Re: preparations for release 0.9

David Crossley wrote:
> Approximately 24 hours to go before i start to build the release candidate.

Woops, one extra day :-)

[2] create initial release candidate, start testing                                                                          
Revised: Monday 2011-01-31 at 22:00 UTC                                                                                      
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> So get your last minutes changes contributed please.
> 
> I have attended to lots of stuff, see svn@
> Bumped others to the next version.
> 
> Please see the important "Upgrading to 0.9" document [1]
> and see if you can add or better explain anything.
> 
> See the "FOR-roadmap-dev" filter [2]:
> 
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> FOR-1077 new CreationDate causes constant differences in output pdf documents
> 
> I don't think that we can deal with this at this late stage.
> A note has been added to the "Upgrading to 0.9" document [1]
> 
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> FOR-1208 NPE exception when generating PDF that includes SVG to PNG image conversion
> 
> This would be good to fix. Would someone try please.
> 
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> FOR-915 changes with PNGs generated on different platforms
> 
> I have done lots of investigation.
> Would someone better at SVG try please.
> 
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> [1] http://forrest.apache.org/upgrading_09.html
> [2] http://forrest.apache.org/issues.html#filters
> [3] http://forrest.apache.org/procedures/release/How_to_release.html