Get ready for more rumors about Half-Life 2 and it's release. The German PC Games magazine was recently translated on the forums of Halflife2.net and reported as stating:

According to Gabe, ...they are planning to release it in Late summer this year and he apologized for septemer 30. he also said, that the stolen code wasn't the reason for the delay, they had a bad schedueling.

Now remember, don't believe everything you read in the forums. It's not always confirmed and is often an opinion rather then fact.