This release is mainly the work of Nathan Weizenbaum and Chris Eppstein, with a bunch of contributions from other Rubyists. I don't think Hampton worked on this release, and he hasn't been active in Haml/Sass development for a while. That's no knock on Hampton; there's just a tendency to give most of the credit to the initial author of anything (think Perl, or Linux), and in this case other people deserve a bunch of credit, too.
I still haven't updated, can anyone tell me is there a plan, or is it in as of now, to have html attributes the output the way I put them in haml and not alphabetically?
I've started using compass/960 a month ago or two, best thing since sliced bread!
There is a new attribute syntax that is more html-like. But, I'm not sure if the behavior you speak of has changed. That said, html attributes have no semantic order to them, so that change would be purely aesthetic.
I didn't have a chance yet to say thanks. I've asked about multiple load paths watch on compass group and it works now, and cache issues (bugs) on windows seem to be gone as of today - this is pure awesome!