As Kirk said, we're moving forward ... but slowly. These sorts of projects, unfortunately, don't always attract that much attention since they're difficult and unglamorous. Everyone involved has lots of other projects to maintain, which is often the way. Anyway, which "important features" are important to you? It'd be helpful to us to know more about people's expectations of what ruby dbi should do. cap wrote: > The lastest version of ruby's dbi is build at 2003-09-07, 2 years ago > And the las version of the perl 's is build at 2005-11-29.... > > So when can we a newer version of ruby's dbi ? > The 0.0.21 is out of date and lack of many important features