Magento has a new release today, and there’s a lot of features/fixes in there. The neatest one to me was
Added zend cache backends for apc and memcached by Mark_Kimsal
cause that same Mark Kimsal is my brother. 
The link above points to the full announcement, but here’s a sample of some features in this release:
- Add simple products while editing super products
- Create attributes during adding/editing product
- Product images multiple upload and management tool
- Placeholders, watermarks and dynamic image resizing with GD
- New implementation of catalog category tree for increased performance
- Improved attributes & attributes editing
- Inline Translations
- Packing slips & invoices PDF print-outs with control over logo and address
- Catalog models and collections has been rewritten
- New admin dashboard implementation
- RSS alerts & notifications admin and customer
- Product price and stock status alerts subscription
- Improved price rules management
- Price and tax displaying configuration
- Localizable transactional emails
- Full order comment history in admin
- Added a number of reports, including sales report, newsletter subscribers export
We´ve also tested the new beta of magento. You can see that the official release is near…. Really nice features and a lot of bug-fixes. I´m sure that a lot of people around the world are waiting for the official release of magento (including me). More than 200.000 beta-downloads are really a blast. Keep on rocking – magento!
By the way – nice claim of your blog (especially the last part): web-development, new media observation and general life stuff
Thanks.
BTW, a little bird tells me there’s at least one Magento develpment book on the way (not by me) but watch this blog for an announcement when it’s out!
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A très bientôt