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    <a name="news"><h3>News</h3></a>
    <dl>
      <dt class="datebg">2009-04-01</dt>
      <dd>
        <h3>Important Note: missing archives due to server crash</h3>
        <p>
          Due to a severe server crash on 2009-03-24 and problems with
          some of the backups, still a lot of the old distribution
          archives are missing on this site. Furthermore, the daily
          snapshots from Tinderbox are not yet back to life. We hope to
          restore everything to working order within the next days.
        </p>
        <p>
          For the time being, please use the
          <a href="uploaded-archives/index.html">uploaded archives</a>
          if possible for recent installation archives, if any of the
          other links is broken.
        </p>
      </dd>
      <dt class="datebg">2008-11-06</dt>
      <dd>
        <p>
          New documentation has been added for
          <a href="doc/help/m3gdb/m3gdb-onepage.html"><tt>m3gdb</tt></a>.
        </p>
      </dd>
      <dt class="datebg">2008-06-21</dt>
      <dd>
        <p>
          CM3-IDE, formerly known as Reactor (tm), is now available in
          open source form, too. Have a look at the <a
          href="doc/help/CM3_IDE/user-guide.pdf">user guide</a> and
          compile the sources from cm3/cm3ide.
        </p>
      </dd>
      <dt class="datebg">2008-04-20</dt>
      <dd>
        <p>
          In the recent week, a new gcc backend has been imported into
          CM3 with improved support for X64 platforms:
        </p>
        <pre>
  % cm3cg -version
  Modula-3 backend (GCC) version 4.3.0 (i386-unknown-freebsd6.3)
          compiled by GNU C version 3.4.6 [FreeBSD] 20060305, GMP version 4.2.1, MPFR version 2.3.0.
        </pre>
        <p>
          The first X64 target platform has been added and
          successfully bootstrapped: AMD64_DARWIN. More are expected
          to follow soon.
        </p>
      </dd>
      <dt class="datebg">2008-03-17</dt>
      <dd>
        <p>
          Miscellaneous news items:
        </p>
        <ul>
          <li>
            Several new target platforms have been added to the tinderbox
            regression test framework.
          </li>
          <li>
            Trac has been installed as new ticket tracker, change
            control system and interaction platform. It's definitely
            not finished yet, but will continually be improved. If you
            want write access for the WiKi or administrative access,
            send a request to <a
            href="mailto:m3-support@elego.de">m3-support@elego.de</a>.
          </li>
          <li>
            Work on better Windows support, LONGINT support in the
            compiler, improved garbage collection etc. is
            ongoing.
          </li>
          <li>
            The port of Reactor(tm) to CM3_IDE has been finished and
            is currently being reviewed by the owner of the sources.
            We expect a release of this code as open source within the
            next weeks.
          </li>
        </ul>
      </dd>
      <dt class="datebg">2008-01-16</dt>
      <dd>
        <p>
          A regression test framework based on Tinderbox has been set
          up. Currently only two target platforms are build nightly,
          but more will be added. See the <a
            href="http://tinderbox.elegosoft.com/tinderbox/cm3/status.html" target="Main">Tinderbox Page</a> for details.
        </p>
        <p>
          There also is a
          <a href="logs/package-status.html" target="Main">package status</a>
          page based on recent build results.
        </p>
      </dd>
      <dt class="datebg">2007-12-18</dt>
      <dd>
        <p>
          Some new bootstrap archives are now available from the
          <a href="download.html">download page</a> labelled d5.5.0.
          This should help overcome the problems people run into when
          trying to build the current sources with the 5.4.0 release.
          Since the last release the compiler has been extended by a
          64 bit LONGINT type; work on the threading system and
          garbage collector has continued. This makes updating to
          current sources a bit more difficult.
          See the recently added <a href="changelog-index.html">CM3 ChangeLog</a>
          for details.
        </p>
        <p>
          This is no official release with the usual release
          engineering and testing, but just some compilations from the
          current CVS head. Nonetheless installations with these
          archives may be much easier for unexperienced users.
        </p>
        <p>
          Hopefully more archives will be built during the next days.
        </p>
      </dd>

      <dt class="datebg">2006-10-25</dt>
      <dd>
       <p>
       The CM3 5.4.0 release is now available from the
       <a href="download.html">download page</a>.
       The <a href="RELNOTES_5_4_0">release announcement</a> didn't make
       it into the 5.4.0 download archives, but is available online.
