involved.

It's also been frequently discussed:
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=4555.0
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=79593.0 (Russian)
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=53401.0
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=4736.0
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=51128.0 (Russian)
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=98900.0
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=60742.0
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=63230.0
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=41705.0

It should be noted that the broader concept of scavengers has been throughly discussed, and the specific use of scavengers to reduce the number of items on the map has come up as well:

http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=97459.0
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=49086.0
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=3243.0
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=5234.msg68732#msg68732

Some additional links:

http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=6015.0
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=67392.0
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=89727.0
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=78564.0
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=26743.0

Diseases are an extremely popular suggestion.  Here are some of the results from the first few pages of a search for "diseases":

http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=100007.0
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=95209.0
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=94695.0
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=95257.0
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=98523.0
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=87611.0
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=40492.0
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=39126.0
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=81480.0
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=63628.0
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=54851.0
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=2914.0
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=60173.0
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=71669.0
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=3541.0
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=60668.0
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=2881.0
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=4792.0

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disease diseases ill illness illnesses sick sickness sicknesses parasite parasites parasitic parasitism infect infects infection infections infected contagion contagions contagious contagiousness

It looks like restacking is finally going to exist. All those Plump Helmet Seeds are now Plump Helmet Seed[5]!

In case it's not clear yet: I'm 99% certain that what Toady described in the devlog is not restacking (hence the need for haulers to carry a container).  Restacking is not on the dev page and, if I had to guess, probably won't be implemented during this cycle.

I'm really curious as to HOW Toady did it. The forums have discussed it for years and the best theory I've ever heard is that a dwarf would automatically look for hauling tasks starting and ending in nearby places.

So my question is, erm, how did you do that?

My guess is that when a dwarf grabs an item for hauling, it does a quick floodfill to check the surrounding area for another item that has the same destination as the first item.

Yeah, that's possible.  Smarter hauling AI could definitely have implications for jobs in general. 

Any word on the vanishing text bug?

Once again: it helps to link to the report so people know what you're talking about.

So how often do these bugfix releases get sent on average?  What is the criteria for determining whether or not a new release should be posted?

0.34.01 was released on Feb 14.  In the 45 days since then, there have been 5 releases (not counting 0.34.04, which was more of a hotfix).  Those 5 releases fixed 188 issues, averaging 9 days and 37.6 bugs per release.  Unless there's an exceptionally urgent problem, the release criteria is just about a certain amount of stuff having been fixed (something in the neighborhood of 35 or 40 bugs).

Also when will we get proper arthropod reproduction and giant ant colony infestations?

Timetable/suggestion questions are generally not answerable.