Preliminary version for 0.6.1.

RELEASE

@@ -1,17 +1,13 @@
-Scsh 0.6.0 Release notes					-*- outline -*-
+Scsh 0.6.1 Release notes					-*- outline -*-
+
+We are pleased to release scsh version 0.6.1.  This release fixes most
+of the known bugs of the previous version. Users of version 0.6.0 are
+strongly encouraged to upgrade to the new version.
 
-We are pleased to release scsh version 0.6.0.  The new release is
-based on a newer version of Scheme 48 than the previous releases. The
-update of the underlying system is a massive switch and provides many
-new features, most notably a sophisticated thread system. We tried to
-make as less changes as possible to the API, see Section "API changes"
-for details. Unfortunately, due to the number of changes that were
-necessary to the internal structures, this release will probably
-contain some bugs. Don't hesitate to report bugs, we rely on your feedback!
 
 The text below gives a general description of scsh, instructions for obtaining
 it, pointers to discussion forums, and a description of the new features in
-release 0.6.0.  (Emacs should display this document is in outline mode. Say
+release 0.6.1.  (Emacs should display this document is in outline mode. Say
 c-h m for instructions on how to move through it by sections (e.g., c-c c-n,
 c-c c-p).)
 
@@ -25,8 +21,6 @@ Obtaining and installing scsh
 Getting in touch
 The World-Wide What?
 New in this release
-  Scsh is now based on Scheme 48 0.53  
-  Interface to dot-locking, crypt and syslog
   API changes
   Bugfixes
 Thanks
@@ -83,7 +77,7 @@ As important as full access to the OS is the manner in which it is provided.
 Scsh integrates the OS support into Scheme in a manner which respects the
 general structure of the language. The details of the design are discussed
 in a joint MIT Lab for Computer Science/University of Hong Kong technical
-report, "A Scheme Shell," also to appear in a revised format in the *Journal 
+report, "A Scheme Shell," also to appear in a revised format in the "Journal 
 of Lisp and Symbolic Computation."  This paper is also available by ftp:
     ftp://ftp.scsh.net/pub/scsh/papers/scsh-paper.ps
 
@@ -168,57 +162,12 @@ We now manage the project using SourceForge:
 * New in this release
 ====================
 
-** Scsh is now based on Scheme 48 0.53  
-  With the move from Scheme 48 version 0.36 to version 0.53 in this
-  release the underlying system received a massive update. The most
-  significant changes include:
-    User level threads
-    Advanced garbage collector
-    Improved foreign function interface to C
-
-  The most significant change for Scsh users is the addition of a
-  user-level thread system. Scsh provides various features to deal
-  with this new power in a system programming environment: An event
-  based interface to interrupts, thread local process state and
-  thread-safe system calls.
-
-** A manual for Scheme 48 has been included
-  Richard Kelsey, the author of Scheme 48, has graciously allowed us
-  to retrofit the current Scheme 48 manual for inclusion in this scsh
-  release.
-
-** Interfaces to dot-locking, crypt and syslog
-  Scsh now provides advisory file locking via the dot-locking scheme
-  and a direct binding to the crypt function. Furthermore we added
-  a complete, system-independent and thread-safe interface to syslog.
 
 ** API changes
-  Some features of the previous releases are currently not
-  supported as we did not have the time to implement them. Please tell
-  us, if you can't get along without them. Here is a listing of these
-  currently dereleased features:
-    select
-    select!
-    ODBC support
-    bufpol/line
 
-  The following procedures received new names in this release:
-    sleep (now process-sleep)
-    sleep-until (now process-sleep-until)
-
-  network-info, service-info and protocol-info now return #f on non-success.
-
-  The default directory for creating temporary files has changed: It's
-  now the value of $TMPDIR if set and /var/tmp otherwise.
-
-  The nth procedure is still there but is now officially obsolete.  It
-  will go away in a future release.
-
-** HTML version of the manual
-  There is now a HTML version of the scsh manual generated by tex2page
 
 ** Bugfixes
-  Most of the known bugs of version 0.5.3 have been fixed. See the
+  Most of the the known bugs of version 0.6.0 have been fixed. See the
   project page on SourceForge for a list of the remaining known bugs.
 
 
@@ -251,9 +200,6 @@ particularly in the task of porting scsh to new platforms.
     Dirk Staneker
 
 	
-We'd like to thank everyone else for their patience; we are sorry that
-it took more than two years from the start of the port to this release.
-
 Brought to you by the Scheme Underground. Go forth and write elegant systems
 programs.
     -Olin Shivers, Brian Carlstrom, Martin Gasbichler & Mike Sperber