Changes in this addition include several bug fixes, updates to the
splash screen between services and the ESOE on initial authenticaton and
support for the back/forward button to be used correctly in browsers.

At this point we also intend to roll out a new version of the Apache
libraries later today as Alpha 3 of that code base.

Additional work for the ESOE itself will now focus on rewriting the ESOE
Manager tool to take it from something usable by administrators in the
short term to a proper management environment for all users.

We intend to release a Beta 3 in the future containing the new ESOE
Manager environment and the Apache code as a single package, IIS will be
rolled out initially as s standalone Alpha/Beta candidate series and
rolled into the core distribution in the future when it makes sense to
do so.

Overall the goal of an extremely solid 1.0 release is on track for early
2008. It may interest some of you to know that Beta 2 code is already
being used in production by large clients, its certainly 1.0 level code,
we'd just prefer to have more of the external pieces together before
tagging it as such.

For developers the Ivy repository has been updated to 0.5.1 (Beta 2),
trunk merges and tagging is occurring now and should be available in the
next couple of hours.

regards,
Bradley
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Bradley Beddoes
Lead Software Architect
Intient