I'm not sure if "Congratulations" are in order here (DBI is a rather critical module and an awful lot of work), but "Thank you for your service" certainly is.

Couple of small details regarding the 1.644 POD: Please mention youself as the current author/maintainer in the "Author" section. And, secondly, as far as i can tell Tim Bunce's webpage has moved to a different domain, this probably needs an update in the POD.