Blender 2.44 is out!
The bad news (for Windows users only): Blender 2.44 is compiled against Python 2.5. For Linux there are Python 2.4 and 2.5 binaries.
This means if you are on Windows and don’t have a standard Python 2.5 installation some scripts won’t work. One of these scripts seems to be chicken 
Hmm… perhaps it is time to upgrade to Python 2.5.1.
enn0x
@drwr or yosh: any chance than one of the next Panda3D releases will use Python 2.5 too?