In his latest post, Tobias Schlitt mentions a first step they've made towards eZ components version 1.1 - a release of the 1.1beta1 version yesterday.

Included in the release are enhancements like sub-select and multi-join support for the query builder, parsing emails easily with the Mail component, and automatic help text generation via the ConsoleTools.

Two new components were also added - File (for dealing with all things filesystem) and SystemInformation (providing a wealth of knowledge about the system the scripts are on).