I'm getting a little concerned about Drupal 4.7; it's really hard to keep track of what state my modules are in, because things keep changing. Here we are at beta4, and we're hit with this UTF-8 upgrade, which is a required change to all modules. It's not a difficult change, I suppose, but it seems rather late in the game to require yet more changes. DRUPAL-4-7 was released as a tag! At that point there shouldn't be any more required changes to modules.

Every time I turn around, lots of little things change here and there. I'm not a particularly vigilant person. I've been catching a bunch of these changes because I'm heavily involved in them right now, but I may not always be.

With things going the way they are, I sure hope that the 4.8 comes with a more well-planned release process. I think Drupal is reaching the point where we have to know in advance what we're going to change, and then change it.

Luckily, I think the majority of these late changes are due to forms API, which was a major, major, major overhaul. We'll have to see.