If you are reading this in the git repository, the contents
refer to *unreleased* changes since the last SCons release.
Past official release announcements appear at:

    https://scons.org/tag/releases.html

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A new SCons release, 4.9.0, is now available on the SCons download page:

    https://scons.org/pages/download.html


Here is a summary of the changes since 4.4.0:

NEW FUNCTIONALITY
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- List new features (presumably why a checkpoint is being released)

DEPRECATED FUNCTIONALITY
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- List anything that's been deprecated since the last release

CHANGED/ENHANCED EXISTING FUNCTIONALITY
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- List modifications to existing features, where the previous behavior
  wouldn't actually be considered a bug

FIXES
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- List fixes of outright bugs

IMPROVEMENTS
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- List improvements that wouldn't be visible to the user in the
  documentation:  performance improvements (describe the circumstances
  under which they would be observed), or major code cleanups

PACKAGING
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- List changes in the way SCons is packaged and/or released

DOCUMENTATION
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- List any significant changes to the documentation (not individual
  typo fixes, even if they're mentioned in src/CHANGES.txt to give
  the contributor credit)

DEVELOPMENT
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- List visible changes in the way SCons is developed

Thanks to the following contributors listed below for their contributions to this release.
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.. code-block:: text

    git shortlog --no-merges -ns 4.0.1..HEAD