	 </p>
      </dd>
      <dt class="datebg">2006-08-08</dt>
      <dd>
       <p>
         There is now a web page about the
	 <a href="cm3-5.4-status.html">status of the upcoming cm3 5.4 release</a>.
	 </p>
      </dd>
      <dt class="datebg">2006-06-27</dt>
      <dd>
        <p>
          Recently, a lot of work has been done on CM3, its compiler,
          runtime, and further library support, which hasn't been
          communicated very well to interested parties. For some time,
          only development snapshots have been available as
          releases. The next complete release will be 5.4 and will very
          likely contain the following features:
        </p>
        <ul>
          <li>
            Support for incremental and generational garbage
            collection without virtual memory support of the
            underlying OS platform. This will make porting much
            easier. A detailed description of the work done in this
            area can be found in the article
            <a href="http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1133956.1133963">
               Portable, mostly-concurrent, mostly-copying garbage
               collection for multi-processors</a>. The new garbage
            collector also supports fast-path allocation
            for concurrent system-level threads.
          </li>
          <li>
            The traditional user-level threading system of M3 on
            POSIX platforms has been complemented by an operating
            system-level threading system on several platforms
            (currently SunOS, Linux, DarwinPPC). More
            implementations of system-level threads are expected.
            This allows the scheduling of CM3 threads on concurrent
            processors and will be appreciated by those implementing
            scalable and highly-responsive server processes in M3.
          </li>
          <li>
            The gcc-backend of the CM3 compiler has been upgraded to
            gcc releases 3.4 (already available) and 4.1.0
            (announced to work tomorrow :). This will bring new and
            improved support for current operating system / hardware
            platforms as well as improved code generation and
            optimization for existing targets.
          </li>
          <li>
            Current GDB support will improve debugging. A snapshot
            of the work is already available.
          </li>
          <li>
            Improved support for arithmetic calculations
            (m3-libs/arithmetic)
          </li>
          <li>
            Support for plotting (m3-libs/plplot)
          </li>
        </ul>
        <p>
          I'm pretty sure this list is still incomplete and should be
          extended by the contributor's.
        </p>
      </dd>
      <dt class="datebg">2006-06-22</dt>
      <dd>
        <p>
	   Rodney M. Bates provides a new version of the m3gdb
	   debugger. This version of m3gdb is based on gdb version
	   6.4. It is available for download from this site.
        </p>
      </dd>
      <dt class="datebg">2006-06-22</dt>
      <dd>
        <p>
           A new version d5.3.2 for CM3 is available for download from
           this website for the following OSs
        </p>
        <ul>
          <li>
	   Linux
          </li>
          <li>
	   FreeBSD 4.x
          </li>
          <li>
	   FreeBSD 6.x
          </li>
        </ul>
      </dd>
      <dt class="datebg">2005-05-12</dt>
      <dd>
        <p>
	  Stefan Sperling added support for NetBSD 2.x. His installation
          archive can be found at
            <a href="cm3-min-POSIX-NetBSD2_i386-d5.2.7-2005-03-31.tgz">
              cm3-min-POSIX-NetBSD2_i386-d5.2.7-2005-03-31.tgz</a>
          At this stage, bug reports should be sent directly to
	  stsp at elego dot de.
        </p>
      </dd>
      <dt class="datebg">2005-03-31</dt>
      <dd>
        <p>
          A new pre-release archive for CM3 5.2.7, labelled
          d5.2.7-2005-03-31, has been put up for HTTP access. The
          d5.2.7-2005-03-31 release fixes several bugs on recent Linux
          distributions, like Fedora 3 and Gentoo Linux.
