NEWS for Morph
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This file contains high-level summaries of user-visible changes in
each Morph release.

Version 13, released 2014-01-10
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New features added:

* New CPU architecture: ppc64 architecture (POWER PC 64-bit). This is
  the change specific for Morph. There are changes to the morphologies
  (in a different git repository) to actually build such systems.

* `morph build` and `morph deploy` now allow `.morph` suffixes in
  command line arguments. The suffixes are stripped internally, so
  Morph behaves as if they suffix wasn't there in the first place.

* The `morph build` command is now a new implementation. The old
  implementation is still available as `morph old-build`, just in case
  the new code is buggy, but will be removed in a future release.
  Likewise, `morph deploy` has a new implementation, but no
  `old-deploy`. Both new implementations should work exactly as the
  old ones, except for bugs.

Bugs fixed:

* When Morph reads git configuration files, it now correctly handles
  whitespace at the end of configuration values.

* `morph deploy` no longer creates and pushes a temporary build
  branch. Pushing it wasn't useful, merely wasteful.

* `morph deploy` now allows cross-architecture deployments, and
  and `morph cross-bootstrap` checks that the system is being built
  supports the target architecture.

Other user-visible changes:

* When preparing to build (when construcing the build graph), Morph
  now reports the ref (SHA1) it uses for each stratum.

* Systems being built must now have at least one stratum, and the
  strata in a system must have at least one chunk that is built using
  the normal (staging area) mode, rather than bootstrap mode.

Version 12, released 2013-11-15
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* NEWS file added.