As prognosticated earlier, the next release of Bespin (named “Chuck Finley”) schlepped out the door this week. One half maintenance release and the other half feature release, Chuck Finley adds a “deploy” command and support for SVN commands while fixing various glitches with the once-shiny-now-lusterless “H. E. Pennypacker” release we put out in late August. The deploy command takes Bespin one step closer to the vision of developing entirely in the cloud and we’re absolutely thrilled to move in that direction.

Kevin Dangoor goes into Chuck Finley’s new features over on his blog, including a look at an enhancement to collaboration that shows you the current location of your collaborators’ cursors (a fancier version of this is coming soon).

Next up is 0.4.5 “Bubba Ho-Tep”, a planned maintenance release for next week that may gain a few features as well.