<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Geneva">Hi,</FONT><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Geneva"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Geneva">After spending a year as an "alpha" release, I think Tioga is ready for a wider audience, and moving it to "beta" status is one way to help that happen. There will certainly be lots more changes (and perhaps even a bug fix or two), but I think it no longer needs the "use at your own risk" label. </FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Geneva"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Geneva">This release is also the first to be done using RubyForge. Instead of downloading the tar file from my website, please get it from there: <FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">//rubyforge.org/projects/tioga/</FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>For now, the Mac GUI is still on my website (but it will also move to RubyForge soon): <A href="http://theory.kitp.ucsb.edu/~paxton/Tioga-1.1.1.dmg">http://theory.kitp.ucsb.edu/~paxton/Tioga-1.1.1.dmg</A></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>The main technical change in Tioga for this release is Vincent Fourmond's split of the Dvector-Dtable packages off from FigureMaker so that they live in a separate Dobject class that can be used independently. </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Cheers,</DIV><DIV>Bill</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV></BODY></HTML>