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  r1786 | stevenknight | 2007-01-25 15:29:15 -0600 (Thu, 25 Jan 2007) | 1 line

  0.96.D555 - Doc string updates for TaskMaster to better describe the architecture. Get rid of some no-longer-used code.
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  r1787 | stevenknight | 2007-01-25 23:24:31 -0600 (Thu, 25 Jan 2007) | 1 line

  0.96.D556 - Packaging changes to support building packages in an arbitrary directory.
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  r1788 | stevenknight | 2007-01-30 20:35:39 -0600 (Tue, 30 Jan 2007) | 1 line

  0.96.D557 - Make the Scanner.Base class able to handle Scanner.Selector functionality (i.e., a dictionary to select other scanners) and prepare to deprecate Scanner.Selector and Scanner.Scanner() in the future.
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  r1789 | stevenknight | 2007-01-30 20:45:23 -0600 (Tue, 30 Jan 2007) | 1 line

  0.96.D558 - Add support for a site-scons subdirectory. (Gary Oberbrunner)
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  r1790 | stevenknight | 2007-01-31 00:36:20 -0600 (Wed, 31 Jan 2007) | 1 line

  0.96.D559 - Clean up various module imports and other pychecker-detected problems.
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  r1791 | stevenknight | 2007-01-31 11:51:04 -0600 (Wed, 31 Jan 2007) | 1 line

  0.96.D560 - Fix detection of Java anonymous classes if a newline precedes the opening brace. (Leanid Nazdrynau)
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  r1792 | stevenknight | 2007-02-02 11:57:59 -0600 (Fri, 02 Feb 2007) | 1 line

  0.96.D561 - Add a --bootstrap_src option to bootstrap.py; search the bootstrap.py directory by default. (Greg Noel)
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  r1793 | stevenknight | 2007-02-02 18:04:52 -0600 (Fri, 02 Feb 2007) | 1 line

  0.96.D562 - Don't check the build/*/gentoo directories for copyright strings.
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  r1794 | stevenknight | 2007-02-02 18:12:43 -0600 (Fri, 02 Feb 2007) | 1 line

  0.96.D563 - Fix pychecker clean-ups on later Python versions.
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  r1795 | stevenknight | 2007-02-02 18:38:47 -0600 (Fri, 02 Feb 2007) | 1 line

  0.96.D564 - Add a NoCache() function to allow marking targets as not being suitable for propagating/ to (or retrieving from) CacheDir(). (Dave Vitek)
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  r1796 | stevenknight | 2007-02-02 20:08:33 -0600 (Fri, 02 Feb 2007) | 1 line

  0.96.D565 - Add a --tree= option, to make the interface to dumping dependency graphs a little clearner, and give it a 'prune' option to avoid repeating the dependency walk for Nodes we've already visited.
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  r1797 | stevenknight | 2007-02-03 20:37:25 -0600 (Sat, 03 Feb 2007) | 1 line

  0.96.D566 - Packaging fix: don't add '#' to the beginning of a build_dir name if it's already an absolute path.
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  r1798 | stevenknight | 2007-02-03 20:53:42 -0600 (Sat, 03 Feb 2007) | 1 line

  0.96.D567 - Add backwards-compatibility for set() types, and restore the line that used them in the compatibility _subprocess.py module.
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  r1799 | stevenknight | 2007-02-05 10:30:28 -0600 (Mon, 05 Feb 2007) | 1 line

  0.96.D568 - Capture outline and build configuration for a possible future Developer's Guide.
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  r1800 | stevenknight | 2007-02-05 11:03:37 -0600 (Mon, 05 Feb 2007) | 1 line

  0.96.D569 - Exclude the new developer guide MANIFEST from Copyright string checks.
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  r1801 | stevenknight | 2007-02-05 11:16:04 -0600 (Mon, 05 Feb 2007) | 1 line

  0.96.D570 - Track fix in upstream subprocess.py. (Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve)
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  r1802 | stevenknight | 2007-02-05 20:05:59 -0600 (Mon, 05 Feb 2007) | 1 line

  0.96.D571 - Change the Windows installer to register scons.bat as an 'App Path', so the directory doesn't need to be added to %PATH%.
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  r1803 | stevenknight | 2007-02-05 21:33:01 -0600 (Mon, 05 Feb 2007) | 1 line

  0.96.D572 - Prepare SConf for use with the subprocess module by refactoring the Unbuffered class.
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  r1804 | stevenknight | 2007-02-05 22:37:09 -0600 (Mon, 05 Feb 2007) | 1 line

