SQLite's reliability is quite good. If you set pragma synchronous = full (the default in SQLite 3.0) and pragma fullfsync = 1 (for OS X, where they've decided to make fsync(2) dangerously worthless and nonstandard), SQLite is an ACID database. All bets are off if you corrupt its memory, which is possible since it runs in-process. Otherwise, it's the real deal.
New HTML Parser: The long-awaited libxml2 based HTML parser code is live. It needs further work but already handles most markup better than the original parser.
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