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[David Kowis <dkowis AT shlrm.org>]

Andrew wrote:
> I (finally) finished all the sorcery 1.12 feature work. I plan to
> integrate devel sorcery (1.12) into test in about 48 hours unless some
> major bugs are found in devel (after fixing those bugs we'll restart
> the 48 hour clock). The sorcery test branch will then become version
> 1.12.0-rc1. I'd like everyone who can to try out test sorcery and file
> bugs if anything goes wrong. The usual cycle of new rc releases will
> start as bugs are found/fixed. After going a sufficient amount of time
> with no complaints, stable sorcery 1.12.0 will be released.
>
> Theres a bunch of new stuff in this release that I'd really like to have
> tested by a wider audience:
>
> * tablet (the "installed grimoire"), if you dont know already, this is
> the answer to storing more spell state information than was possible. This
> helps us do certain things more intelligently.
>
> * cleanse has a --tablet option
>
> * resurrect was re-written, let me know if there are any problems with it
>
> * new filter functions, in addition to excluded and protected there are
> now "volatiles" and "configs" filter files. Volatile files are ignored
> by cleanse's md5sum check. Config's are treated more carefully by dispel
> and resurrect, config files aren't blatently replaced or removed if we
> detect they are changed. Spell's can also have their own spell level
> filters by just adding a file by the name of the filter to the spell
> directory. The format has also changed to regexp.
>
> * scribe has been cleaned up and almost entirely re-written
>
> * support for gpg checking of sorcery and grimoire tarballs 
Woo hoo! That's awesome!
> * init and xinetd script handling has been re-written per bug 1817
>
> And probably lots of other stuff im forgetting...
>
> -Andrew

Thanks for all the hard work making Source Mage a better distro. 

Now if i'll just get up off my lazy butt and write the installer ;)
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