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 PISI 1.0.1 24 December 2005:
- * bugfix release
+
+ * bugfix release. one important improvement is preventing the accumulation
+   of inactive database logs (we handle catastrophic failure in
+   another way, by making all critical data available as xml)
 
 PISI 1.0 21 December 2005:
+
  * new command "check"
  * a new tool "calc-build-order.py" to calculate build order 
    for the entire distro