It's been 10 months since the last release and we currently have a good cohesive set of changes.
Since this release has a lot of performance related improvements, I'd like to also include a performance improvement to the md5sum and sha*sum utilities that I've started looking at and hope to complete in the next couple of days. Are there other bug/performance changes that anyone would like to see included in the next release? I realise there are some outstanding patches containing new functionality, and I hope to merge those in a subsequent release that would have a shorter cycle than this one. thanks, Pádraig.
