Rails 2.1 Released: Time zones, dirty, caching, gem dependencies, caching, etc

This seems like a pretty strong feature set for a point release. Especially considering that it doesn't seem to change the overall API too drastically.

"...a point release...[that] doesn't seem to change the overall API too drastically"

In other words, you mean "a point release," right? I know that many open source projects (I'm looking at you, Drupal!) may not care about this, but when I see a minor revision number change, I expect my applications and plugins to keep working without a major overhaul.

Well... point release might be the wrong term. I usually think of that being the third number. I guess I meant "minor version release".

Hence, not a major overhaul. Perhaps a minor one. I usually take the first number to involve some large-scale shift in the architecture of the thing, the second number to be minor API changes, and the third to be bugfixes and security updates.

The time zone handling is a nice feature. It has already made my life easier..

named_scope is pretty awesome.