  0.96.D573 - Get rid of left-over Node.Node.{pre,post}_actions attributes.
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  r1805 | stevenknight | 2007-02-06 12:04:14 -0600 (Tue, 06 Feb 2007) | 1 line

  0.96.D574 - Remove leftover print in the test/CacheDir/NoCache.py test.
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  r1806 | stevenknight | 2007-02-06 17:11:03 -0600 (Tue, 06 Feb 2007) | 1 line

  0.96.D575 - Support the ability to evaluate a ${} construction variable to select the spawner function.
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  r1809 | stevenknight | 2007-02-07 00:30:10 -0600 (Wed, 07 Feb 2007) | 1 line

  0.96.D576 - Documentation fixes and updates.
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  r1810 | stevenknight | 2007-02-07 15:51:20 -0600 (Wed, 07 Feb 2007) | 1 line

  0.96.D577 - Don't expect a bootstrap.py runtest.py file to be generated when swig -noproxy is used.
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  r1811 | stevenknight | 2007-02-07 16:55:06 -0600 (Wed, 07 Feb 2007) | 1 line

  0.96.D578 - Make --srcdir a synonym for -Y/--repository.
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  r1812 | stevenknight | 2007-02-07 23:46:22 -0600 (Wed, 07 Feb 2007) | 1 line

  0.96.D579 - More doc updates: PathAccept, #include+Repository double-quote limitation.
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  r1817 | stevenknight | 2007-02-08 12:46:42 -0600 (Thu, 08 Feb 2007) | 1 line

  0.96.D580 - Fix use of toolpath with BuildDir.
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  r1818 | stevenknight | 2007-02-08 12:59:23 -0600 (Thu, 08 Feb 2007) | 1 line

  0.96.D581 - Enable build of the text version of the User's Guide.
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  r1819 | stevenknight | 2007-02-08 14:21:31 -0600 (Thu, 08 Feb 2007) | 1 line

  0.96.D582 - Fix handling of Java inner classes with JARCHDIR.
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  r1820 | stevenknight | 2007-02-08 14:39:33 -0600 (Thu, 08 Feb 2007) | 1 line

  0.96.D583 - Add linking with -lm to the dmd.py Tool smart linker. (Anonymous)
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  r1821 | stevenknight | 2007-02-08 17:26:29 -0600 (Thu, 08 Feb 2007) | 1 line

  0.96.D584 - Fix ParseConfig() when *FLAGS variables have been replaced with strings.
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  r1822 | stevenknight | 2007-02-09 12:21:17 -0600 (Fri, 09 Feb 2007) | 1 line

  0.96.D585 - Fix installation of file names beginning with #. (Dave Weber)
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  r1823 | stevenknight | 2007-02-09 14:14:47 -0600 (Fri, 09 Feb 2007) | 1 line

  0.96.D586 - Post-review improvements to recent toolpath and MergeFlags() changes. (Gary Oberbrunner, Greg Noel)
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  r1824 | stevenknight | 2007-02-10 00:53:13 -0600 (Sat, 10 Feb 2007) | 1 line

  0.96.D587 - Commonize flags initialization between the c and c++ Tools.
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diff --git a/HOWTO/release.txt b/HOWTO/release.txt
index cff44b9e..64c62afc 100644
--- a/HOWTO/release.txt
+++ b/HOWTO/release.txt
@@ -45,6 +45,12 @@ Things to do to release a new X.Y version of SCons:
 
         Check in any changes necessary to make everything work
 
+    Update the user's guide
+
+        sh bin/docdiff
+
+        sh bin/docupdate
+
     END THE CURRENT DEVELOPMENT BRANCH
 
         ae_p scons.0
diff --git a/HOWTO/subrelease.txt b/HOWTO/subrelease.txt
index fbba52a2..7b9254b1 100644
--- a/HOWTO/subrelease.txt
+++ b/HOWTO/subrelease.txt
@@ -8,6 +8,14 @@ see the document HOWTO/release.txt.
 
 Things to do to release a new X.Y.Z version of SCons:
 
+    BEFORE STARTING THE SUB-BRANCH:
+    
+        Update the user's guide on the parent
+
+            sh bin/docdiff
+
+            sh bin/docupdate
+
     START THE NEW SUB-BRANCH FOR SUBRELEASE
 
         aenbr -p scons.0.{94} {1}