+New in 0.3.10-pre2
+* March 23, 2006
+
+* Add a small accessor function to expose local timezone offset.
+* Improved exception handling and made output more helpful in various places.
+* Better pbuffer runtime detection.
+* Add directory creation capability to file/path library.
+* Added a basic reference counting class to improve robustness of
+ memory management in places. Use this for all scenegraph
+ references, sgmaterial references, sgmatmodel references, and
+ sgsoundsample references.
+* Add support for point sprites.
+* Updates to rain cone rendering.
+* Add a new vector library and integrate that with improved coordinate
+ system conversion code.
+* Mutex locking and cleanup improvements in the threading abstraction
+ library.
+* Add MacOS RenderTexture support.
+* Add a Nasal based io libarary that is not activated by default.
+
+* Various platform related bug fixes.
+* Various compiler related bug/warning fixes.
+* Clean up some things that triggered valgrind warnings.
+* Fix a Nasal cmp() bug.
+
+
+New in 0.3.9
+* November 17, 2005
+
+* Add support for OpenAL 1.1 (with a separate alut library.)
+* Add support for volumetric shadows. Aircraft can cast shadows on themselves
+ as well as onto the ground (by Harald Johnsen.)
+* New 3d volumetric clouds by Harald Johnsen (along with several rounds of
+ followup fixes and improvements.)
+* Remove Mark Harris's old 3d clouds because they were never properly
+ integrated. And we now have new 3d clouds.
+* Add support for seasonal textures (with a set of winter textures added
+ to FlightGear.)
+* Updated Nasal scripting system. Adds several new syntax convenience
+ features, fixes parser bugs, fixes several internal bugs.
+* Our 3d cockpit jitter problem is fixed (woohoo!)
+* Add code to support rendering to a texture.
+* Allow "tip" popups to pop themselves down after the appropriate
+ timeout, even if the sim time is paused.
+* Various low model level animation fixes and additions ... color,
+ transparency, 'chrome' effects, randomized spin, etc.
+* Create our own portable stdint.h implementation.
+* Fixed several memory leaks.
+* removeChildren() added to the property system.
+* Fix many cases of 'const'.
+* Fixes for cygwin, solaris/sun, Mac OS X, MSVC, gcc-3.4.x.
+
+
+New in 0.3.8
+* January 18, 2005
+
+* Configure script does a sanity check for the existence of openal.