updates for 3.0.0 alpha

2 files changed, 30 insertions, 27 deletions

diff --git a/src/Announce.txt b/src/Announce.txt
index a7b172d..122de68 100644
--- a/src/Announce.txt
+++ b/src/Announce.txt
@@ -18,14 +18,40 @@ So that everyone using SCons can help each other learn how to use it more
 effectively, please go to http://scons.org/lists.html#users to sign up for
 the scons-users mailing list.
 
-RELEASE VERSION/DATE TO BE FILLED IN LATER
+RELEASE 3.0.0 Alpha
 
   Please consult the RELEASE.txt file for a summary of changes since the last
   release and consult the CHANGES.txt file for complete a list of changes
   since last release.  This announcement highlights only the important
   changes.
+    Please note the following important changes since release 2.5.1:
+       *IT IS NOT READY FOR PRODUCTION USE YET.*
 
-    -  Please note the following important changes since release 2.4.1:
+       This is the initial release supporting both python 3.5+ and 2.7.x and pypy
+       There are some important changes:
+
+       - Any print statements must now use python 3 syntax of "print()"
+       - All node content should be in bytes. This is the default in python 2.7.x,
+         in Python 3 all strings are by default unicode. byte and/or bytearray
+         should be used if you construct content for return by a custom node type's
+         get_content() method.
+       - This is some (as yet unresolved issue) using Literal()'s in some context with
+         Python 3
+       - pypy should be supported, please report any issues to the user's mailing list.
+       - Currently if you switch back and forth between python 2.7.x and 3.5+ you will
+         need to remove your sconsign file.  This should be resolves shortly, but
+         regardless switching between python 2.7.x and 3.5+ will not use compatible
+         sconsigns and as such incremental builds should be expected to rebuild
+         anything changed since the previous scons run with the same version of python.
+
+       - Removed deprecated tools CVS, Perforce, BitKeeper, RCS, SCCS, Subversion.
+       - Removed deprecated module SCons.Sig
+       - See CHANGES.txt for more details on other changes
+
+
+
+
+    Please note the following important changes since release 2.4.1:
        We're enhancing implicit language scanning functionality to improve
        correctness.  SCons now honors scanner keys for implicit dependencies
        and correctly changes scanner type (if necessary) when traversing 
diff --git a/src/RELEASE.txt b/src/RELEASE.txt
index 07eaaf4..f87f889 100644
--- a/src/RELEASE.txt
+++ b/src/RELEASE.txt
@@ -3,35 +3,12 @@
 
           http://www.scons.org/download.php
 
-  XXX The primary purpose of this release ... XXX
 
-  A SCons "checkpoint release" is intended to provide early access to
-  new features so they can be tested in the field before being released
-  for adoption by other software distributions.
-
-  Note that a checkpoint release is developed using the same test-driven
-  development methodology as all SCons releases.  Existing SCons
-  functionality should all work as it does in previous releases (except
-  for any changes identified in the release notes) and early adopters
-  should be able to use a checkpoint release safely for production work
-  with existing SConscript files.  If not, it represents not only a bug
-  in SCons but also a hole in the regression test suite, and we want to
-  hear about it.
-
-  New features may be more lightly tested than in past releases,
-  especially as concerns their interaction with all of the other
-  functionality in SCons.  We are especially interested in hearing bug
-  reports about new functionality.
-
-  We do not recommend that downstream distributions (Debian, Fedora,
-  etc.) package a checkpoint release, mainly to avoid confusing the
-  "public" release numbering with the long checkpoint release names.
-
-  Here is a summary of the changes since 1.3.0:
+  Here is a summary of the changes since 2.5.1:
 
   NEW FUNCTIONALITY
 
-    - List new features (presumably why a checkpoint is being released)
+    - Initial support for Python 3.0
 
   DEPRECATED FUNCTIONALITY