With Merb 1.0 right around the corner, we're buckling down and making sure that Merb is rock-solid by October 11.

A bunch of features have landed or are landing over the weekend:

Taking advantage of Ruby Enterprise to reduce memory overhead

Simplifying deployment of Merb clusters

Improving the errors that Merb spits out when something goes wrong inside Merb.

Fixing an infrastructure problem that caused Merb's logger to cause thread-safetiness issues in JRuby. Also resolve the comingling of logged information for multiple requests in threaded environments.

Fix several bugs in merb_helpers that were driving people nuts when trying to do non-standard things.

More on the first two this Monday. We've been doing a lot of work to make deploying Merb apps simple and efficient.

Have a great weekend!