[soved]Request Approval Button on FC 1.5.6 RC9 (r1514)

I'm testing an upgrade from FC RC2a 1.5.6 r1057 to FC 1.5.6 RC9 (r1514) and I just noticed that the "Request Approval"-button in the backend is now missing.
We have all our authors working in the backend as members of the "Manager" group which is limited in permissions by Flexiaccess 1.0.5 so they can just start new articles and edit their own articles but they can not publish them. All articles must be approved by an editor prior to being published. The editors are Admins and Superadmins.

Clicking on "change state" button does not work due to the lack of permissions: "You are not authorized to change state of: : 5272 - Reason: no publish permission - Skipped unauthorized IDs" and I found no way to allow them the changing of the state of an article. Besides this, if they could change the state of an article they would almost certain be able to publish it which is not desired...
Is there a way to get the "Request Approval" button back?
If not, then how can an author request the approval for an article now?
Regards

Yes it is broken, rc8/rc9 have a new powerful notifications feature , check at it at global configuration and at content Type configuration (note you can enable category specific)

But the manual approval request is needed to , so that an editor can edit the item multiple times or during multiple sessions and when he is satisfied , then he request approval,

i ll fix this (note: RC9 is final for sure as soon as a fix a few things for search (advanced search works)

Regards

I saw the new notification functions (great work by the way!), but we actually need the manual approval request, because our authors often don't write their stories at once. Sometimes it takes several days till an article is finished and if the editor gets a notification everytime an article is saved, with more than 20 autors, this is a lot of emails and it'll become really hard to figure out which email announces a finished article for approval.
Right now we are integrating new functions to our website on a testing server and I would like to accomplish this with flexicontent (latest version, due to bugs in the frontend-editing-features in r1057) and if I don't have the manual approval request button, I'll need to use third party components (which I actually don't want to). My deadline is in about two weeks. Do you think the manual approval request button will work till then?

actually i wanted this fixed for RC9 (final version only several additions to searching feature needed)

but had little time and from being fixed in RC9 , just still thinking what the parameter should be
e.g
Parameter Approval requests:
1. auto-approval requests (via notifications feature)
2. manual approval requests (via Approval button)

or Parameter
New item state (for non-publishers, backend)
1. Pending Approval :: unpublished
2. Draft :: unpublished

Just thinking what is more appropriate

Since there seems to be a problem for my authors to change the state of an article due to the lack of permissions to do so and in J 1.5.x as well as in FlexiAccess 1.0.5 there is no way to allow the change of state for my authors I'd prefer the manual approval request.
Just my opinion of course

I have added selection of automatic or manual approval, and i am testing it,

a question , the existing manual approval for J1.5 with FLEXIaccess sends email to all people that can publish it

i am thinking, should we change this and use the very configurable new notifications options (you can configure global/per content type/per category by it uses user id and joomla user groups not FLEXIaccess user groups)?