1.99 Release freeze

["Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko" <phcoder@gmail.com>]

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Hello. A I announced before the release freeze happens at the end of
20th September. Now it's 21st September 0:26 UTC and so I officially
announce main trunk as frozen.  Only bugfixes and documentation updates
are to be done from now on to the trunk. Also patches that were approved
before freeze are still allowed in. According to my notes they are:
- "[PATCH] Handle partition devices without corresponding disk devices"
09/10/2010 06:33 PM +0100
- "[PATCH] USB serial - missing configuration" 09/15/2010 07:58 AM +0200

Also some of the improvements have a big importance/effort ratio so as
of exception they are allowed to go in:
- Detecting LVM/RAID without device.map.
- Compressing core on yeeloong
- Implementing new part of multiboot2 specification.
- Networking by Manoelo Rebelo Abranches.
- Writing embedding zone using Reed-Solomon.
- Using cache on yeeloong for videocard.
- Changing video IDs in linux loader.
- Reenabling extras

I know this list is longer than it should be but unfortunately I
couldn't finish/review them in time.

Further exceptions can be granted on case-by-case basis. And of course
the developpement in experimental can continue but I recommend everyone
to do testing and bug-hunting.

I changed version to 1.99~beta0 but I don't do any upload because of
these missing parts and known bugs.

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Regards
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko



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