Mephisto is officially back! The 0.8.1 release features 157 patches since the start of the month, and several major improvements, including:

• Support for Rails 2.2.
• Unit tests at 100%.
• A major security audit.

Major kudos go to Isaac Kearse, who submitted 37 patches, and who has a bunch more pending on the new-plugins branch. Thanks go also to Dann Lynn, George Murphy, James McCarthy and Rick Olson for their contributions, and to all the testers on #mephisto.

This is an experimental release. Please back up your database before upgrading to Mephisto 0.8.1. Mephisto still has some bugs and rough edges left over from 0.8, but we decided to get a release out quickly, so that people could take advantage of the security fixes.

If you use Mephisto plugins, please see the recent post on plugin APIs. The plugin situation is a bit messy, and we apologize for your patience while we figure it out.

If you encounter any problems with 0.8.1, please drop by #mephisto. If you’d like to submit patches, please submit a pull request to emk on github. We’d like to make an 0.8.2 release fairly soon, and your help is always welcome.

Thank you for using and contributing to Mephisto!