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4 A new SCons checkpoint release, 0.XX.0dYYYYMMDD, is now available at the
7 http://www.scons.org/download.php
9 A SCons "checkpoint release" is intended to provide early access to
10 new features so they can be tested in the field before being released
11 for adoption by other software distributions.
13 Note that a checkpoint release is developed using the same test-driven
14 development methdology as all SCons releases. Existing SCons
15 functionality should all work as it does in previous releases (except
16 for any changes identified in the release notes) and early adopters
17 should be able to use a checkpoint release safely for production work
18 with existing SConscript files. If not, it represents not only a bug
19 in SCons but also a hole in the regression test suite, and we want to
22 New features may be more lightly tested than in past releases,
23 especially as concerns their interaction with all of the other
24 functionality in SCons. We are especially interested in hearing bug
25 reports about new functionality.
27 We do not recommend that downstream distributions (Debian, Fedora,
28 etc.) package a checkpoint release, mainly to avoid confusing the
29 "public" release numbering with the long checkpoint release names.
31 Here is a summary of the changes since 0.XX:
35 - List new features (presumably why a checkpoint is being released)
37 DEPRECATED FUNCTIONALITY
39 - List anything that's been deprecated since the last release
41 CHANGED/ENHANCED EXISTING FUNCTIONALITY
43 - List modifications to existing features, where the previous behavior
44 wouldn't actually be considered a bug
48 - List fixes of outright bugs
52 - List improvements that wouldn't be visible to the user in the
53 documentation: performance improvements (describe the circumstances
54 under which they would be observed), or major code cleanups
58 - List changes in the way SCons is packaged and/or released
62 - List any significant changes to the documentation (not individual
63 typo fixes, even if they're mentioned in src/CHANGES.txt to give
64 the contributor credit)
68 - List visible changes in the way SCons is developed
70 Thanks to LARRY, MOE and CURLY for their contributions to this release.