I am happy to announce the first public release of the Durus object database. Durus offers an easy way to maintain a consistent persistent collection of Python object instances used by one or more processes. For more information, see the web site: http://www.mems-exchange.org/software/durus/ Although this release is numbered 0.1, we believe Durus is stable and reliable. We have been using it seriously for a some months now. Please give it a try and let us know what you think. Note that Durus does not support multi-threaded database access. If that is a requirement for your application, we recommend using the Zope Object Database (ZODB) instead.