diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index efc11a0..ccc9fd9 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,2 +1 @@
-application/logs/*
-application/cache/*
\ No newline at end of file
+*.DS_Store
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/README.markdown b/README.markdown
index e69de29..3766cf9 100644
--- a/README.markdown
+++ b/README.markdown
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+# Kohana PHP Framework, version 3.0 (dev)
+
+This is the current development version of [Kohana](http://kohanaphp.com/).
diff --git a/application/cache/.gitignore b/application/cache/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..80e609a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/application/cache/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+[^.]*
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/application/log/.gitignore b/application/log/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..80e609a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/application/log/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+[^.]*
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/index.php b/index.php
index 0410483..e8e5c57 100644
--- a/index.php
+++ b/index.php
@@ -1,32 +1,65 @@
 <?php
-
+/**
+ * The directory in which your application specific resources are located.
+ * The application directory must contain the config/kohana.php file.
+ * 
+ * @see  http://docs.kohanaphp.com/install#application
+ */
 $application = 'application';
 
+/**
+ * The directory in which shared resources are located. Each module must be
+ * contained within its own directory.
+ * 
+ * @see  http://docs.kohanaphp.com/install#modules
+ */
 $modules = 'modules';
 
+/**
+ * The directory in which the Kohana resources are located. The system
+ * directory must contain the classes/kohana.php file.
+ * 
+ * @see  http://docs.kohanaphp.com/install#system
+ */
 $system = 'system';
 
+/**
+ * The default extension of resource files. If you change this, all resources
+ * must be renamed to use the new extension.
+ * 
+ * @see  http://docs.kohanaphp.com/install#ext
+ */
 define('EXT', '.php');
 
-define('DOCROOT', str_replace('\\', '/', pathinfo(__FILE__, PATHINFO_DIRNAME)).'/');
+//
+//                 END OF CONFIGURATION, DO NOT EDIT BELOW!
+// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+//
+
+// Define the name of the front controller
+define('FC_FILE', basename(__FILE__));
+
+// Define the absolute paths for configured directories
+define('DOCROOT', str_replace('\\', '/', realpath(getcwd())).'/');
 define('APPPATH', str_replace('\\', '/', realpath($application)).'/');
 define('MODPATH', str_replace('\\', '/', realpath($modules)).'/');
 define('SYSPATH', str_replace('\\', '/', realpath($system)).'/');
 
+// Clean up the configuration vars
 unset($application, $modules, $system);
 
 if (file_exists('install'.EXT))
 {
-	// Installation check
+	// Load the installation check
 	include 'install'.EXT;
 }
 elseif (file_exists(APPPATH.'bootstrap'.EXT))
 {
-	// Custom boostrap
+	// Load the custom bootstrap
 	include APPPATH.'bootstrap'.EXT;
 }
 else
 {
-	// Default bootstrap
+	// Load the default bootstrap
 	include SYSPATH.'bootstrap'.EXT;
 }
diff --git a/install.php b/install.php
index 59a1219..da87dfd 100644
--- a/install.php
+++ b/install.php
@@ -8,9 +8,9 @@
 	<title>Kohana Installation</title>
 
