was speculation that the two frameworks may finally be merging. However, the official TurboGears 2 documentation states that this is unlikely to happen, due to the "different, but compatible priorities" of both projects. Pylons wanted to stay focused on low level, extensible design while TurboGears was focused on offering a complete, user-friendly package, and so the two work together much in the same way Debian and Ubuntu do now. The new 2.x branch had its first stable release in May 2009. As of Fall 2008, TurboGears has a large and healthy community with over 3000 users on the TurboGears mailing list, a book from Prentice Hall published in Nov. '06, and a number of open-source and proprietary TurboGears applications deployed to the real world. The development progresses at a moderate but steady pace and was also newly fueled by a successful participation of the project as a Google Summer of Code mentoring organization in 2008 and 2009. TurboGears 1.1, aimed at helping legacy sites make the transition to 2.x, was released in October 2009. A new revision of the book is in the works to update it in line with the changes TurboGears 2 has brought. In 2010, the project faltered somewhat. The lead developers were called away due to real life issues. By the end of Jan, 2011, though, the project had begun reorganizing and working on getting back on track. After several months getting infrastructure in order and working through coding issues, TurboGears has managed to release new versions (2.0.4 and 2.1.2). In 2013, while maintaining backward compatibility, the project has moved away from the Pylons codebase to support Python 3, provide speed ups and an easier install process. This led to the release of version 2.3.0 in August 2013. It has also been announced a faster release cycle which should lead to a maintenance release every ~3 months. Future of TurboGears TurboGears development is now focused primarily on the new 2.x branch, with version 2.3 now being the main track with Python 3 support. A transition path from the 1.x branch to the 2.x branch is provided through the 1.1 and 1.5 releases which moved the default ORM and templating languages to match the one used by the 2.x series. The TurboGears team made it clear to new users that 2.x is the future, and 1.x is merely maintained for the convenience of existing users. During 2011