Happy New Year! New core team member Ruben Verborgh have given us all a very special treat - real MySQL Support for umbraco. Yes, real as in a non hacked, beautifully implemented new data-layer for umbraco.
As many long-time followers know, this has been a HUGE wish for a long time and then out of the blue comes Ruben. Bang, bang, bang and two weeks later he has committed a working beta verson of the datalayer including a complete MySQL implementation. If that's not huge talent then tell me what is :-)
The datalayer will become a part of umbraco version 3.1 which is due in March. A complete roadmap of the new feataures of 3.1 will come very soon.
Thank you Ruben - fantastic work!