        </p>
        <p>
  	  It has been compiled and tested on the following
          Linux systems:
        </p>
        <ul>
          <li>
	  Debian stable, Linux Kernel 2.4.29
          </li>
          <li>
	  Debian testing, Linux Kernel 2.4.29
          </li>
          <li>
	  Debian testing, Linux Kernel 2.6.11.4
          </li>
          <li>
	  Fedora 3, Linux Kernel 2.6.10-1.770_FC3
          </li>
        </ul>
      </dd>
      <dt class="datebg">2004-10-31</dt>
      <dd>
        <p>
          Several pre-release archives for CM3 5.2.7, labelled
          d5.2.7-2004-10-31, have been put up for HTTP access. So far,
          d5.2.7-2004-10-31 has been compiled successfully on the following
          systems:
        </p>
        <ul>
          <li>
            Linux gosg3.gosdomain 2.6.8.1 #1 Mon Sep 27 17:16:51 CEST
            2004 ppc unknown unknown GNU/Linux (Crux Linux for PPC)
          </li>
          <li>
            FreeBSD luthien.iceflower.in-berlin.de 4.10-RELEASE-p2
            FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE-p2 #10: Sun Jul  4 03:36:36 CEST 2004
            root@luthien.iceflower.in-berlin.de:/usr/src/sys/compile/LUTHIEN
            i386
          </li>
          <li>
            Linux birch 2.4.26 #2 Fri Jun 25 21:14:02 CEST 2004 i686
            unknown (Debian Stable for i386)
          </li>
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            powerpc (Open Darwin)
          </li>
          -->
        </ul>
        <p>
          Patches to compile CVSup with this latest release have also
          been put up on the <a href="download.html">download page</a>.
        </p>
      </dd>
      <dt class="datebg">2003-09-19</dt>
      <dd>
        <p>
          As the binary installation archive for the SOLgnu platform
          of the cm3 5.2.6 release contained compilation errors for
          which there is no workaround, the archive has been replaced
          with cm3-min-POSIX-SOLgnu-d5.2.7.tgz which is a snapshot of
          the current development tree and can be used instead.
        </p>
      </dd>
      <dt class="datebg">2003-07-16</dt>
      <dd>
        <p>
          <b>CM3 5.2.6</b> has been released. Apart from the new
          target platform PPC_LINUX (Linux running on PowerPCs), this
          release contains an upgrade of the code generator to gcc
          3.2.3, errno fixes for the latest glibc versions, and
          several more bug fixes and small extensions. Have a
          look at the <a href="RELNOTES_5_2_6">RELNOTES_5_2_6</a>
          for details.
        </p>
      </dd>
      <dt class="datebg">2003-04-05</dt>
      <dd>
        <p>
          Additional information about know problem for the 5.2.X
          releases of CM3 has been added to the
          <a href="known-problems.html">Known Problems</a> page.
        </p>
      </dd>
      <dt class="datebg">2003-03-26</dt>
      <dd>
        <p>
          <b>CM3 5.2.4</b> has been released. This is a maintenance
          release with several bug fixes and small extensions. Have a
          look at the <a href="RELNOTES_5_2_4">RELNOTES_5_2_4</a>
          for details.
        </p>
      </dd>
      <dt class="datebg">2003-02-10</dt>
      <dd>
        <p>
          <b>CM3 5.2.0</b> has been released. It features a completely
          new code generation back-end based on gcc 3.2.1 and support
          for the new target platform PPC_DARWIN (Darwin, MacOS X on
          PowerPC). The new code generator has one flaw: it cannot
          work with the table based exception frame implementation of
          the current front end, so this needs to be re-done. As a
          consequence, the new back-end is not recommended for all
          target platforms supporting stack walkers. This release is
          made to make support for the new target platform available
          for everybody. See <a href="RELNOTES_5_2_0">RELNOTES_5_2_0</a>
          for details.
        </p>
      </dd>
      <dt class="datebg">2002-04-08</dt>
      <dd>
        <p>
          The document archive has been updated. <a
          href="cm3-doc-5.1.8.tgz">cm3-doc-5.1.8.tgz</a> now contains
          all the current generated package documentation as of
          2002-04-08. CM3 now also includes <em>m3browser</em>, the
          well-known HTTP server that generates HTML documentation
          about installed packages on the fly, fully cross-referenced
          down to the type-level. <em>m3browser</em> has been imported
          from the PM3 distribution, together with the packages
          <em>m3scan</em> and <em>m3markup</em>, all of which reside
          in <em>m3-tools</em>. At the same time, some buffer
          implementations used in several packages have been extracted
          into their own library, <em>libbuf</em>. These changes are
          currently only available via CVS and CVSup.
        </p>
      </dd>
      <dt class="datebg">2002-04-02</dt>
      <dd>
        <p>
          I've added another <a href="src-update-2002-04-02.tgz">5.1.8
            fix archive</a> for those without CVSup and CVS
          ambitions. This archive contains all changed files since
          the 5.1.8 release of CM3.
