you mean "B-spheres"...lol, after this release Ton had said his priorities were for Bmesh(N-gons and advanced modeling tools pipeline), and the shading system re-write, which will lead inevitably to a new renderer. They also moved to python 3.2(ventilator, thinking of you when I saw this)and that is final(finally, they had many changes)so any scripts written with 3.2 should be less likely to break....but there will still be a few weeks until it is all fully implemented in trunk.

out of curiosity how many of you visit the Blenderartist forums?
and what is your user name?

user name: JustinBarrett