More on Shifters

After the official heroic tier feat excerpt and the leaked photograph of the paragon feat list, there are some interesting tidbits to share.
It appears that the 3e shifter traits gorebrute, cliffwalk and beasthide are now racial feats rather than separate races. Perhaps dreamsight and swiftwing will appear as epic feats. It's an interesting mechanic, which can serve to make a shifter's racial power pretty powerful. If you take all the feats, you'll end up with +2 situational damage bonus (either gorebrute or blurring claws), a climb speed and damage resistance while shifting.
Maybe that's why the designers didn't feel the need to add any secondary racial abilities. I'm not sure if it's the best decision, it would have been nice to have interesting abilities without having to invest feats. After all, that was one of the problems with the 3e shifter. I guess I'll reserve full judgement until I see the race in play!