This is a stable (production) release of the Flightdeck-UI library and Multi-Variable Monitor (MVM). Downloads are available from the project homepage ("http://www.openlight.com/fdui/"). The screenshots are here: "http://www.openlight.com/fdui/screens.html". The goal of the Flightdeck-UI project is to apply ideas from aircraft instrumentation design to general purpose user interfaces. The project consists of a library (which provides widgets based on the basic instruments of flight) and the Multi-Level Monitor (MVM) monitoring application. MVM can be quickly configured to track data from several sources (for example free disk space on your machine, the local weather, the number of visits to your website, etc.). It will then sit in some corner of your desktop, allowing you to read this information with an occasional glance. MVM includes a graphical editor and theme support. Support for multiple concurrency models in MVM plug-ins has been added in this release (asynchronous I/O and thread pool examples are included in the distribution). In addition, it is now easier to write simple plug-in modules, with functions that return integer or floating point numbers. For more information, see the README-MVM.TXT file ("http://www.openlight.com/fdui/README-MVM.TXT"). A number of bugfixes (particularly in the graphical editor) as well as enhanced error notification have also been added. Some of the new plug-ins (most notably the ones using thread pools) perform a clean shutdown when you exit MVM. If your Internet connection is hung up, you might have to wait a little for the I/O to time out so that the threads can stop (it is not possible to interrupt a Python thread). MVM and the Flightdeck-UI library are both open source/free software. They have been tested under Linux (RedHat 7.2) and under Windows 95. Questions can be emailed to originator of this message. Your ideas and participation will be appreciated!