It's been a very long time in the making, but MySQLdb has finally been released on the 60th anniversary of the Allied invasion of Europe. 1.0.0 really should have been released a year or more ago, but I have not had as much time as I once did, and there were technical issues that I finally decided to push off to the 1.1-1.2 series, which drop support for very old versions of Python. Look for 1.2 to arrive within the next month, but don't hold your breath, either.