Merlin development has really kicked off. Single-server database support is in production at all our customers (all 350 or so of them), and people in the community have started using it for production use in a distributed environment.

Three people in particular have contributed awesomely to making Merlin better for distributed environments. The first to pick it up for this purpose is a guy named Russel Jennings. He's written several concise bug-reports and done tireless testing with various versions to find where some bug was introduced and which versions of the Merlin daemon work well together. A great big thanks for that, Russel!

The other person is a guy named Sean Millichamp. He's gone the extra mile and has started sending in patches for bugs he's found. So far, he's contributed with 10 patches, making him the second most prominent developer for the merlin module-daemon pair. So far, his patches hold very high standard indeed and I have great hopes that we'll see more of his excellent contributions making it into future releases.

Jean-Marc Le Fevre has also contributed some minor patches that he deserves recognition for.

Numerous other people have reported issues with Merlin and contributed to the Wiki and HOWTO's. Thank you all