Yes, the garbage collector thing is in. If you look at the date of a jum build and may be count a hour or two back you have the state of the CVS I did use for a build. I only additionally have a few patches in that are known already (I submitted these to the developers list in the past).

I have no experience with CHUD yet, although I will definitely be looking into it in the near future. But for tomorrow I am pretty busy perparing ARWEN for winter, tomorrow is crane day.