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@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-2008-11-19
-	ALBERTA 2.1-Beta
+2009-26-3
+	ALBERTA 3.0-rc1
 
 	- per default ALBERTA installs itself into the directory
           hierarchy below "/usr/local/". Previous versions of ALBERTA
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
 
         - fast (i.e. caching) quadratures for faces.
 
-        - (a little) improved quadrature rules for 3d.
+        - marginally improved quadrature rules for 3d.
 
 	- discontinuous orthogonal basis functions up to degree 2.