This is primarily a bug fix release; quite a few interesting bugs were fixed, mostly having to do with the new panel_views module (I should've let that cook longer but I had promised a beta release by end of 2007).

Get it here.

Nothing smashing and new but this one looks to be a good deal less likely to give random warnings about problems in plugins.inc

Thanks very much to catch and Wim Leers for writing this:

Panels 2 beta ships with two new modules dealing with Views: panels_views and panels_views_legacy.

In alpha versions of Panels 2 (and in Panels 1.x), all views were automatically available as content for panels - and there were a relatively complex set of settings in the "add content" form to add a view (arguments, type, read more link, all that stuff).