        </p>
      </dd>
      <dt class="datebg">2002-02-19</dt>
      <dd>
        <p>
          You can now <a href="http://modula3.elegosoft.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/">browse
	   the CM3 CVS repository</a> online with your webbrowser.
	 </p>
      </dd>
      <dt class="datebg">2002-02-12</dt>
      <dd>
        <p>
          A bug in the binary installation archives of 5.1.8 for all
          POSIX platforms has been found. It is easy to fix,
          though. See
          <a href="known-problems.html#p_4_2">
            4.2 [Release 5.1.8] Linkage failure on POSIX platforms due
                to wrong paths (/pub/lang/m3/cm3-dist) in binary
                installation archives
          </a> for details. As this can be easily corrected manually
          after the installation, no new distribution archives have
          been created.
        </p>
      </dd>
      <dt class="datebg">2002-01-12</dt>
      <dd>
        <p>
          The master CVS repository for CM3 has been moved to
          modula3.elegosoft.com. This means that everybody who wants to
          work on the CM3 sources directly can get write access if he
          provides an ssh key (protocol version 2 (DSA)
          preferred). Send email to
          <a href="mailto:m3-support{at}elego.de">m3-support{at}elego.de</a>
          if you are interested, and have a look at the <a
          href="cm3-cm-rules.html">CM3 configuration management
          rules</a>.
        </p>
      </dd>
      <dt class="datebg">2002-01-11</dt>
      <dd>
        <p>
          A bug in the installation program has been fixed. See <a
          href="known-problems.html#p_4_1">4.1 Linkage failure:
          missing -L before library paths (installer bug)</a> for
          details. As this can be easily corrected manually after the
          installation, no new distribution archives have been
          created.
        </p>
      </dd>
      <dt class="datebg">2001-12-21</dt>
      <dd>
        <p>
          As always with new releases, some bugs appear right after
          creating the archives :-( Instead of building new release
          archives, I've created a <a href="src-update-2001-12-21.tgz">5.1.8
            fix archive</a> for those without CVSup and CVS ambitions.
        </p>
      </dd>
      <dt class="datebg">2001-12-20</dt>
      <dd>
        <p>
          CM3 5.1.8 has been released. New distribution archives have
          been placed on the servers for most of the active
          platforms. Changes include bug-fixes to the compiler
          (backend and quake interpreter), extraction of the system
          call wrappers from m3core into m3gc-enhanced, and addition of
          and fixes for lots of packages, concerning obliq, shared
          objects, graphics, and general useful libraries. A more
          detailed list of the changes can be found
          <a href="cm3-5.1.8-details.txt">here</a>.
        </p>
      </dd>
      <dt class="datebg">2001-11-25</dt>
      <dd>
        <p>
          Some new distribution archives have been placed on the server,
          including some fixes to the compiler and documentation. The
          current release number is now 5.1.6. Those who have installed
          5.1.3 or 5.1.4 should rather get the updates via CVSup or CVS
          than download the big distribution archives. Not all binary
          installation packages have been rebuilt and updated yet; a
          full build will probably be deferred until some of the more
          substantial changes currently in work are finished.
        </p>
      </dd>
      <dt class="datebg">2001-09-20</dt>
      <dd>
        <p>
          In addition to <a href="cvsup-cm3.html">CVSup access</a>, now
          <a href="cvs-cm3.html">anonymous CVS pserver access</a> has
          been set up, too.
        </p>
      </dd>
      <dt class="datebg">2001-09-19</dt>
      <dd>
        <p>
          <a href="src-update-2001-09-19.tgz"
             type="application/octet-stream">src-update-2001-09-19.tgz</a>
          has been added, which adds a fix for compilation of m3core on
          Linux systems using glibc 2.2, some minor package fixes, and
          the <a href="http://www.async.caltech.edu/~kp/parserlib/">parser
          tools</a> and <a href="http://www.async.caltech.edu/~kp/gmodule/">
            template generator</a> distribution from the California
          Institute of Technology, contributed by Karl
          Papadantonakis.
