just sticking this here so it's not on the homepage.

The rails team has been BUSY over the past week, sheesh!
http://dev.rubyonrails.org/timeline

Here's a nice little write-up of some of these commits. most of the recent activity will be in rails 1.2
http://www.railtie.net/articles/2006/09/05/rush-to-rails-1-2-adds-tons-of-new-features

Prototype got some sweet updates
http://encytemedia.com/blog/articles/2006/08/30/a-flurry-of-prototype-updates
http://encytemedia.com/blog/articles/2006/09/05/the-flurry-continues-more-prototype-updates