Of course, I'm not yet at MT 4.0, and I still don't understand the branching between MTn and MT Open Source, but ... MT 4.1 is going into beta.

• It's Faster! We've made performance improvements across the board for everythign from publishing to reducing the size of the scripts that load when you want to write a post.
• User Interface Improvements. There are minor tweaks all over the application to make creating and managing your content easier.
• Global Templates. Now you can easily create templates or widgets that are shared across all the blogs in your system.
• Avatars/User Pictures. Authors and commenters can upload an image or icon for themselves that will show up next to their entries and comments.
• Asset Editing. Whether it's audio, photos, videos or uploaded files, you can view and edit information like the size of a file and its tags, and even see which entries or pages that asset appears in.
• Template Sets. You can create, share and use entire sets of templates between different Movable Type blogs, including all of the stylesheets and feeds for your site. For designers, it's a great way to deliver a design to your clients.
• Smart Template Tag Documentation. Just use any of Movable Type's template tags in designing a template, and the system will automatically provide you with a link to the documentation for that tag -- handy!
• Better API suport for Pages. Using tools like Windows Live Writer, you can now create and manage Movable Type's pages just as easily as you work with your entries.
• Tons more. There are lots of little improvements all over the platform -- like the ability to replicate published content across multiple servers, or to plug in your own rich text editor like FCKEdit.

Some good sounding stuff here.

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