        </p>
        <p>
          Some progress has been made on improving the infrastructure
          of the cm3 source distribution: A <a href="cvsup-cm3.html">
            cm3 CVSup server</a> has been
          installed, and the cm3 repository is replicated once every
          night. As there are still unresolved issues with the domain
          registration for the machine the server is located on, it
          can currently only be contacted as
          ds217-115-141-112.dedicated.hosteurope.de or via IP number
          217.115.141.112. The CVSup server currently knows about the
          collections cm3, cm3-caltech-parser, cm3-doc, cm3-m3-comm,
          cm3-m3-db, cm3-m3-demo, cm3-m3-games, cm3-m3-lectern,
          cm3-m3-libs, cm3-m3-mail, cm3-m3-obliq, cm3-m3-pkgtools,
          cm3-m3-sys, cm3-m3-tools, cm3-m3-ui, cm3-m3-www,
          cm3-scripts, cm3-www. Anonymous CVS pserver access will be
          added soon, too.
        </p>
      </dd>
      <dt class="datebg">2001-05-12</dt>
      <dd>
        <p>
          <a href="src-update-2001-05-12.tgz"
             type="application/octet-stream">src-update-2001-05-12.tgz</a>
          has been added, which contains the differences between
          releases 5.1.3 and 5.1.4. These are: (1) A fix for
          m3core/src/text/TextSub.m3, (2) the addition of the <a
            href="http://www.research.compaq.com/SRC/juno-2/">Juno-2</a>
          packages, which contain a graphical constraint based editor,
          (3) a <tt>do-cm3-std.bat</tt> script (untested), and (4)
          several minor script fixes and improvements.
        </p>
        <p>
          5.1.4 is also available as the source archive <a
            href="OUTDATED.html">cm3-src-std-5.1.4.tgz</a>,
          and as a binary installation archive for FreeBSD3. I haven't
          yet been able to build more distribution archives, but hope
          to get round to it next week. This should be no big problem,
          since everybody can easily use the update archive to upgrade
          his/her system.
        </p>
      </dd>
      <dt class="datebg">2001-04-11</dt>
      <dd>
        <p>
          Put up another binary installation archive for WIN32,
          cm3-min-WIN32-NT386-5.1.3a.tgz, for download. The libraries
          and programs in this archive are built with a recent version
          of the Microsoft C tools.
        </p>
      </dd>
      <dt class="datebg">2001-04-08</dt>
      <dd>
        <p>
          A simple build script for NT/Win2000 cmd shells has been
          added to the latest scripts archive. Some obsolete passages
          from the web pages have been removed, and some final
          adjustments before the official release have been made.
        </p>
        <p>
        </p>
      </dd>

      <dt class="datebg">2001-04-06</dt>
      <dd>
        <p>
          The first archives of the official CM3 5.1.3 release
          have been created. CM3 5.1.3 contains a work-around for the
          DLL creation / linker problem on NT386 (which actually seems
          to be a C compiler problem), a last-minute fix for dynamic
          linked executable on LINUXLIBC6, an almost completely fixed
          HTML documentation tree, and several minor fixes. The binary
          installation still supports only four platforms: NT386
          Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000 on x86), LINUXLIBC6 (Linux with
          glibc 2.1 on x86), FreeBSD3 (FreeBSD 3.X (4.X, 5.X?)) on
          x86, and Solaris (SunOS 5.6, 5.7, 5.8) on SPARC. On all
          these platforms dynamic linking and incremental and
          generational garbage collection is implemented.
        </p>
        <p>
          Once all archives are created and uploaded, some old stuff
          will be removed, cm3-unofficial will be renamed cm3, and an
          announcement will be posted to the m3 newsgroup.
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      <dt class="datebg">2001-03-11</dt>
      <dd>
        <p>
          A chapter about
          <a href="about-cm3.html#if-changes">CM3 5.1 Interface Changes
            and Performance</a> has been added, as well as some
            updates to the TODO lists.
        </p>
        <p>
          A new source update archive
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          has also been created which contains the following latest
          changes:
          updates and fixes for packages cm3 (minimal profiling support
          for some POSIX systems), cminstall (win32 improvements), libm3
          (changed ProcessWin32 module), m3core (FreeBSD4 dtoa fix),
          scripts, and CMASS copyright texts.
        </p>
        <p>
          The scripts archive has been updated, too.
        </p>
      </dd>

      <dt class="datebg">2001-03-06</dt>
      <dd>
        <p>
          Added a new installer for WIN32 which replaces filenames
          with spaces by their 8.3 equivalent.
