Potato release notes seem to be progressing nicely. Joey Hess seems to have distilled my verbiage into something worth reading. Perhaps if there's call for a book-length version of the release announcement, I'll write it. ;-)
reportbug: no bugreps is good news. 1.1r4 must have been fine... or at least runnable. I think I took "release early and often" a bit too far...
New HTML Parser: The long-awaited libxml2 based HTML parser code is live. It needs further work but already handles most markup better than the original parser.
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