{How \TeX\ and Meta finally got married} {Hans Hagen and Taco Hoekwater} {MetaPost 2.000 is planned for release in the summer of 2010. This presentation is a short report on the project history and current status. MetaPost version 1.500 was released around Bacho\TeX~2010, and in that release all memory arrays will have been replaced by dynamic memory allocation.}