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-Subject: ANNOUNCE: Octave Version 2.0.7 released
+Subject: ANNOUNCE: Octave Version 2.0.8 released
 
-Octave version 2.0.7 is now available for ftp from ftp.che.wisc.edu
+Octave version 2.0.8 is now available for ftp from ftp.che.wisc.edu
 in the directory /pub/octave.  Diffs from the previous release are
 also available in the same directory.
 
-  -rw-r--r--   1 jwe  3345256 Jun  4 13:42 octave-2.0.7.tar.gz
-  -rw-r--r--   1 jwe     4120 Jun  4 13:43 octave-2.0.6-2.0.7.patch.gz
+  -rw-r--r--   1 jwe  3369407 Jun 23 15:44 octave-2.0.8.tar.gz
+  -rw-r--r--   1 jwe    41993 Jun 23 14:47 octave-2.0.7-2.0.8.patch.gz
 
 Most bugs reported since the release of version 2.0 have been fixed.
 
-This is a bug-fixing release.  There are no new features.
+This is a bug-fixing release.  There are only a few new features:
+
+  * If the argument to eig() is symmetric, Octave uses the specialized
+    Lapack subroutine for symmetric matrices for a significant
+    increase in performance.
+
+  * It is now possible to use the mkoctfile script to create .oct
+    files from multiple source and object files.
 
 Octave is a high-level interactive language primarily intended for
 numerical computations.  It is mostly compatible with MATLAB.