diff etc/NEWS.2 @ 23277:df0fb2cb820b

add release dates to NEWS files * NEWS, etc/NEWS.1, etc/NEWS.2, etc/NEWS.3: Add known release dates to Summary lines. * etc/CHECKLIST: Note that release date info should be added to NEWS file Summary lines. Add item for updating release history wiki page.
author John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
date Wed, 15 Mar 2017 09:13:38 -0400
parents 446c46af4b42
children b6e756d8f485
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--- a/etc/NEWS.2	Tue Mar 14 23:20:02 2017 +0100
+++ b/etc/NEWS.2	Wed Mar 15 09:13:38 2017 -0400
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-Summary of changes for version 2.1.x:
-------------------------------------
+Summary of changes for version 2.1.x (1997-06-05 -- 2006-03-20):
+---------------------------------------------------------------
 
   * Given a matrix, X, and a boolean index, idx, of the same shape as
     X, X(idx) and X(idx) = RHS now work no matter what the value of
@@ -502,13 +502,13 @@
 
   * New configure option, --enable-static.
 
-Summary of changes for version 2.0.7:
-------------------------------------
+Summary of changes for version 2.0.7 (1997-06-04):
+-------------------------------------------------
 
   This is a bug-fixing release.  There are no new user-visible features.
 
-Summary of changes for version 2.0.6:
-------------------------------------
+Summary of changes for version 2.0.6 (1997-05-27):
+-------------------------------------------------
 
   This is primarily a bug-fixing release.  There are only a few new
   user-visible features.
@@ -532,8 +532,8 @@
     cause Octave to hang.  I doubt that the delay is really the right
     solution.  If anyone has a better idea, I'd love to hear it.
 
-Summary of changes for version 2.0.5:
-------------------------------------
+Summary of changes for version 2.0.5 (1997-03-01):
+-------------------------------------------------
 
   * A `switch' statement is now available.  See the Statements chapter
     in the manual for details.
@@ -543,8 +543,8 @@
 
   * More tests.
 
-Summary of changes for version 2.0.4:
-------------------------------------
+Summary of changes for version 2.0.4 (1997-02-20):
+-------------------------------------------------
 
   * It is now possible to use commands like ls, save, and cd as simple
     variable names.  They still cannot be used as formal parameters
@@ -555,8 +555,8 @@
   * Is is now possible to invoke commands like ls, save, and cd as
     normal functions (for example, load ("foo", "x", "y", "z")).
 
-Summary of changes for version 2.0.3:
-------------------------------------
+Summary of changes for version 2.0.3 (1997-02-18):
+-------------------------------------------------
 
   * The manual has been completely revised and now corresponds much
     more closely to the features of the current version.
@@ -583,8 +583,8 @@
   * It is now much easier to make binary distributions.  See the
     Binary Distributions section of the manual for more details.
 
-Summary of changes for version 2.0.2:
-------------------------------------
+Summary of changes for version 2.0.2 (1997-01-27):
+-------------------------------------------------
 
   * Octave now stops executing commands from a script file if an error
     is encountered.
@@ -601,8 +601,8 @@
       sleep   -- pause execution for a specified number of seconds
       usleep  -- pause execution for a specified number of microseconds
 
-Summary of changes for version 2.0:
-----------------------------------
+Summary of changes for version 2.0 (1996-12-10):
+-----------------------------------------------
 
   * The set and show commands for setting and displaying gnuplot
     parameters have been replaced by gset and gshow.  This change will