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The Quicktabs module now has a stable release on two Drupal 6 branches (that's right, it never had a stable D6 release until a few weeks ago :-/) and on two D7 branches. The 7.x-3.x branch represents a complete rewrite of the module, providing much greater flexibility in what can be done with it.

When the Quick Tabs module was first conceived, it was meant as a space saving device that would replicate a feature becoming quite common on news websites: the little "Most emailed / Most popular" block, where you'd have two tabs, each showing about 5 items (node titles with links to the nodes), and that would be that. Of course I wasn't so short-sighted as to limit it to two tabs (I limited it to 10), but I didn't imagine there'd be much more people could want out of it. Well, my issue queue soon proved me very wrong.

At last I overcame my fear of Views 2.0 and have added it to my D6 effort for Quick Tabs. (Previously my D6 version only allowed you to add blocks to your tabs.) My colleague, Hubert a.k.a. couzinhub, having quickly jumped in and familiarised himself with the wonders of Views 2.0 (well, after all he did help with the UI), helped me out with a very enthusiastic run-though of displays, overriding default displays, etc. and generally getting an overview of the lay of the land in the beta4 release of this super-module.