Perhaps it's time to let Drupal 5.2 out of the bag soon? It's been 6+ months since an update to the branch and I imagine scores of updates to the codebase...

After installing the current Drupal 5.x-dev tarball (as an experiment) I discover that there are database updates to the system and comments tables - this and/or other changes apparently breaks some contributed modules as I discover through a quick survey of the site ( e.g., the spam module, though on, would not display and settings pages).

It might be nice to for contrib authors to be able to update their modules now so that a) they still feel compelled to since Drupal 5 is still the current release, and b) so there's at least a short lag between needing to update code for Drupal 5.2 and needing to update it for Drupal 6.

- Caleb
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