Hi all I'm delighted to announce the release of Ironclad v0.8 -- the all-singing, all-dancing CPython API compatibility layer for IronPython -- available now from http://code.google.com/p/ironclad/ . Notable improvements over the last release include: * Ironclad is now a neatly self-contained package -- just copy to your site-packages and 'import ironclad'. * No more silly requirement to call ironclad.shutdown() when you're finished. * A few performance improvements. * Over 900 NumPy tests now pass: in fact, almost all the tests from the core, fft, lib, linalg, ma, oldnumeric and random subpackages. * Over half the .pyds distributed with CPython 2.5 now import cleanly; some of them appear to actually work, including _hashlib and _elementtree. Ironclad grows more stable and mature with every release, and I urge IronPython users to try it out and share their impressions: feedback, whether positive or negative, is always welcomed. Cheers William