Sure thing Alex, the topic came up in todays GeoServer meeting and Brent here will give you a copy of the press release.
I was not heavily involved in this release, but I can say that this release is very much improved from the work of a year ago and represents a much better out of the box experience.
Jody
Hi Jody,
Just saw the announcement of GeoServer 1.3.0. Could you submit a story about the release on slashgeo.org? As you may already know, slashgeo.org has over 8000 daily hits and reaches thousands of GIS professionals. I'd like to share the GeoServer announcement with our readers. (of course, I could write the story myself, but it's always better when it comes directly from the developers
Cheers Jody,
Alex