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+## Changes for 0.8 (2013-01-06):
+
+* Add support for new [content types](http://blog.redlinernotes.com/posts/Lessons-from-Coleslaw.html).
+* Support for [Multi-site Publishing](http://blub.co.za/posts/Adding-multi-site-support-to-Coleslaw.html).
+* CCL and Atom feed bugfixes.
+* Major code refactor and docs update.
+
+## Changes for 0.7 (2012-09-20):
+
+* Add commenting support via Disqus plugin.
+* Add formal plugin API with per-page predicate support. (aka "injections")
+* Note jsmpereira's [coleslaw heroku package](https://github.com/jsmpereira/coleslaw-heroku) in README.
+* Support for RSS feeds of arbitrary tags, e.g. "lisp" posts.
+
+## Changes for 0.6.5 (2012-09-12):
+
+* Add support for ATOM feeds.
+* Add support for a sitenav in coleslawrc configs.
+* Template and rendering cleanup.
+* Miscellaneous deployment improvements.
+
+## Changes for 0.6 (2012-08-29):
+
+* Support Markdown in core rather than as a plugin.
+* Improve documentation + README.
+* Copious bugfixes and code cleanups.
+
+## Changes for 0.5 (2012-08-22):
+
+* Initial release.
diff --git a/TODO b/TODO
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@@ -4,12 +4,12 @@ BUGS:
 ; Slugs aren't unicode safe. See [reddit discussion](http://www.reddit.com/r/lisp/comments/yvh6g/coleslaw_jekylllike_static_blogware_in_500_lines/) and [mozilla code](https://github.com/mozilla/unicode-slugify/blob/master/slugify/__init__.py).
 
 TODO:
-0.8
-; Add SHOUT content type. Add shout indices by month. Twitter\Disqus integration with shouts?
-;; needs: shout template or just render function, publish analog for indices of a given ctype?
+0.9
+; Add SHOUT content type.
+;; needs: shout template/render function. Twitter\Disqus integration with shouts?
 ;; Indices fundamentally don't know about content-types. Is that a problem?
 ;; Rename index.posts to something else?
-0.next
+Coleslaw.next
 ; improve date check/error reporting. -> 0.9
 ; doc themes and plugins, s3+hunchentoot. -> 0.9
 ; unit tests -> 0.9
diff --git a/coleslaw.asd b/coleslaw.asd
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 (defsystem #:coleslaw
   :name "coleslaw-core"
   :description "Flexible Lisp Blogware"
-  :version "0.7"
+  :version "0.8"
   :license "BSD"
   :author "Brit Butler <redline6561@gmail.com>"
   :pathname "src/"