 	<style type="text/css">
-	body { width: 42em; margin: 0 auto; font-family: sans-serif; }
-	h1 { letter-spacing: -0.05em; }
-	h1 + p { width: 75%; margin: 0 0 2em; color: #666; font-style: italic; font-size:90%; }
+	body { width: 42em; margin: 0 auto; font-family: sans-serif; background: #fff; font-size: 1em; }
+	h1 { letter-spacing: -0.04em; }
+	h1 + p { margin: 0 0 2em; color: #333; font-size: 90%; font-style: italic; }
 	code { font-family: monaco, monospace; }
 	table { border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%; }
 		table th,
@@ -70,6 +70,14 @@
 				<td class="fail">The configured <code>modules</code> directory does not exist or does not contain required files.</td>
 			<?php endif ?>
 		</tr>
+		<tr>
+			<th>Cache Directory</th>
+			<?php if (is_dir(APPPATH) AND is_dir(APPPATH.'cache') AND is_writable(APPPATH.'cache')): ?>
+				<td class="pass"><?php echo APPPATH.'cache' ?></td>
+			<?php else: $failed = TRUE ?>
+				<td class="fail">The <code><?php echo APPPATH.'cache' ?></code> directory is not writable.</td>
+			<?php endif ?>
+		</tr>
 		<tr>
 			<th>PCRE UTF-8</th>
 			<?php if ( ! @preg_match('/^.$/u', 'ñ')): $failed = TRUE ?>
@@ -127,7 +135,8 @@
 	<?php if ($failed === TRUE): ?>
 		<p id="results" class="fail">✘ Kohana may not work correctly with your environment.</p>
 	<?php else: ?>
-		<p id="results" class="pass">✔ Your environment passed all requirements.<br />Remove or rename the <code>install<?php echo EXT ?></code> file now.</p>
+		<p id="results" class="pass">✔ Your environment passed all requirements.<br />
+			Remove or rename the <code>install<?php echo EXT ?></code> file now.</p>
 	<?php endif ?>
 
 </body>
diff --git a/media/css/grid.css b/media/css/grid.css
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e69de29
diff --git a/media/css/print.css b/media/css/print.css
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e69de29
diff --git a/media/css/reset.css b/media/css/reset.css
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e69de29
diff --git a/media/css/web.css b/media/css/web.css
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e69de29
diff --git a/media/img/kohana.png b/media/img/kohana.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..85f7743
Binary files /dev/null and b/media/img/kohana.png differ
diff --git a/system/bootstrap.php b/system/bootstrap.php
index 827f205..ba10899 100644
--- a/system/bootstrap.php
+++ b/system/bootstrap.php
@@ -28,9 +28,6 @@ else
 	define('SERVER_UTF8', FALSE);
 }
 
-// Default output type is UTF-8 text/html
-header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8');
-
 // Load the main Kohana class
 require SYSPATH.'classes/kohana'.EXT;
 
@@ -44,15 +41,12 @@ $_COOKIE = utf8::clean($_COOKIE);
 $_SERVER = utf8::clean($_SERVER);
 
 
-/*
 $route = Route::factory('(:controller(/:method(/:id)))')
 	->defaults(array('controller' => 'welcome', 'method' => 'index'));
 
-
-echo Kohana::debug($route->matches('uploads/doc/foo.xml'));
-*/
 $route = Route::factory('(:path/):file(.:format)', array('path' => '.*'));
 
-$view = View::factory('test');
+echo Kohana::debug($route->matches('uploads/doc/foo.xml'));
 
-echo $view->render();
\ No newline at end of file
+// Shutdown the environment
+Kohana::shutdown();
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/system/classes/kohana.php b/system/classes/kohana.php
index dac54aa..f729927 100644
--- a/system/classes/kohana.php
+++ b/system/classes/kohana.php
@@ -16,14 +16,23 @@
  */
 final class Kohana {
 
+	// Command line instance
+	public static $cli_mode = FALSE;
+
+	// Client request method
+	public static $request_method = 'GET';
+
+	// Default charset for all requests
+	public static $charset = 'UTF-8';
+
 	// Has the environment been initialized?
 	private static $init = FALSE;
 
 	// Include paths that are used to find files
 	private static $include_paths = array(APPPATH, SYSPATH);
 
-	// Cache for class methods
-	private static $cache = array();
+	// Cache for resource location
+	private static $file_path;
 
 	/**
 	 * Initializes the environment:
@@ -39,12 +48,54 @@ final class Kohana {
 		if (self::$init === TRUE)
 			return;
 
+		// Enable auto-loading of classes
 		spl_autoload_register(array(__CLASS__, 'auto_load'));
 
+		// Load the file path cache
+		self::$file_path = Kohana::cache('kohana_file_paths');
+
+		if (PHP_SAPI === 'cli')
+		{
+			// The current instance is being run via the command line
+			self::$cli_mode = TRUE;
+		}
+		else
+		{
+			if (isset($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD']))
+			{
+				// Let the server determine the request method
+				self::$request_method = strtoupper($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD']);
+			}
+		}
+
+		/*
+		if ($hooks = self::find_file('hooks'))
+		{
+			foreach ($hooks as $hook)
+			{
+				// Load each hook in the order they appear
+				require $hook;
+			}
+		}
+		*/
+
+
 		// The system has been initialized
 		self::$init = TRUE;
 	}
 
