Today, I'd like to make some important announcements.

1) The next release of Rack will be version 0.9 and I want it to be
released as soon as possible (January 2009 would be best, but I see
there are some parts that still need polishing).  Please send patches
you want in there.  This will be the last release of 0.x (apart from
possible bug fix releases).

2) Rack 1.0 will follow soon after, and there will some significant changes:

* This is the chance to make possibly incompatible
  changes/enhancements to the code and the spec.  Please propose now!

* I want full and first-class 1.9 support, thus the spec will need to
  be adjusted for that.  (String#each, Unicode, etc.)

* I want the Rails 2.3 release to work with Rack 1.0, so we will need
  to coordinate releases.

* Rack has become an important part of the Ruby infrastructure and
  should be managed as such.  Thus I have founded the Rack Core Team,
  which consists of:

  * Christian Neukirchen (chneukirchen)
  * James Tucker (raggi)
  * Josh Peek (josh)
  * Michael Fellinger (manveru)
  * Ryan Tomayko (rtomayko)
  * Scytrin dai Kinthra (scytrin)

  The Rack Core Team has write access to the official Rack
  repositories, which now reside at Github:

                       http://github.com/rack/

  and will drive future development of Rack.  Thumbs up for their
  encouragement!