Version 0.6.1 is a bug fix release for 0.6. Most of the work on this release has been thanks to the contributions of Oleg Broytmann. Thanks Oleg!

A brief list of changes:

All class methods take a connection argument.
"DISTINCT" option for select results.
Connection objects have a new module attribute, to get access to the connection's exceptions.
New UnicodeCol() for encoding and decoding values from the database.
Added Indexing (patch from Jeremy Fitzhardinge).
Database connections explicitly closed, instead of just letting them be garbage collected.
selectBy can take be called with instances instead of only IDs for foreign key columns.
DBMConnection was removed (it's been broken a long time).

What Is SQLObject?

SQLObject is an Object-Relational Mapper. Basically it makes your database rows feel like (relatively) normal Python objects: Tables are classes, rows are instances, columns are attributes.

SQLObject both allows you to define your classes in Python, and SQLObject will create the tables on your behalf, or SQLObject may use database reflection to dynamically create a class given a table name. SQLObject portably supports a variety of database backends: MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Firebird, MaxDB/SAPDB, and SyBase.

SQLObject is being used in a variety of external projects: ezSqlObject, sqlos for Zope 3, and Subway (a Ruby on Rails clone), among others.

Where Is SQLObject?

Website:: http://sqlobject.org
News:: http://sqlobject.org/docs/News.html#sqlobject-0-6-1
Documentation:: http://sqlobject.org/docs/SQLObject.html
Subversion repository:: http://svn.colorstudy.com/trunk/SQLObject
Mailing list:: http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/sqlobject-discuss
Archives:: http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.sqlobject
Download:: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/sqlobject/SQLObject-0.6.1.tar.gz?download

Ian Bicking: the old part of his blog

SQLObject 0.6.1

What Is SQLObject?

Where Is SQLObject?