Re: 3.6.1 release

[John W. Eaton]

On 24-Feb-2012, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:

| On 22 February 2012 14:28, John W. Eaton <address@hidden> wrote:
| > On 18-Feb-2012, Rik wrote:
| >
| > | Are we okay to release 3.6.1?
| 
| > Sorry for the delay.
| 
| So are we gonna have a release party or what? I'm still saving the
| champagne from the 3.6.0 party we missed.

Does the following look OK as a release announcement?

  To: octave help mailing list <address@hidden>, address@hidden
  Subject: GNU Octave 3.6.1 Released
  From: "John W. Eaton" <address@hidden>

  The Octave developers are pleased to announce the release of GNU
  Octave 3.6.1.  This version is a major new release.

  The source code for Octave 3.6.1 is available for download at:

    http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/octave
    ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/octave

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  listed at http://octave.org/download.html as they become
  available.

  Please see http://octave.org/NEWS-3.6.html for a list of significant
  user-visible changes in this release.

  To help improve future versions, please report problems using the
  Octave bug tracker at http://bugs.octave.org.

  As always, many people contributed to this Octave release.  A complete
  list of contributors may be found in the Octave manual.

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  solution of linear and nonlinear problems, and for performing
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jwe