Updated docs and release tools

IPython/Release.py

@@ -23,9 +23,9 b" name = 'ipython'"
 # bdist_deb does not accept underscores (a Debian convention).
 
 development = False    # change this to False to do a release
-version_base = '0.9.beta'
+version_base = '0.9.beta2'
 branch = 'ipython'
-revision = '1099'
+revision = '1103'
 
 if development:
     if branch == 'ipython':

docs/source/changes.txt

@@ -5,6 +5,21 b" What's new"
 ==========
 
 .. contents::
+..
+    1  Release 0.9
+      1.1  New features
+      1.2  Bug fixes
+      1.3  Backwards incompatible changes
+      1.4  Changes merged in from IPython1
+        1.4.1  New features
+        1.4.2  Bug fixes
+        1.4.3  Backwards incompatible changes
+    2  Release 0.8.4
+    3  Release 0.8.2
+    4  Release 0.8.3
+    5  Older releases
+..
+
 
 Release 0.9
 ===========
@@ -12,6 +27,34 b' Release 0.9'
 New features
 ------------
 
+* The Editor synchronization work by Vivian De Smedt has been merged in.  This
+  code adds a number of new editor hooks to synchronize with editors under
+  Windows.
+
+* A new, still experimental but highly functional, WX shell by Gael Varoquaux.
+  This work was sponsored by Enthought, and while it's still very new, it is
+  based on a more cleanly organized arhictecture of the various IPython
+  components.  We will continue to develop this over the next few releases as a
+  model for GUI components that use IPython.
+
+* Another GUI frontend, Cocoa based (Cocoa is the OSX native GUI framework),
+  authored by Barry Wark.  Currently the WX and the Cocoa ones have slightly
+  different internal organizations, but the whole team is working on finding
+  what the right abstraction points are for a unified codebase.
+
+* As part of the frontend work, Barry Wark also implemented an experimental
+  event notification system that various ipython components can use.  In the
+  next release the implications and use patterns of this system regarding the
+  various GUI options will be worked out.
+
+* IPython finally has a full test system, that can test docstrings with
+  IPython-specific functionality.  There are still a few pieces missing for it
+  to be widely accessible to all users (so they can run the test suite at any
+  time and report problems), but it now works for the developers.  We are
+  working hard on continuing to improve it, as this was probably IPython's
+  major Achilles heel (the lack of proper test coverage made it effectively
+  impossible to do large-scale refactoring).
+
 	* The notion of a task has been completely reworked.  An `ITask` interface has
 	  been created.  This interface defines the methods that tasks need to implement.
 	  These methods are now responsible for things like submitting tasks and processing
@@ -73,6 +116,10 b' Bug fixes'
 Backwards incompatible changes
 ------------------------------
 
+* In ipapi, the :func:`make_user_ns` function has been replaced with
+  :func:`make_user_namespaces`, to support dict subclasses in namespace
+  creation.
+
 	* :class:`IPython.kernel.client.Task` has been renamed
 	  :class:`IPython.kernel.client.StringTask` to make way for new task types.
 	* The keyword argument `style` has been renamed `dist` in `scatter`, `gather`

docs/source/conf.py

@@ -2,6 +2,11 b''
 #
 # IPython documentation build configuration file, created by
 # sphinx-quickstart on Thu May  8 16:45:02 2008.
+
+# NOTE: This file has been edited manually from the auto-generated one from
+# sphinx.  Do NOT delete and re-generate.  If any changes from sphinx are
+# needed, generate a scratch one and merge by hand any new fields needed.
+
 #
 # This file is execfile()d with the current directory set to its containing dir.
 #
@@ -18,6 +23,10 b' import sys, os'
 # absolute, like shown here.
 #sys.path.append(os.path.abspath('some/directory'))
 
+# We load the ipython release info into a dict by explicit execution
+iprelease = {}
+execfile('../../IPython/Release.py',iprelease)
+
 # General configuration
 # ---------------------
 
@@ -41,10 +50,11 b" copyright = '2008, The IPython Development Team'"
 # The default replacements for |version| and |release|, also used in various
 # other places throughout the built documents.
 #
-# The short X.Y version.
-version = '0.9'
 # The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags.
-release = '0.9.beta1'
+release = iprelease['version']
+# The short X.Y version.
+version = '.'.join(release.split('.',2)[:2])
+
 
 # There are two options for replacing |today|: either, you set today to some
 # non-false value, then it is used:
@@ -164,3 +174,7 b" latex_documents = [ ('index', 'IPython.tex', 'IPython Documentation',"
 
 # If false, no module index is generated.
 #latex_use_modindex = True
+
+
+# Cleanup: delete release info to avoid pickling errors from sphinx
+del iprelease