GNU Automake News

2008-01-21
Automake 1.10.1 was released.
2007-10-29
Automake uses git as its primary source repository.
2006-10-15
Automake 1.10 was released.
2005-07-10
Automake 1.9.6 was released.
2005-02-13
Automake 1.9.5 was released.
2004-12-18
Automake 1.9.4 was released.
2004-11-01
Automake 1.9.3 was released.
2004-09-19
Automake 1.9.2 was released. Automake has 10 years.
2004-08-11
Automake 1.9.1 was released
2004-07-28
Automake 1.9 was released
2004-05-16
Automake 1.8.5 was released
2004-04-25
Automake 1.8.4 was released
2004-03-07
Automake 1.8.3 was released
2004-01-12
Automake 1.8.2 was released
2004-01-11
Automake 1.8.1 was released
2003-12-10
Automake 1.8 was released
2003-11-09
Automake 1.7.9 was released
2003-10-07
Automake 1.7.8 was released
2003-09-07
Automake 1.7.7 was released
2003-07-10
Automake 1.7.6 was released
2003-05-18
Automake 1.7.5 was released
2003-04-23
Automake 1.7.4 was released
2003-02-20
Automake 1.7.3 was released
2002-12-06
Automake 1.7.2 was released
2002-10-16
Automake 1.7.1 was released
2002-09-25
Automake 1.7 was released
2002-07-28
Automake 1.4-p6 and Automake 1.6.3 were released
2002-06-14
Automake 1.6.2 was released
2002-04-11
Automake 1.6.1 was released
2002-03-05
Automake 1.6 was released
2001-08-23
Automake 1.5 was released
2001-06-29
Tom Tromey checked in a document describing the history of automatic dependency tracking in Automake. (Edit 2004-09-20: this document moved into the manual.)
2001-06-10
Gary Vaughan has released Automake 1.4-p4, a bug fix release that also adds support for Autoconf 2.50.
2000-12-23
I just updated this page with some old news. It's been a time since any serious work was done on automake. Believe it or not we're edging towards a release...
1999-11-22
The CVS Automake just acquired support for Python.
1999-07-17
The Sourceware Czar has set up Gnats support for Automake. You can now visit the Automake GNATS database and submit bug reports there.
1999-04-27
The new dependency tracking code, on the branch named user-dep-gen-branch is now ready for user testing. Also, per-executable and per-library flags (CFLAGS, CXXFLAGS, etc.) have been implemented on the trunk.
1999-03-30
The archives of the bug-automake mailing list are available for viewing.
1999-03-29
The initial implementation of the new dependency tracking scheme has been checked in on the user-dep-gen-branch branch. This scheme should be able to handle automatic dependency tracking using any compiler (not just gcc) and any make (not just GNU make). In addition, the new scheme should be more reliable than the old one, as dependencies are generated on the end user's machine.
1999-03-25
Automake recently acquired a few new maintainers. This should help responsiveness to bug reports, among other things. The new maintainers aren't up and running yet, but should be in the near future.
1999-03-25
The Automake web pages underwent their first overhaul in a long, long time.