> Is this release to be considered useable in a production environment where > 5.3.29 was not?
I am confident to recommend 5.3.30 for use in production environments. I always have the latest devel versions running on the servers here at my ISP. There have been some niggling issues with the previous few devel builds, but these are all now resolved, so I feel that 5.3.30 is going to prove to be nice and stable. Michael.