FYI: http://drupal.org/node/105004 http://scratch.drupal.org is now running the latest copy of core (HEAD, actually, not just RC1, since there have been some important bugs already fixed since RC1). we were able to do this since i finished porting project* to the 5.x API, which was the last big hurdle. this is an important milestone on the way to a 5.0 stable release... first scratch.d.o, then live on d.o itself, then eventually the official release. meanwhile, all y'all module and theme maintainers, *PLEASE* help test the 5.0 port of the release system... it's going to suck if we upgrade d.o to 5.0 and then all of a sudden we're all freaked out because some important element of the release infrastructure isn't working right. to make this as easy as possible for you, i've resurrected the scratch CVS repository, and pointed the release system on scratch.drupal.org to interact with that. find out more here: http://drupal.org/node/105016 thanks for caring, and happy holidays... ;) -derek (dww)