[Jython-checkins] CVS: jython NEWS,2.25,2.26

[Finn B. <bc...@us...>]

Update of /cvsroot/jython/jython
In directory usw-pr-cvs1:/tmp/cvs-serv8053

Modified Files:
	NEWS 
Log Message:
Some news.



Index: NEWS
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RCS file: /cvsroot/jython/jython/NEWS,v
retrieving revision 2.25
retrieving revision 2.26
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*** NEWS	2001/01/17 16:54:44	2.25
--- NEWS	2001/02/01 14:21:16	2.26
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*** 1,4 ****
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  Jython NEWS
  
+ xx-xxx-2001 Jython 2.1 alpha 1
+ 
+   New features.
+    - Improve speed when indexing a string and iterating over a string
+      in a for loop.
+    - Reworked coercing model (pep-0208)
+    - Added {}.popitem().
+    - Improved speed for python files by buffering the RandomAccessFile.
+    - Added function attributes (pep-0232)
+    - Rich comparison (pep-0207)
+    - Updated cPickle to handle CPython compatible unicode strings.
+    - Updated sre to CPython-2.1a1
+    - Added the "new" module
+ 
+   Bug fixes.
+    - Allow self referencing adapters to be collected when using weak
+      tables.
+    - Added workaround for a reader bug in MRJ22Jitc.01.
+ 
  17-Jan-2001 Jython 2.0 final release