Prep for 3.0.0 alpha release

4 files changed, 27 insertions, 40 deletions

diff --git a/ReleaseConfig b/ReleaseConfig
index 517b5db..331380a 100644
--- a/ReleaseConfig
+++ b/ReleaseConfig
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ __revision__ = "__FILE__ __REVISION__ __DATE__ __DEVELOPER__"
 # 'final', the patchlevel is set to the release date.  This value is
 # mandatory and must be present in this file.
 #version_tuple = (2, 2, 0, 'final', 0)
-version_tuple = (2, 7, 0, 'alpha', 0)
+version_tuple = (3, 0, 0, 'alpha', 0)
 
 # Python versions prior to unsupported_python_version cause a fatal error
 # when that version is used.  Python versions prior to deprecate_python_version
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ deprecated_python_version = (2, 7, 0)
 #month_year = 'December 2012'
 
 # If copyright years is not given, the release year is used as the end.
-copyright_years = '2001 - 2016'
+copyright_years = '2001 - 2017'
 
 # Local Variables:
 # tab-width:4
diff --git a/src/Announce.txt b/src/Announce.txt
index 122de68..488615a 100644
--- a/src/Announce.txt
+++ b/src/Announce.txt
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ RELEASE 3.0.0 Alpha
   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.*
+       *IT IS NOT READY FOR PRODUCTION USE*
 
        This is the initial release supporting both python 3.5+ and 2.7.x and pypy
        There are some important changes:
@@ -43,12 +43,16 @@ RELEASE 3.0.0 Alpha
          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.
+       - It is likely that migrating from 2.5.1 -> 3.0.0 alpha will cause rebuilds due
+         to the significant number of changes in the codebase.
 
        - Removed deprecated tools CVS, Perforce, BitKeeper, RCS, SCCS, Subversion.
        - Removed deprecated module SCons.Sig
        - See CHANGES.txt for more details on other changes
-
-
+       - 3.0.0 should be slightly faster than 2.5.1.  Changes yielded a 15% speed up for
+         null incremental builds.
+       - Updated D language scanner support to latest: 2.071.1.
+       - python -m SCons should now run SCons if it's installed PYTHONPATH
 
 
     Please note the following important changes since release 2.4.1:
diff --git a/src/CHANGES.txt b/src/CHANGES.txt
index ada66b0..b3fec9f 100644
--- a/src/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/src/CHANGES.txt
@@ -4,37 +4,9 @@
 
                             Change Log
 
-RELEASE  VERSION/DATE TO BE FILLED IN LATER
-
-  From John Doe:
-
-    - Whatever John Doe did.
-
 
 RELEASE  VERSION/DATE TO BE FILLED IN LATER
 
-  From Daniel Moody:
-    - Updated the QMTest/TestCmd.py so when using the
-      preserve option, it will be able to print unicode directories.
-    - Also updated test/scons-time/run/option/verbose.py that was
-      not taking into account the output when PRESERVE was enabled
-
-  From Gaurav Juvekar:
-    - Fix issue #2832: Expand construction variables in 'chdir' argument of builders. (PR #463)
-    - Fix issue #2910: Make --tree=all handle Unicode. (PR #427)
-    - Fix issue #2788: Fix typo in documentation example for sconf. (PR #388)
-
-  From Manish Vachharajani:
-    - Update debian rules, compat, and control to not use features
-      deprecated or obsolete in later versions of debhelpers
-    - Update python version to 2.7 in debian/control
-
-  From Russel Winder:
-    - Reordered the default D tools from "dmd, gdc, ldc" to "dmd, ldc, gdc".
-    - Add a ProgramAllAtOnce builder to the dmd, ldc, and gdc tools. (PR #448)
-    - Deprecate a file name exception for very old Fedora LDC installation.
-    - gdc can now handle building shared objects (tested for version 6.3.0).
-
   From William Blevins:
     - Updated D language scanner support to latest: 2.071.1. (PR #1924)
       https://dlang.org/spec/module.html accessed 11 August 2016
@@ -57,10 +29,6 @@ RELEASE  VERSION/DATE TO BE FILLED IN LATER
     - Fixed MSVSProject example code (http://scons.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2979)
     - Defined MS SDK 10.0 and Changed VS 2015 to use SDK 10.0
 
-  From Daniel Moody:
-    - Fixed msvs.py for Visual Studio generated projects which were
-      creating invalid xml for greater than and less than symbols.
-
   From Daniel Holth:
     - Add basic support for PyPy (by deleting __slots__ from Node with a
       metaclass on PyPy); wrap most-used open() calls in 'with' statements to
@@ -68,6 +36,11 @@ RELEASE  VERSION/DATE TO BE FILLED IN LATER
     - Add __main__.py for `python -m SCons` in case it is on PYTHONPATH.
     - Always use highest available pickle protocol for efficiency.
 
+  From Gaurav Juvekar:
+    - Fix issue #2832: Expand construction variables in 'chdir' argument of builders. (PR #463)
+    - Fix issue #2910: Make --tree=all handle Unicode. (PR #427)
+    - Fix issue #2788: Fix typo in documentation example for sconf. (PR #388)
+
   From Alexey Klimkin:
     - Use memoization to optimize PATH evaluation across all dependencies per
       node. (PR #345)
@@ -76,6 +49,8 @@ RELEASE  VERSION/DATE TO BE FILLED IN LATER
     - Fixed msvs.py for Visual Studio Express editions that would report
       "Error  : ValueError: invalid literal for float(): 10.0Exp".
 
+  From Rick Lupton:
+    - Update LaTeX scanner to understand \import and related commands
 
   From Paweł Tomulik:
     - Fixed the issue with LDMODULEVERSIONFLAGS reported by Tim Jennes
@@ -86,13 +61,20 @@ RELEASE  VERSION/DATE TO BE FILLED IN LATER
     - Added LoadableModule to the list of global functions (DefaultEnvironment
       builders).
 
-  From Rick Lupton:
-    - Update LaTeX scanner to understand \import and related commands
+  From Manish Vachharajani:
+    - Update debian rules, compat, and control to not use features
+      deprecated or obsolete in later versions of debhelpers
+    - Update python version to 2.7 in debian/control
 
   From Richard Viney:
     - Fixed PCHPDBFLAGS causing a deprecation warning on MSVC v8 and later when
       using PCHs and PDBs together.
 
+  From Russel Winder:
+    - Reordered the default D tools from "dmd, gdc, ldc" to "dmd, ldc, gdc".
+    - Add a ProgramAllAtOnce builder to the dmd, ldc, and gdc tools. (PR #448)
+    - Deprecate a file name exception for very old Fedora LDC installation.
+    - gdc can now handle building shared objects (tested for version 6.3.0).
 
 RELEASE 2.5.1 - Mon, 03 Nov 2016 13:37:42 -0400
 
diff --git a/src/RELEASE.txt b/src/RELEASE.txt
index f87f889..c7d36e9 100644
--- a/src/RELEASE.txt
+++ b/src/RELEASE.txt
@@ -8,7 +8,8 @@
 
   NEW FUNCTIONALITY
 
-    - Initial support for Python 3.0
+    - Initial support for Python 3.5+
+    - I
 
   DEPRECATED FUNCTIONALITY