[See "Notes About Releases" in "standards" in the main document directory]

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ShagBoot:


shagboot 0.81 through 0.83  (August 1996 through October 1996)
	- Testing different version control standards

shagboot 0.8  (July 1996)
	- Support new 'chunk' format

shagboot 0.7  (April 1996)
	- ???

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SOLO:


solo 0.96.2 (December 20, 1996: 12:02:45)
	- Fixed: keyboard locks up after resets
	- floppy motor turned off before running executable
	- disk functions are retried 3 times before failing

solo 0.96.1 (December 14, 1996: 18:16:03)
	- made /dev/vmem functional
	- added 'bp' command for breakpoints
	- added '^' device prefix to quickly access /dev/vmem

solo 0.96.0 (November 08, 1996: 17:11:00)
	- Ready for first public release

solo 0.95.5 (November 01, 1996: 12:30:29)
	- Trap NULL pointers by unmapping lowest 4K or more
	- Create libsolo for linking external utils/commands to
	- Trap NMI's, IRQ's, traps/exceptions
	- Boot from original bootsector
	- lots of documenting for first public release

solo 0.95.4 (October 06, 1996: 12:25:11)
	- Make partitions use logical instead of CHS

solo 0.95.3 (October 06, 1996: 09:29:13)
	- fixed: short dumps give wrong character data

solo 0.95.2 (October 05, 1996: 11:56:04)
	- Fixed copy/cat/dump to not load entire file first
	- fixed: Copying from /dev/console fails
	- fixed: 'd @xxxx' gives wrong address
	- fixed: 'reboot cold' locks up
	- fixed: Can't run more than one pmode prog
	- fixed: Copying to memory fails
	- no carriage return printed after entering password
	- fixed: unexpected key during paging locks up       

solo 0.95 (September 13, 1996)
	- Handles multiple open files (up to 16)
	- Disk errors added to help
	- Logical and extended partitions supported
	- Linear mappings for disk devices
	- Devices can be directly specified with *ddffuu
	- Merging with previous bootsector 
	- 'Flags' command
	- diskwrite flag (for write protection)
	- Fixed: write errors, /dev/null errors
	- Fixed: help reporting unknown commands
	- Fixed: errors for opening files/devices

solo 0.94 (August 10, 1996)
	- Standardized version info

solo 0.93 (August 8, 1996)
	- Added disk block devices

solo 0.92 (August 6, 1996)
	- improved device I/O support

solo 0.91 (July, 1996)
	- various device-independent I/O improvements

solo 0.90 (June 15, 1996)
	- Trap/IRQ/NMI support added

solo 0.81 (May 20, 1996)
	- Fixed various device bugs

solo 0.80 (May 10, 1996)
	- Full generic device support

solo 0.72 (May 2, 1996)
	- Improved memory mapping

solo 0.71 (April 29, 1996)
	- Fixed bugs in readfile

solo 0.70 (April 22, 1996)
	- Support for loading ELF binaries

solo 0.01 - 0.69 
	- these go back all the way to December, 1994, back to the
		dark ages, before the days of version control   :)

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LibSolo:

libsolo 0.96.2 (December 20, 1996: 12:56:56)
	- broke functions into separate files,
	so you don't link in what you don't use
	- separate stdio.h and malloc.h
	- added solo_MapBootParam and solo_UnmapBootParam
	- added solo_WriteMsg for message buffer
	- added BootParamPtr class for automatic mapping
	
libsolo 0.96.1
	- first public release

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MkSolo:

mksolo 0.24.1 (November 04, 1996: 05:53:01)
	- fixed: tags non-boot sectors with BOOTMERGE_MAGIC

mksolo 0.24.0 (November 01, 1996: 10:01:36)
	- working bootsector save/restore 
	- bootsector location is stored in saved bootsector

mksolo 0.20 (August 1996)
	- Standardized version info 

v???? (July 1996)
	- Added new chunk support

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SoloTest:

solotest 0.96.0 (December 19, 1996: 20:14:59)
	- more detail about message buffer

solotest 0.95.3 (October 06, 1996: 08:26:59)
	- added memory allocation testing

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fdisk:

fdisk 0.2.0 (October 06, 1996: 16:18:35)
	- prints extended partition information as it follows the chain

fdisk 0.1.3 (October 06, 1996: 16:07:44)
	- fixed warnings to take 1024 cylinder problem into account


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