The fifth beta release of ZEO 1.0 was released today. It is available at http://www.zope.org/Products/ZEO. I expect that this will be the final beta release of ZEO 1.0. Zope Enterprise Objects (ZEO) provides the ability for multiple processes to use a single Zope Object Database. ZEO turns the Zope object system into a distributed architecture, allowing multiple processors, machines, and networks to act as one website. The 1.0b5 release fixes one serious bug that was found during use of the previous release. A version with these fixes has been in production use on zope.org for more than a week. The complete change log is: - Fix a bug introduced in earlier beta that caused the storage server to leak two file descriptors per client connection, eventually leading to a crash. - Reduced the amount of memory consumed by the logging infrastructure. - There were numerous small changes to close() methods and the test suite to avoid leaking (much) memory when a single process opens and closes many ClientStorage objects. Jeremy