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+Steps for a beta release:
+  - docs:
+     * update all docs with asciidoc in doc/
+  - code:
+     * tcl 8.5: 
+       * configure with --enable-development
+         make test
+       * configure with --enable-memcount=yes
+         make test 2>&1|cat |fgrep Overall
+       * configure with --enable-development and activate valgrind in Makefile
+         make test 2>&1|cat |fgrep "definitely lost"
+         (8.5 ok, whenevery test returns "40 bytes in 2 blocks")
+       * get rid of non-ansi-c
+         make "CFLAGS_DEFAULT=-ansi -pedantic"
+         (warnings are ok, errors not)
+       * complile with clang
+         make "CC=clang"
+         make "CC=clang" test
+       * run static analysis:
+         cppcheck --enable=all generic/*.c
+       * configure without --enable-development
+         make install
+         make install-aol
+         test with naviserver/aolserver (xowiki/xowf)
+     * tcl 8.6b2: 
+       * configure with --enable-development
+         make test
+       * configure with --enable-memcount=yes
+         make test 2>&1|cat |fgrep Overall  
+       * configure with --enable-development and activate valgrind in Makefile
+         make test 2>&1|cat |fgrep "definitely lost"
+         (8.6b2 ok, whenevery test returns "40 bytes in 2 blocks")
+
+   - Announcement
+      * Summarize changes since the last release in doc/Announce-VERSION
+        As source use e.g.
+            git log --date-order --date=short|less
+      * Run spell checker over announcement
+      * git add announcement 
+
+   - build tar
+       * make tar
+       * check content of tar file
+         tar ztvf ../nsf2.0b3.tar.gz |sort -rn -k 5,6|less
+
+   - tag version in git  
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+Dear Community,
+
+We are please to announce the availability of NSF 2.0b3 which can be obtained
+from http://next-scripting.org
+
+Best regards
+- Gustaf Neumann
+- Stefan Sobernig
+
+
+Announcing NSF 2.0b3
+*************************
+
+Major changes relative to NSF 2.0b2 are:
+
+   * Additional Features:
+     - object parameters: 
+       call method "assign" on slot objects, when it is provided
+
+     - include "-returns" in introspection for aliases and 
+       scripted methods. New subcommand "info method returns" for nx.
+
+     - better compatibility with XOTcl 1.*:
+
+       * invocation of objects via method interface follows per
+         default the XOTcl 1.* conventions. In order to obtain the
+         semantics of ensemble objects, the object properties
+         "keepcallerself" and "perobjectdispatch" have to be used.
+
+       * better handling of XOTcl 1.* configure commands (starting 
+         with a "-") when list property is lost (Many thanks to 
+         Zoran Vasjljevic for the good example)
+
+       * use different version numbers in serializer to avoid
+         mixups of XOTcl 1 and XOTcl 2
+
+   * Improved Code Quality:
+     - improved performance
+       * rewrite of alias handling (alias reform)
+       * improved branch prediction
+       * significant speedup for handling large numbers
+         of subclasses (subclass reform), avoid
+         repetitious computations
+       * significant speedup on mass-destroy (e.g. on thread exit)
+     - provide better protection for deletion/overwriting
+       of base classes
+     - fixed potential duplicates on diamond inheritance
+     - fixed unknown handling for "-local" and "-system" 
+       dispatches
+     - improved compatibility for windows compilations 
+       (c89, __WIN32__)
+     - fixed potential crashes
+         * during method caching
+         * error message
+         * implicit deletions
+     - follow Tcl convention on error messages 
+       (start always with lower case)
+     - better handling of multiple errors in a single command.
+     - return GMT dates in Httpd as RFCs require
+
+   * Improved documentation
+     - fixed typos, improve wordings
+
+   * Extended regression tests
+
+MORE INFO 
+  General and more detailed information about the Next scripting
+  framework and its components can be found at
+  http://next-scripting.org
+
+
+