Twisted version 0.9.0 is available, and the main TwistedMatrix.com website is running it!

This release drops "Python" from the project's name; this will hopefully reduce confusion, and underscore the fact that we hope Twisted to be a cross-language environment.

This release is bringing some cool functionality to Twisted. Perspective Broker is the culmination of my research and experimentation with RPC protocols. For those of you who remember it, this includes the original 'faucet' protocol, the obscure "V3" protocol, and both incarnations of Gloop; my extensive experiences with RMI, a bit of tinkering with XMLRPC, and my confusion at the sprawling standards base that is CORBA...

I believe that PB will be a foundation for much of what makes Twisted really interesting in the coming releases. This evaluation is borne out by the fact that Allen has found it sufficiently interesting that he's already (before the release!) ported the encoding layer (banana) to 2 other languages! This is the first step towards cross-language compatibility.

In other news, I am now with a company called Ninjaneering, where I may be leveraging some of the technology that we've built with Twisted. Have no fear, though! The Ninjas are very cool folks; the code will remain under my copyright control, and therefore released as LGPL. Some of you may recognize a fellow Ninjaneer, Sean Riley, the author of PyUI, in the CREDITS for this release. I am *very* glad I managed to rope Sean into helping me out with this code ;)

I would like to put out a call for documentation at this point -- if any one of you out there knows enough to write a Twisted tutorial, or even a part of one, please do so :). The old "Philosophical Tutorial" has fallen seriously out of date as of this release and so it's been taken off the web. Even if you can't write a tutorial, simple patches correcting or adding docstrings would be greatly appreciated; I'd like the documentation to be clear, consistent, and concise, and right now it's somewhat of a mess and I find I don't have enough time to work on it.

That's all for this release. Thanks for tuning in.