After 8 months of development Drupal 5.0 has been released.
Fittingly, the release date coincided with Drupal’s sixth birthday.
New features added

Status page and requirement checking: added a status report page with detailed PHP/MySQL/Drupal information and requirement checking.
Web-based installer: added web-based installer that checks run-time requirements and that supports pre-made install profiles or distributions with better support for […]