Hello Friends-

	Just a quick note to announce the release of Merb-0.4.0. this is a  
significant release for the project and has way too many features and  
changes to list here. 	

	You can read about the new changes here on my blog:

http://brainspl.at/articles/2007/11/07/merb-0-4-0-released-with-new-site-merbivore-com

	And we have launched a new website as well:

http://merbivore.org

	our trac instance is here:

http://merb.devjavu.com

	IRC channel on irc.freenode.net:

#merb

Merb is an ORM agnostic web framework. Its the VC layer of  MVC. There  
is official plugin support for using ActiveRecord, DataMapper or  
Sequel as your ORM or you can use merb with no ORM if you want to use  
a file store or CouchDB or something like that.

Merb is written with the motto of less magick in the code and clean  
modular entry points to extend the framework for your own purposes.  
Plugins are just rubygems so they support versioning and dependencies.  
We've taken a lot of the good things we like from rails and left  
behind a lot of the cruft and baggage we didn't need or want. This  
means merb is lean and mean and the code is easy to grok.

Cheers-
- Ezra Zygmuntowicz & The Merb Team