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@@ -11,8 +11,29 @@ Developers: Please commit along with changes.
 For a complete change history, see the SVN log.
 
 
-0.6.1 SVN
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+Mapnik 0.6.1 Release
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+(Packaged from r___)
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+- Plugins: Formal inclusion of new plugin for Kismet server (r1127) (#293)
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+- Python: Made access to features and featuresets more Pythonic (r1121) (#171,#280,#283)
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+- XML: Ensured relative paths in XML are interpreted relative to XML file location (r1124) (#326)
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+- XML: Added ability to serialize all default symbolizer values by passing third argument to save_map(m,'file.xml',True)(r1117) (#327)
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+- Core: Added support for alpha transparency when writing to png256 (patch from Marcin Rudowski) (#202)
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+- SCons: Ensured ABI compatibility information is embedded in libmapnik.dylib on Mac OS X (#322)
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+- SCons: Ensured that the full 'install_name' path would be added to libmapnik.dylib on Mac OS X (#374)
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+- Tests: Added testing framework in Python using nose (r1101-r1105)
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+- Raster Plugin: Added a tile/bbox-based read policy for large (rasters width * height > 1024*1024 will be loaded in chunks) (r1089)
 
 - Python: Exposed dash_array get method (r1151) (#317)
 
@@ -29,6 +50,8 @@ For a complete change history, see the SVN log.
 Mapnik 0.6.0 Release
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+(Packaged from r1066)
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 - Python: Added support for aspect_fix_mode (r1013)
 
 - Fixed axis-ordering for WMS 1.3.0 request (r1051) (#241)