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-            Roundup 0.4.0b1 - an issue tracking system
+I'm proud to release version 1.4.10 of Roundup which fixes some bugs:
 
-If you are upgrading please read MIGRATION.txt.
+- Minor update of doc/developers.txt to point to the new resources
+  on www.roundup-tracker.org (Bernhard Reiter)
+- Small CSS improvements regaring the search box (thanks Thomas Arendsan Hein)
+  (issue 2550589)
+- Indexers behaviour made more consistent regarding length of indexed words
+  and stopwords (thanks Thomas Arendsen Hein, Bernhard Reiter)(issue 2550584)
+- fixed typos in the installation instructions (thanks Thomas Arendsen Hein)
+  (issue 2550573) 
+- New config option csv_field_size: Pythons csv module (which is used
+  for export/import) has a new field size limit starting with python2.5.
+  We now issue a warning during export if the limit is too small and use
+  the csv_field_size configuration during import to set the limit for
+  the csv module.
+- Small fix for CGI-handling of XMLRPC requests for python2.4, this
+  worked only for 2.5 and beyond due to a change in the xmlrpc interface
+  in python
+- Document filter method of xmlrpc interface
+- Fix interaction of SSL and XMLRPC, now XMLRPC works with SSL
 
-Roundup requires python 2.1.1 for correct operation. Support for dumbdbm
-requires python 2.1.2 or 2.2.
+If you're upgrading from an older version of Roundup you *must* follow
+the "Software Upgrade" guidelines given in the maintenance documentation.
 
-Big stuff in this release:
-  - Use of transactions to prevent partial data commits
-  - Zope Product front-end
-  - Nicer, more consistent change message generation
-  - Several bug fixes
-  - Much, much more: see the CHANGES file for details.
+Roundup requires python 2.3 or later (but not 3+) for correct operation.
 
-Source and documentation is available at the website:
-     http://roundup.sourceforge.net/
+To give Roundup a try, just download (see below), unpack and run::
 
-Release Info (via download page):
-     http://sourceforge.net/projects/roundup
+    roundup-demo
 
+Release info and download page:
+     http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/roundup
+Source and documentation is available at the website:
+     http://roundup.sourceforge.net/
 Mailing lists - the place to ask questions:
      http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=31577
 
 
-
 About Roundup
 =============
 
-Roundup is a simple-to-use and -install issue-tracking system with 
-command-line, web and e-mail interfaces. It is based on the winning design 
+Roundup is a simple-to-use and -install issue-tracking system with
+command-line, web and e-mail interfaces. It is based on the winning design
 from Ka-Ping Yee in the Software Carpentry "Track" design competition.
 
-Note: Ping is not responsible for this project. The contact for this project 
-is richard@users.sourceforge.net.
+Note: Ping is not responsible for this project. The contact for this
+project is richard@users.sourceforge.net.
+
+Roundup manages a number of issues (with flexible properties such as
+"description", "priority", and so on) and provides the ability to:
+
+(a) submit new issues,
+(b) find and edit existing issues, and
+(c) discuss issues with other participants.
 
-Roundup manages a number of issues (with flexible properties such as 
-"description", "priority", and so on) and provides the ability to
- (a) submit new issues,
- (b) find and edit existing issues, and
- (c) discuss issues with other participants.
 The system will facilitate communication among the participants by managing
 discussions and notifying interested parties when issues are edited. One of
 the major design goals for Roundup that it be simple to get going. Roundup
-is therefore usable "out of the box" with any python 2.0+ installation. It
-doesn't even need to be "installed" to be operational, though a
-disutils-based install script is provided.
+is therefore usable "out of the box" with any python 2.3+ (but not 3+)
+installation. It doesn't even need to be "installed" to be operational,
+though an install script is provided.
+
+It comes with two issue tracker templates (a classic bug/feature tracker and
+a minimal skeleton) and four database back-ends (anydbm, sqlite, mysql
+and postgresql).
 
-It comes with two issue tracker templates and three database back-ends.