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[Nick Jennings <nkj AT namodn.com>]

Hi Everyone,

 Sorcery version 0.8.1 (1.0 BETA2) has been tagged in CVS and the tarball
 should be available on download.sourcemage.org within minutes.

 There have been *many* bug fixes, and minor feature enhancements in
 numerous areas. 

 One thing to note, is *DO NOT USE THE 'sorcery' SPELL* (this should
 actually have been removed, and should be shortly, but for now, just
 be aware). Use 'sorcery-devel' for nightly CVS tarballs or 'sorcery-stable'
 for 0.8.1 (and future stable releases).

 So the first thing you should do:

# cast -c -r sorcery-stable (or devel)
# sorcery update


- System Account Management: 

 One of the major new features is the introduction of the System Account 
 management for spells to create the accounts they need.

 Some of you may recall me asking for lists of accounts needed by
 spells some time ago, I've generated a system (hasn't been tested
 much <grin>) in /etc/sorcery/accounts & /etc/sorcery/groups.

 The function (in libgrimoire) for spells to use is:

create_account <account_name>

 If the account is registered in the accounts file, the account will
 be created with the UID assigned to it. This will ensure that spell
 accounts will not interfere with user-space UID's (1000+), and that
 the UID/GID's will be the same across systems.

 Guru's update your spells in devel (but don't advance it into 
 testing, or stable, because sorcery 0.8.x is only in devel).

 So, there you have it, test away. 

 Release Notes will be put up later tonight (no time right now) and
 you will be able to get them here:

 http://wiki.sourcemage.org/index.php?page=Sorcery+0.8.1+Release+Notes

 Thanks for all your help (i.e. testing and bug reports), and (as always)
 special thanks to the Sorcery Team (and our honorary member Ryan Abrams :)
 for all of the hard work.

-- 
 Nick Jennings
 Sorcery Team Lead