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Andy's email has not made it into the list archives yet so this post will quote directly from it ...

Executive summary:

• In the 6.0 branch, SGE release version 6.0u10 will be released in 2 weeks with more than 50 bug fixes and enhancements
• Grid Engine 6.1 (a significant update) will issue it's second preview/comment release within 2 weeks
• Grid Engine 6.1 will have a beta release targeted for the last week of February
• Grid Engine 6.1 is targeted for an official release in April 2007

From the email:

In addition to the new functionality already announced at

   http://gridengine.sunsource.net/news/SGE61preview-announce.html

this version will be feature complete. The following features will be added
with 6.1preview2:

   - support for boolean expressions for host and string resources:
        Example:
         % qsub -l arch="!sol-sparc64&(sol*|hp*) ..
         -> run job on architecures starting with "sol" or "hp"
         but not on architecture "sol-sparc64"

         The "usual" boolean support syntax with logical OR ("|"), AND
         ("&") and NOT ("!") and brace ("(", ")") will be supported.

         The characters  [, ], ?, *, &, | and ! will not anymore be allowed as
         values for strings

   - new "qsub -wd " feature
        an enhancement to "qsub -cwd" but the start directory of the job is
        given after the "-wd" option

   - MySQL support for ARCo
        We need the active testing and feedback from our community users
        to be able to decide of MySQL suport can become a fully supported
     part of the SGE 6.1 release.

   - FreeBSD support
        it's also part (at source code level) of the SGE 6.1 release. This
        contribution comes from our open source community.

        We welcome our community members to add courtesy binary builds to
        our open source project download page)

    - various nice qmon improvments from Hin-Tak Leung

         http://gridengine.info/articles/2007/01/12/meet-and-thank-hin-tak-leung

      These improvments also will be part of 6.0u10

Personally, I'll be spending time testing MySQL ARCO interoperability and learning more about the fabulous new Resource Quota functionality coming in SGE 6.1.