I have started to check-in some larger changes in svn to prepare for a serious 2.0 release. Most of these features we are already using successfully in our blog network weblogssl for a few weeks (+-30 blogs, almost 1.000.000 pageviews per day).
We are planning to release Lightpress 2.0 with the following features:
Openid comments:We already have this running in our branch, and we are using it already in some of our blogs. (f.e. www.genciencia.com). What is missing here is the adaptation of the templates in the trunk, and some generalization of settings which are now very specific for our setup.
Improved caching: Here we have have seperate caching of elements of the page. F.e. the sidebar is cached seperately from the body page, so that we can have very long expiries on the post pages, only occassionally decaching them on a new comment or trackback. This is also already in our branch and seems to be working correctly.
WP 2.1 compatibility
Various smaller things: performances fixes, better UTF8 support for tags, improvements to Comment Spam handling, SEO
I have started committing the openid stuff in svn, and I still have to find a way to bring over the caching without breaking too many already existing installations.