Updating the Release.py. Also fixed a typo in the docs.

IPython/Release.py

@@ -34,14 +34,19 b' else:'
     version = version_base
 
 
-description = "Tools for interactive development in Python."
+description = "An interactive computing environment for Python"
 
 long_description = \
 """
-IPython provides a replacement for the interactive Python interpreter with
-extra functionality.
+The goal of IPython is to create a comprehensive environment for
+interactive and exploratory computing.  To support this goal, IPython
+has two main components:
 
-Main features:
+* An enhanced interactive Python shell.
+
+* An architecture for interactive parallel computing.
+
+The enhanced interactive Python shell has the following main features:
 
  * Comprehensive object introspection.
 
@@ -64,14 +69,33 b' Main features:'
 
  * Access to the system shell with user-extensible alias system.
 
- * Easily embeddable in other Python programs.
+* Easily embeddable in other Python programs and wxPython GUIs.
 
  * Integrated access to the pdb debugger and the Python profiler. 
 
- The latest development version is always available at the IPython subversion
- repository_.
+The parallel computing architecture has the following main features:
+
+* Quickly parallelize Python code from an interactive Python/IPython session.
+
+* A flexible and dynamic process model that be deployed on anything from 
+  multicore workstations to supercomputers.
+
+* An architecture that supports many different styles of parallelism, from
+  message passing to task farming.
+
+* Both blocking and fully asynchronous interfaces.
+
+* High level APIs that enable many things to be parallelized in a few lines
+  of code.
+
+* Share live parallel jobs with other users securely.  
+
+* Dynamically load balanced task farming system.
+
+* Robust error handling in parallel code.
 
-.. _repository: http://ipython.scipy.org/svn/ipython/ipython/trunk#egg=ipython-dev
+The latest development version is always available from IPython's `Launchpad 
+site <http://launchpad.net/ipython>`_.
  """
 
 license = 'BSD'

docs/source/overview.txt

@@ -14,7 +14,7 b' However, the interpreter supplied with the standard Python distribution'
 is somewhat limited for extended interactive use.
 
 The goal of IPython is to create a comprehensive environment for
-interactive and exploratory computing.  To support, this goal, IPython
+interactive and exploratory computing.  To support this goal, IPython
 has two main components:
 
 * An enhanced interactive Python shell.