        </p>
      </dd>

      <dt class="datebg">2001-03-01 (20 hours later)</dt>
      <dd>
        <p>
          Several source and binary distributions have been upgraded
          to patch level 1 (cm3 5.1.1). This patch level includes all
          the fixes and extensions prior to 2001-03-01 (described
          below) plus the following recent changes:
        </p>
        <ul>
          <li>
            fixes for packages <tt>postgres95</tt> and
            <tt>smalldb</tt> (conditional compilation and win32
            extensions)
          </li>
          <li>
            cm3 now defines the quake variables <tt>CM3_VERSION</tt>,
            <tt>CM3_CREATED</tt>, and <tt>EOL</tt>. Based on these
            values, conditional compilation in m3makefiles should be
            easy.
          </li>
          <li>
            The installer now looks for several other archives to
            unpack and installs them if found, including docs, fixes,
            and misc. On win32, the missing <tt>cygwin.dll</tt> for
            <tt>tar.exe</tt> has been added.
          </li>
          <li>
            cm3 has a new option <tt>-depend</tt>, which writes a
            makefile dependency line containing the package
            dependencies.
          </li>
          <li>
            As usual, several scripts have been fixed ;-) and some new
            ones provided.
          </li>
        </ul>
        <p>
          The TODO and package status lists have been updated. Some
          platform notes have been added on the installation page.
        </p>
        <p></p>
      </dd>

      <dt class="datebg">2001-03-01</dt>
      <dd>
        <p>
          A problem report page has been added. Problem reports will be
          sent to the GNATS database at elego Software Solutions GmbH.
        </p>
        <p></p>
      </dd>

      <dt class="datebg">2001-02-24</dt>
      <dd>
        <p>
          The most important news is that now <b>documentation</b> is
          available for CM3 5.1. Much is still missing and not
          everything is up-to-date, but there is a complete set of
          documents for all standard packages and interfaces; the nice
          interfaces overview page from Critical Mass' Reactor
          distribution has been updated.
        </p>
        <p>
          The <tt>m3tohtml</tt> program (which was broken due to several
          interface changes in the standard libraries) has been
          fixed. I have also added a user-friendlier frontend, some
          documentation (try `-h'), and made it more robust. It
          has been used to generate all the current package
          documentation in HTML, and you should also be able to use it
          for your own purposes without much effort.
        </p>
        <ul>
          <li>
            Get the documentation archive from
            <a href="OUTDATED.html">cm3-doc-5.1.0.tgz</a>.
          </li>
          <li>
            The source fixes for m3tohtml and the db and odbc
            libraries are in <a href="OUTDATED.html">src-update-2001-02-24.tgz</a>.
          </li>
          <li>
            A new scripts archive is in <a href="OUTDATED.html">
              cm3-scripts-2001-02-21.tgz</a>.
          </li>
        </ul>
        <p></p>
      </dd>

      <dt class="datebg">2001-02-21</dt>
      <dd>
        <ul>
          <li>
            Some porting notes have finally been added. See
            <a href="porting.html">Porting CM3</a>.
          </li>
          <li>
            The LINUXLIBC6 extensions are missing in the current
            source archives. Get <a href="src-update-2001-02-21.tgz"
              type="application/octet-stream">src-update-2001-02-21.tgz</a>
            from the download page.
          </li>
          <li>
            <a href="OUTDATED.html">cm3-scripts-2001-02-21.tgz</a>
            contains a current version of all the scripts. A new
            scripts archive will be published from time to time.
          </li>
        </ul>
        <p></p>
      </dd>

      <dt class="datebg">2001-02-19</dt>
      <dd>
        Several items have been added today:
        <ul>
          <li>
            The first source update containing fixes for all the
            m3override files in <a href="m3override-update.tgz"
              type="application/octet-stream">m3override-update.tgz</a>.
          </li>
          <li>
            A table with information about the <a
            href="package-status.html">status of all
            packages</a>. This is of course still very incomplete.
          </li>
          <li>
            Instructions how to use <a href="cm3-and-elego.html">CM3
              5.1 together with Elego ComPact</a> have been added.
          </li>
          <li>
            A snapshot of the CVS repository can be accessed via the
            <a href="download.html">Download Page</a>.
          </li>
          <li>
            Added src-update-2001-02-19.tgz. See
            <a href="download.html">Download Page</a>.
          </li>
        </ul>
        <p></p>
      </dd>
      <dt class="datebg">2001-02-18</dt>
      <dd>
        A binary boot archive for the SOLgnu target (SunOS on SPARC)
        is now available. See the <a href="download.html">Download
        Page</a>.
        <p></p>
      </dd>
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