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diff --git a/RELEASE.txt b/RELEASE.txt index fd60068..88d176e 100644 --- a/RELEASE.txt +++ b/RELEASE.txt @@ -1,73 +1,48 @@ - A new SCons checkpoint release, 2.3.6, is now available + A new SCons release, 2.4.0, is now available on the SCons download page: http://www.scons.org/download.php - XXX The primary purpose of this release ... XXX - - 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: + Here is a summary of the changes since 2.3.6: NEW FUNCTIONALITY - - List new features (presumably why a checkpoint is being released) + - None DEPRECATED FUNCTIONALITY - - List anything that's been deprecated since the last release + - None CHANGED/ENHANCED EXISTING FUNCTIONALITY - - List modifications to existing features, where the previous behavior - wouldn't actually be considered a bug + - None FIXES - - List fixes of outright bugs + - None IMPROVEMENTS - - List improvements that wouldn't be visible to the user in the - documentation: performance improvements (describe the circumstances - under which they would be observed), or major code cleanups + - Switched several core classes to use "slots", to + reduce the overall memory consumption in large + projects (fixes #2180, #2178, #2198) + - Memoizer counting uses decorators now, instead of + the old metaclasses approach. PACKAGING - - List changes in the way SCons is packaged and/or released + - Added new amd64 windows 64 bit installer DOCUMENTATION - - List any significant changes to the documentation (not individual - typo fixes, even if they're mentioned in src/CHANGES.txt to give - the contributor credit) + - None DEVELOPMENT - - List visible changes in the way SCons is developed + - None - Thanks to CURLY, LARRY, and MOE for their contributions to this release. + Thanks to Dirk Baechle, Andrew Featherstone for their contributions to this release. Contributors are listed alphabetically by their last name. Copyright (c) 2001 - 2015 The SCons Foundation -src/RELEASE.txt rel_2.3.5:3347:d31d5a4e74b6 2015/07/31 14:36:10 bdbaddog +src/RELEASE.txt rel_2.4.0:3365:9259ea1c13d7 2015/09/21 14:03:43 bdbaddog |