From: alterego@...
Date: 2007-12-25T10:58:01+09:00
Subject: Re: pre-release note for the christmas release.

On Tue, Dec 25, 2007 at 02:32:54AM +0900, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I think I have almost done the basic design & implementation work for
> _1.9.0_, which is going to be released today.
> 
> A few notes before the release:
> 
>   * The relase version will be 1.9.0, not 1.9.1 as we have
>     announced before.  This denotes the fact it is not as
>     stable as we expected.  But the all incompatible changes
>     are done already.
> 
>   * There already are some known bugs.  The relase note will
>     include the number of failed tests from standard "make test" 
>     and "make test-all".
> 
>   * The release will be planed to be 3:00pm Japanese Standard Time,
>     which is 9 hours ahead of UTC.  It may be delayed as we have
>     suffered in the previous releases.  We try our best not to be too
>     late.
> 
>   * THE 1.9 IS INCOMPATIBLE.  YOUR APPLICATION MAY NOT WORK AS IT IS.
>     The porting know-how (or porting tools maybe) will not provided as
>     of the first release.
> 
> Thank you for your kind cooperation.
> 
> 							matz.

Thanks Matz, You're my hero. Have a merry Christmas :)

  - Tom