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So finally updating the OP again, after almost two months.

Biggest change is that all the PHB2 classes are known and confirmed by Amazon listing the power cards for each class. So replaced this:

Barbarians, Bards, Druids, and Sorcerers are all confirmed for the PHB2 (source, source). We also know:

with this:

The classes included are the Avenger, Barbarian, Bard, Druid, Invoker, Shaman, Sorcerer, and Warden (source). We also know these tidbits about the classes:

Removed this:

• The other classes start with W, I, T, and S (source).
• Discussing the classes: "Three are completely and utterly new. The rest are either classes or old concepts revisited." (source)

Added guesses as to which class is being referred to to each of the tidbits - spellcaster-y cleric is probably the Invoker, deadly Striker is probably the Avenger, Leader with buddy is probably the Shaman.
Added this:

[*]One of the classes is a Defender (source). (Probably the Warden.)

Removed this:

Wizards has no plans to reprint races and classes in the Forgotten Realm's Player's Guide in the PHB2 (source).

Also some other new stuff. Added the following:

The primal power source has a theme of transformation (source).

Avenger
The Avenger will be in the Player's Handbook II.

There is a bard preview here (D&D Insider only).

Invoker
The Invoker will be in the Player's Handbook II.

For the Druid, replaced this:

Significant Druid info here. (Link is dead, as it was to a Gleemax blog. Anyone know of a new place to get the info?) A later interview here suggests that the hybrid version may not have made it past playtesting.

with this:

There is a druid preview here (D&D Insider only).

Also did some cleaning, removing the following:

I'm not repeating most info that was in Races & Classes, at least for now.

Martial Power will not include any new classes.

D&D Insider
Dragon will reveal new classes and races in playtest mode before they appear in a future Player's Handbook (source).

Rich Baker hopes to have Half-Orcs on DDi pretty soon after the Player's Handbook hits (source; note this is from January). He expects to see at least a couple of returning classes (Barbarian, Druid, Bard, Sorcerer) on DDi by this summer (source); later he guesses we might see Bard or Druid by late summer or early fall (source).

Wizards has plans to release an annual "Best of" compendium each year (source).