On Mon, 2012-12-17 at 12:26 -0500, Martin Owens wrote: 
On Mon, 2012-12-17 at 10:05 -0600, Ted Gould wrote:
> 
> It is pretty cool to be announcing the 0.48.4 release of Inkscape.
> It's a great bug fix release, which will hopefully tide people over
> until the upcoming 0.49.  There are a ton of bug fixes in this release
> including one security fix, so it is recommended that everyone
> currently using 0.48.3 or older upgrade tho this release.
> 
> As per custom please avoid announcing this widely until platform
> packagers have a chance to make binaries for people to download.

Who do we thank for this new version?

Oh, there are lots of people.  By just looking at the bugs you can see the wide variety of contributors:

https://launchpad.net/inkscape/0.48.x/0.48.4

Pick one (I'll do two) as always thinks go to ScislaC for herding and ~suv for ensuring that the bugs stay in good shape and land on the release branch.

Ted