Watir 1.5.2 has been released and is now available on Rubyforge. When you run 'gem install watir' from the command line you will get an option to install the latest version 1.5.2, this version should be backwards compatible with scripts using Watir 1.4.1.

Among the many significant changes in this version of Watir:

• additional tags: headers, maps, areas, lists
• multiple tags for non input elements
• watir-console - irb with a local log (run watir-console at the command line)
• additional documentation both through the watir wiki and rdocs
• Additional assertions and a wait_until method
• Improved support for popups and support for IE specific modal dialogs
• Methods supported by Element is a handy cheat sheet to the new elements and how to refer to existing html elements.
• Support for parent, new accessors :after? and :before?
• Ability to start IE as a new process: new_process and start_process
• Code cleanup, restructuring and a new contrib area for user contribs
• Many bug fixes

A full set of changes is available in the change logs through fisheye