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diff --git a/RELEASE.txt b/RELEASE.txt index 82a0c5a..695e2c6 100644 --- a/RELEASE.txt +++ b/RELEASE.txt @@ -1,15 +1,37 @@ - A new SCons checkpoint release, 3.0.0, is now available + A new SCons checkpoint release, 3.0.1, is now available on the SCons download page: http://www.scons.org/download.php + XXX The primary purpose of this release ... XXX - Here is a summary of the changes since 2.5.1: + A SCons "checkpoint release" is intended to provide early access to + new features so they can be tested in the field before being released + for adoption by other software distributions. + + Note that a checkpoint release is developed using the same test-driven + development methodology as all SCons releases. Existing SCons + functionality should all work as it does in previous releases (except + for any changes identified in the release notes) and early adopters + should be able to use a checkpoint release safely for production work + with existing SConscript files. If not, it represents not only a bug + in SCons but also a hole in the regression test suite, and we want to + hear about it. + + New features may be more lightly tested than in past releases, + especially as concerns their interaction with all of the other + functionality in SCons. We are especially interested in hearing bug + reports about new functionality. + + We do not recommend that downstream distributions (Debian, Fedora, + etc.) package a checkpoint release, mainly to avoid confusing the + "public" release numbering with the long checkpoint release names. + + Here is a summary of the changes since 1.3.0: NEW FUNCTIONALITY - - Initial support for Python 3.5+ - - I + - List new features (presumably why a checkpoint is being released) DEPRECATED FUNCTIONALITY @@ -48,4 +70,4 @@ Contributors are listed alphabetically by their last name. Copyright (c) 2001 - 2017 The SCons Foundation -src/RELEASE.txt rel_3.0.0:4395:8972f6a2f699 2017/09/18 12:59:24 bdbaddog +src/RELEASE.txt 74b2c53bc42290e911b334a6b44f187da698a668 2017/11/14 13:16:53 bdbaddog |