Seagull 0.5.4 from the development branch was released last week, the last release for 2005, and ended up being suprisingly full of new features. Here are some of the highlights:

• implemented an XML-RPC gateway for easy creation of web services
• version checker first feature to take advantage of RPC
• Chinese and Polish translations updated
• Service Locator object added, now trivial to swap in test db at runtime
• Smarty template support integrated (Malaney J. Hill)
• installer now optionally loads default data
• DB2 support added (Tobias Kuckuck)
• Web root path now configurable from installer
• Improved performance for DB-based sessions (Eric Persson)
• the following url parsing strategies are now enabled by default: classic querystring, standard Seagull SEF, and now UrlAlias, see here for more details
• Basic CLI request implemented (Eric Persson)
• Uri aliases integrated into navigation module, external Uris handled (Andrey Podshivalov)
• Block management enhanced – you can now create any number of arbitrarily positioned blocks and assign content to them (Andrey Podshivalov)
• Integrated advanced locale features available via SGL_Locale (a wrapper for PEAR’s i18nv2), disabled by default

Download here, recommended for php < 5 until Zend IDE supports debugging for php 5.1. Simpletest would be nice too.