Actually the way I read the Bug Report is that both issues ("future date" and "stop at 55")have both been resolved.
As far as I understand it, the resolved issues will be grouped as part of the next release date, which as mentioned is not known.
Here's hoping it'll be soon
Luckily for me I'm in the development stage. If the issue isn't resolved by the time I'm ready to go live, I will obviously disable the event function. However, I will use this hiccup as an opportunity to promote it as a forthcoming added feature to users. In fact, even if it is resolved I may hold the use of it back to get users used to the other features first.