The line in the header of the page in authoring mode, which usually contains information such as Workflow State: authoring | not live | User: torsten | Server Time: 2005-3-12 14:48:02 +0100 is not there any more in 1.4 trunk.
Hm, this usually happens if the workflow file (for this particular content file) is missing. Could you check if there is a workflow file under ${publication-id}/content/workflow/history/authoring/...?
The workflow history files don't have to be present anymore. Torsten, could you try it again please?
Are you using the XUL-Menu? I think the status info is simply not implemented in the XUL-Menu.
this has been fixed