+	/**
+	 * The last method before Kohana stops processing the request:
+	 *
+	 * - Saves the file path cache
+	 *
+	 * @return  void
+	 */
+	public function shutdown()
+	{
+		Kohana::cache('kohana_file_paths', self::$file_path);
+	}
+
 	/**
 	 * Finds the path of a file by directory, filename, and extension.
 	 * If no extension is give, the default EXT extension will be used.
@@ -66,25 +117,41 @@ final class Kohana {
 		// Use the defined extension by default
 		$ext = ($ext === NULL) ? EXT : '.'.$ext;
 
-		// Full (relative) path name
+		// Create a partial path of the filename
 		$file = $dir.'/'.$file.$ext;
 
-		if (isset(self::$cache[__FUNCTION__][$file]))
+		if (isset(self::$file_path[$file]))
 		{
-			return self::$cache[__FUNCTION__][$file];
+			// The path to this file has already been found
+			return self::$file_path[$file];
 		}
 
 		foreach (self::$include_paths as $path)
 		{
 			if (file_exists($path.$file))
 			{
-				return self::$cache[__FUNCTION__][$file] = $path.$file;
+				// Cache and return the path to this file
+				return self::$file_path[$file] = $path.$file;
 			}
 		}
 
 		return FALSE;
 	}
 
+	/**
+	 * Loads a file within a totally empty scope and returns the output:
+	 *
+	 *     $foo = Kohana::load_file('foo.php');
+	 *
+	 * @param   string
+	 * @return  mixed
+	 */
+	public function load_file($file)
+	{
+		// Return the output of the file
+		return include $file;
+	}
+
 	/**
 	 * Provides auto-loading support of Kohana classes, as well as transparent
 	 * extension of classes that have a _Core suffix.
@@ -93,7 +160,7 @@ final class Kohana {
 	 * lowercase and converting underscores to slashes:
 	 *
 	 *     // Loads classes/my/class/name.php
-	 *     Kohana::auto_load('My_Class_Name')
+	 *     Kohana::auto_load('My_Class_Name');
 	 *
 	 * @param   string   class name
 	 * @param   string   file extensions to use
@@ -101,10 +168,12 @@ final class Kohana {
 	 */
 	public static function auto_load($class)
 	{
+		// Transform the class name into a path
 		$file = str_replace('_', '/', strtolower($class));
 
 		if ($path = self::find_file('classes', $file))
 		{
+			// Load the class file
 			require $path;
 		}
 		else
@@ -114,6 +183,7 @@ final class Kohana {
 
 		if ($path = self::find_file('extensions', $file))
 		{
+			// Load the extension file
 			require $path;
 		}
 		elseif (class_exists($class.'_Core', FALSE))
@@ -131,13 +201,67 @@ final class Kohana {
 			}
 
 			// Transparent class extensions are possible using eval. Not very
-			// clean, but it can be avoided by creating empty extensions.
+			// clean, but it can be avoided by creating empty extension files.
 			eval($extension);
 		}
 
