Phusion Passenger 2.1.1 beta released – looks great

http://blog.phusion.nl/2009/03/01/phusion-passenger-211-beta-released-thanks-sponsors/

• Support for Rails 2.3
• Improved compatibility with other Apache modules, such as mod_rewrite
• Ruby 1.9 support
• Support for NFS setups
• Various I/O handling and scaling improvements and fixes
• Improved mod_xsendfile support.
• Ability to disable Phusion Passenger for arbitrary URLs (PassengerEnabled option)
• Improved application compatibility
• Better cross-platform support (including OS X)
• Non-interactive installer
• Improved command-line admin tools
• Ability to display backtraces for all threads
• Improved security
• More customization options for exotic systems/setups
• Various usability improvements
• Various other minor improvements and bug fixes

This thing is really starting to look like a great and simple way to deploy *real* apps.