ctools 7.x-1.0-alpha3

Numerous bug fixes, and some new stuff to help facilitate Views integration. Proper entity integration. Panels node form now supports entity fields, making node forms much nicer than they were in D6.

If you update CTools and are running Panels, please be sure to update Panels at the same time.

Known issues:

• Some modules' javascript interferes with the AJAX operations of CTools at times. In particular, colorbox is known to, and apparently toolbar can, though this is not confirmed. There is an issue for colorbox -- the fix is to make sure you actually have the colorbox library properly installed.
• Image field formatter settings sometimes don't stick. We can't currently figure out why, but we can't seem to reproduce it in a clean environment.