It was no secret that Drupal.org's download pages were sub-optimal: we had two views, one by version and one by download type. This was a left-over from project.module's old browsing structure.
Dan Gillmor is a prominent journalist, author and commentator on technology in the San Francisco Bay Area (Silicon Valley), known for his technology articles in the San Jose Mercury.
This is a summary of what the developers are working since Dries has opened the new developer tree on Apr 7, 2005. I presume that you are familiar with Drupal 4.6, I'll list only the major news.