Hey everyone!
Yes, we finally got the SSAO merged last Friday. Master (10.x.x) is only available for 2020.2 Alpha 17 version, which isn’t out yet, but due soon.
I hope you’ve all taken a look at the “What is next for us at Unity with Scriptable Render Pipelines” forum post we made in the Graphics Subforum. One of our big focus area right now is about quality and stability. Since this is a brand new feature with some additional addons, where the possibility of undiscovered bugs are high, we will not be backporting it to earlier versions of Unity.
My next tasks will be to Improve the SSAO by adding support for Deferred Rendering and Volume Framework. I will also be starting the work on Custom Post Processing.