diff --git a/DEVELOPING b/DEVELOPING
index 2f533706db..b26ec80ef7 100644
--- a/DEVELOPING
+++ b/DEVELOPING
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
-LAST RELEASE: Parrot 0.0.5, 17 April 2002
+LAST RELEASE: Parrot 0.0.9, 18 December 2002
 
-This file should only exist in development distributions.  Delete it (and its entry in the MANIFEST) before packaging Parrot up for a CPAN or other release distribution.
\ No newline at end of file
+This file should only exist in development distributions. Delete it
+(and its entry in the MANIFEST) before packaging Parrot up for a CPAN
+or other release distribution.
diff --git a/README b/README
index 1c8be01478..9f0216e225 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-This is Parrot, version 0.0.8
+This is Parrot, version 0.0.9
 -----------------------------
 
 Parrot is Copyright (C) 2001-2002 Yet Another Society. All Rights Reserved.
diff --git a/RELEASE_INSTRUCTIONS b/RELEASE_INSTRUCTIONS
index b589a80ed0..8cdb50fdf8 100644
--- a/RELEASE_INSTRUCTIONS
+++ b/RELEASE_INSTRUCTIONS
@@ -32,11 +32,16 @@ To prepare a release:
         CVS and getting a DEVELOPING file.)
         
     5.  make distclean.
+
+    5.5. This should really be fixed in distclean, but you'll
+        also need to delete all of the empty CVS subdirectories.
+        On Unix, 'find . -name CVS | xargs rmdir' should do the
+        trick safely enough.
     
     6.  Run tools/dev/manicheck.pl and fix any errors it finds.
         
     7.  Make sure everything works--Configure, make and 
-        make test.  Check the Tinderbox and make sure that 
+        make fulltest.  Check the Tinderbox and make sure that 
         everything's green (or that any yellows and reds are
         due to problems with the particular box, like a
         botched compiler upgrade).