With a little delay Netbeans 6.1 has been released. Most noteable of this version is the huge performance boost. The release notes can be found here. Interesting are the future plans for Netbeans 6.5. It will be all about databases and it seems that Netbeans is becoming more and more a platform for scripting languages (JRuby, Groovy, PHP, …)

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