 		return TRUE;
 	}
 
+	/**
+	 * Provides simple file-based caching. All caches are serialized and
+	 * stored as a hash.
+	 *
+	 *     // Set the "foo" cache
+	 *     Kohana::cache('foo', 'hello, world');
+	 *
+	 *     // Get the "foo" cache
+	 *     $foo = Kohana::cache('foo');
+	 *
+	 * @param   string   name of the cache
+	 * @param   mixed    data to cache
+	 * @param   integer  number of seconds the cache is valid for
+	 * @return  mixed    for getting
+	 * @return  boolean  for setting
+	 */
+	public function cache($name, $data = NULL, $lifetime = 60)
+	{
+		// Cache file is a hash of the name
+		$file = sha1($name);
+
+		// Cache directories are split by keys
+		$dir = APPPATH.'cache/'.$file[0].'/';
+
+		if ($data === NULL)
+		{
+			if (is_file($dir.$file))
+			{
+				if ((time() - filemtime($dir.$file)) < $lifetime)
+				{
+					// Return the cache
+					return unserialize(file_get_contents($dir.$file));
+				}
+				else
+				{
+					// Cache has expired
+					unlink($dir.$file);
+				}
+			}
+
+			// Cache not found
+			return NULL;
+		}
+
+		if ( ! is_dir($dir))
+		{
+			// Create the cache directory
+			mkdir($dir, 0777);
+		}
+
+		// Serialize the data and create the cache
+		return (bool) file_put_contents($dir.$file, serialize($data));
+	}
+
 	/**
 	 * Returns an HTML string of debugging information about any number of
 	 * variables, each wrapped in a <pre> tag:
@@ -154,13 +278,13 @@ final class Kohana {
 		if (func_num_args() === 0)
 			return;
 
-		// Get params
-		$params = func_get_args();
-		$output = array();
+		// Get all passed variables
+		$variables = func_get_args();
 
-		foreach ($params as $var)
+		$output = array();
+		foreach ($variables as $var)
 		{
-			$output[] = '<pre>('.gettype($var).') '.htmlspecialchars(print_r($var, TRUE)).'</pre>';
+			$output[] = '<pre>('.gettype($var).') '.htmlspecialchars(print_r($var, TRUE), ENT_QUOTES, self::$charset, TRUE).'</pre>';
 		}
 
 		return implode("\n", $output);
diff --git a/system/classes/route.php b/system/classes/route.php
index abdc317..41dc408 100644
--- a/system/classes/route.php
+++ b/system/classes/route.php
@@ -82,6 +82,13 @@ class Route_Core {
 		{
 			$this->regex = $regex;
 		}
+
+		// Attempt to load the cached regex
+		if (($this->compiled = Kohana::cache('route:'.$uri)) === NULL)
+		{
+			// Compile and cache the compiled regex
+			Kohana::cache('route:'.$uri, $this->compiled = $this->compile());
+		}
 	}
 
 	/**
@@ -132,10 +139,7 @@ class Route_Core {
 	 */
 	public function matches($uri)
 	{
-		// Get the compiled regex
-		$regex = $this->compile();
-
-		if (preg_match('#'.$regex.'#', $uri, $matches))
+		if (preg_match('#'.$this->compiled.'#', $uri, $matches))
 		{
 			$params = array();
 			foreach ($matches as $key => $value)
@@ -168,19 +172,13 @@ class Route_Core {
 	}
 
 	/**
-	 * Returns the compiled regular expression for the route. The generated
-	 * pattern will be cached after it is compiled.
+	 * Returns the compiled regular expression for the route. This translates
+	 * keys and optional groups to a proper PCRE regular expression.
 	 *
 	 * @return  string
 	 */
 	protected function compile()
 	{
-		if (isset($this->cache[$this->uri]))
-		{
-			// The regex has already been compiled
-			return $this->cache[$this->uri];
-		}
-
 		// The URI should be considered literal except for keys and optional parts
 		// Escape everything preg_quote would escape except for : ( )
 		$this->uri = preg_replace('#'.Route::REGEX_ESCAPE.'#', '\\\\$0', $this->uri);
@@ -205,19 +203,24 @@ class Route_Core {
 			$regex = strtr($regex, $replace);
 		}
 
-		// Add anchors and cache the compiled regex
-		return $this->compiled = '^'.$regex.'$';
+		return '^'.$regex.'$';
 	}
 
+	/**
+	 * Compile a segment keys into a regular expression patterns.
+	 * 
+	 * @param   array   array of keys
+	 * @return  array
+	 */
 	protected function compile_keys(array $keys)
 	{
 		$groups = array();
 		foreach ($keys as $key)
 		{
-			// Get the key name
+			// Remove the colon from the key to get the name
 			$name = substr($key, 1);
 
-			// Name the matched segment
+			// Create a named regex match
 			$regex = '(?P<'.$name.'>';
 
 			if (isset($this->regex[$name]))