Announcing E 0.8.7, The Interim Release

[Mark S. Miller]

In light of recent changes in the U.S. legal climate, both the last E 0.8.4 
release and the new interim E 0.8.7 release are now available from the 
US-domestic download pages of http://www.erights.org .  I will be putting a 
mirror of this porting of the site back at cypherpunks.to.

Why is E 0.8.7 interim?  Two reasons.

1) Although it has a new installer that's a great improvement for Windows
(thanks in part to Mark Shepard!), at the moment the price is that we no 
longer build or install under Unix/Linux.  We expect this to be fixed 
shortly, and the resulting release will be 0.8.8.

2) Marc Stiegler has identified a new terrible performance bug in the 
proxy-comm system.  Until this is fixed, this E is unusable for some 
distributed applications.  This will be fixed in 0.8.9, at which time we 
will stop distributing or supporting 0.8.4.

If either of these problems is a show stopper for you, continue using E 
0.8.4 for now.  However, read http://www.erights.org/download/which.html first.

There have been many changes since 0.8.4.  Release notes to follow.  Good 
night.


         Cheers,
         --MarkM