It's official, Robert "Easing Equations for Flash" Penner is joining the Flash development team at Adobe. Should be good news for all animators out there who were worried about new Flash features mostly focusing on application development. Mike Downey doesn't say much more but does drop one of those dreaded hype bombs:

I can't tell you specifically what he's working on, but I assure you that it will be one of the most exciting new features in the history of Flash.

Thank you Mike. Now, every other post in the community is going to be someone speculating over what that "most exciting new feature in the hisory of Flash" is...