Wow! Drupal 5.0 just now released! I just spent some sleepless hours last night setting up the RC2; now I’m looking forward for another joyful night in upgrading this site and maybe my other Drupal sites too to Drupal 5.0.

Some of the highlights for this new baby as summarized by Dries:

There have been over 492 contributors to the Drupal 5.0 release submitting 1173 patches, which is 150 more people than our previous record with Drupal 4.7. These new contributions are seen in the major usability improvements, a new Drupal core theme, a web-based installer, and expansion of the Drupal development framework that will afford themers and contributing developers even greater flexibility and power.

Way to go Drupal!