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   6 <h2>Current Releases</h2>
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   8 <p>
   9 The current "stable" release is 0.96.1.
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  13 The current testing pre-release is 0.96.92.
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  16 <h2>Upcoming Releases</h2>
  17
  18 Take these with a huge grain of salt,
  19 this is very rough planning
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  23 <th>Release</th>
  24 <th>Est. Date <font size="-1">(yeah, right)</font><th>
  25 <th>
  26 Goals
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  30 <td>0.96.93</td>
  31 <td>???</td>
  32 <td>
  33 Significant speed up of some specific configurations,
  34 plus accumulated patches.
  35 Fix for the one cosmetic bug found so far in 0.96.92.
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  39 <td>0.96.94</td>
  40 <td>???</td>
  41 <td>
  42 Testing pre-release of the "Big Signature Refactoring,"
  43 a significant re-design of internal data structures
  44 to accomplish the following:
  45   <ul>
  46   <li>
  47   Interoperability between MD5 signatures and timestamps.
  48   </li>
  49   <li>
  50   Ability to partition the dependency graph into separate SConstruct
  51   (not SConscript) files.
  52   </li>
  53   <li>
  54   Improved performance (we hope)
  55   </li>
  56   </ul>
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  60 <td>0.97</td>
  61 <td>???</td>
  62 <td>
  63 Wider release of the "Big Signature Refactoring."
  64 More extensive field testing before
  65 declaring the new internals ready to be
  66 blessed as the official 1.0 release.
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  69 <tr>
  70 <td>1.0</td>
  71 <td>???</td>
  72 <td>
  73 Official, stable release.
  74 No 1.x release will (knowingly) break compatibility
  75 or cause a rebuild on upgrade.
  76 </td>
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  79 <td>2.0</td>
  80 <td>???</td>
  81 <td>
  82 First release that will break backwards compatibility with Python 1.5.2.
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  93 <h2>Release Planning</h2>
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  95 <h3>Why has 1.0 still not been released?</h3>
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  97 <p>
  98 As seems so common these days,
  99 SCons has had an extremely lengthy "beta" period.
 100 The primary goal has been to arrive at something by 1.0
 101 that we feel is absolutely rock-solid-stable
 102 and which people can download and use without fear of
 103 broken builds or unnecessary rebuilds.
 104 To get some idea of how we do this, see our
 105 <a href="testing.html">testing philosophy</a> page.
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 107
 108 <h3>Release numbering</h3>
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