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-What's new in ZODB 3.9.0
-========================
 
-General
--------
+Change History
+**************
 
-- (3.9.0a1) Document conflict resolution (see ZODB/ConflictResolution.txt).
+3.9.0a1 (2008-??-??)
+====================
 
-- (3.9.0a1) Bugfix the situation in which comparing persistent objects (for
-  instance, as members in BTree set or keys of BTree) might cause data
-  inconsistency during conflict resolution.
+New Features
+------------
+
+- Versions are no-longer supported.
+
+- ZEO cache files can be larger than 4G. Note that lder ZEO cache
+  files are not supported.
+
+- Document conflict resolution (see ZODB/ConflictResolution.txt).
 
-- (3.9.0a1) Support multidatabase references in conflict resolution.
+- Support multidatabase references in conflict resolution.
 
-- (3.9.0a1) Make it possible to examine oid and (in some situations) database
+- Make it possible to examine oid and (in some situations) database
   name of persistent object references during conflict resolution.
 
-- (3.9.0a1) Moved 'transaction' module out of ZODB.
+- Moved 'transaction' module out of ZODB.
   ZODB depends upon this module, but it must be installed separately.
 
-- (3.9.0a1) ZODB installation now requires setuptools.
+- ZODB installation now requires setuptools.
 
-- (3.9.0a1) Added `offset` information to output of `fstail`
+- Added `offset` information to output of `fstail`
   script. Added test harness for this script.
 
-- (3.9.0a1) Fixed bug 153316: persistent and BTrees were using `int`
-  for memory sizes which caused errors on x86_64 Intel Xeon machines
-  (using 64-bit Linux).
-
-- (3.9.0a1) Removed version support from connections and DB.  Versions
-  are still in the storages; this is an incremental step.
-
-- (3.9.0a1) Added support for read-only, historical connections based
+- Added support for read-only, historical connections based
   on datetimes or serials (TIDs).  See
   src/ZODB/historical_connections.txt.
 
-- (3.9.0a1) Fixed small bug that the Connection.isReadOnly method didn't
-  work after a savepoint.
+Bugs Fixed
+----------
+
+- Bugfix the situation in which comparing persistent objects (for
+  instance, as members in BTree set or keys of BTree) might cause data
+  inconsistency during conflict resolution.
+
+- Fixed bug 153316: persistent and BTrees were using `int`
+  for memory sizes which caused errors on x86_64 Intel Xeon machines
+  (using 64-bit Linux).
   
-ZEO
----
+- Fixed small bug that the Connection.isReadOnly method didn't
+  work after a savepoint.
 
-- (3.9.0a1) Bug #98275: Made ZEO cache more tolerant when invalidating current
+- Bug #98275: Made ZEO cache more tolerant when invalidating current
   versions of objects.
 
-- (3.9.0a1) Fixed a serious bug that could cause client I/O to stop
+- Fixed a serious bug that could cause client I/O to stop
   (hang). This was accomonied by a critical log message along the
   lines of: "RuntimeError: dictionary changed size during iteration".
 
-Transactions
-------------
-
-- (3.9.0a1) 'transaction' module is not included in ZODB anymore.  It
-  is now just a ZODB dependency (via setuptools declarations).
-
-Blobs
------
+- Fixed bug #127182: Blobs were subclassable which was not desired.
 
-- (3.9.0a1) Fixed bug #127182: Blobs were subclassable which was not desired.
-
-- (3.9.0a1) Fixed bug #126007: tpc_abort had untested code path that was
+- Fixed bug #126007: tpc_abort had untested code path that was
   broken.
 
-- (3.9.0a1) Fixed bug #129921: getSize() function in BlobStorage could not
+- Fixed bug #129921: getSize() function in BlobStorage could not
   deal with garbage files
 
-- (3.9.0a1) Fixed bug in which MVCC would not work for blobs.
-
-BTrees
-------
-
-- 
+- Fixed bug in which MVCC would not work for blobs.