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+October 6, 2008: m5_2.0_beta6
+--------------------
+New Features
+1. Support for gcc 4.3
+2. Core m5 code in libm5 for integration with other simulators
+3. Preliminary support for X86 SE mode
+4. Additional system calls emulated
+5. m5term updated to work on OS X
+6. Ability to disable listen sockets
+7. Event queue performance improvements and rewrite
+8. Better errors for unconnected memory ports
+
+Bug fixes
+1. ALPHA_SE O3 perlbmk benchmark
+2. Translation bug where O3 could fetch from uncachable memory
+3. Many minor bugs
+
 Outstanding issues for 2.0 release:
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-1. Fix O3 CPU bug in SE 40.perlbmk fails
-2. Fix O3 processing nacks/coherence messages
-3. Better statistics for the caches.
-4. FS mode doesn't work under Cygwin
-5. memtest regression crashes under Cygwin
-6. Make repository public
-7. Testing
-8. Validation
+1. Statistics cleanup
+2. Improve regression system
+3. Testing
+4. Validation
+
+March 1, 2008: m5_2.0_beta5
+--------------------
+New Features
+1. Rick Strong's Simpoints config changes
+2. Support for FSU ARM port
+3. EXTRAS= option allow architectures to be specified
+
+Bug fixes
+1. Bus timing more realistic
+2. Cache writeback, LL/SC fixes
+3. Minor IGbE NIC fixes
+4. O3 op latency fix
+5. SPARC TLB demap fixes
+6. SPARC SE memory layout fixes
+7. Variety of MIPS fixes
 
 Nov 4, 2007: m5_2.0_beta4
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@@ -35,8 +64,8 @@ Possible Incompatibilities:
    To see how to add your sources take a look at one of them.
 3. Python is now used to created the parameter structs that were created
    manually before. The parameters listed in a py file are turned into 
-   a header file with the same name (e.g. BadDevice.py -> BadDevice.h). 
-   With this change the structs can be populate automatically and the 
+   a header file with the same name (e.g. BadDevice.py -> BadDevice.hh). 
+   With this change the structs can be populated automatically and the 
    ugly macros to define and create SimObjects at the bottem of source
    files are gone. The parameter structs also automatically inherit 
    parameters from their parents.