Greetings,

We at, hack4dean.org, a working group of professional software engineers, graphical artists, students, and other miscellaneous innovators are in the beginnings of a monumental web development project. Our goal is to create and support extensible web community tools for all interest-based and regional groups who are participating in the Howard Dean’s grassroots campaign. The first set of tools we will release will be built on Drupal.

Here is a Wired article about the project.

The past month we have been hard at work getting ready for the Drupal 4.2.0 release; we have been squashing bugs and made small improvements all over the map. We are now in the final phase of the code freeze which means we are down to a few remaining issues that need to be resolved. If you haven't already, please help us test. Report back your findings in the comments below or, if you found a bug, file a bug report.

The release candidate is available at:

http://www.drupal.org/drupal/drupal-4.2.0-rc.tgz

Charlie Lowe announced that he assembled a group of writing teachers interested in using Drupal in education. The group is mostly comprised of PhD students and faculty in Computers and Writing, a subfield of Rhetoric and Composition studies. They plan to commit themselves to improve and extend the existing Drupal documentation. Read on for the full announcement.

The code freeze for the Drupal 4.2.0 release has begun. As of now, no new features or functionality is being added. Just bugfixes. Though, in the initial stage of the code freeze, documentation updates, usability improvements and performance improvements are still being accepted.

If you have a Drupal site and you want to help testing, consider upgrading now. Anyone who doesn't have an old site and wants to help out can of course setup a Drupal site from scratch. Drupal has been remarkably stable during the past weeks so everything should be well.

The release candidate is available at:

http://www.drupal.org/drupal/drupal-4.2.0-rc.tgz