From 7978a47550aa17e39c9a239182b16b5009682a52 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Richard Vaughan <vaughan@apollo.(none)>
Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2011 16:05:16 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] started release notes for next release (4.1.0)

---
 README.txt  |  2 +-
 RELEASE.txt | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/README.txt b/README.txt
index d6b5a2fb1..fb1382ab2 100644
--- a/README.txt
+++ b/README.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 
-Copyright Richard Vaughan and contributors 1998-2010
+Copyright Richard Vaughan and contributors 1998-2011
 Part of the Player Project (http://playerstage.org)
 
 License
diff --git a/RELEASE.txt b/RELEASE.txt
index 05eee03a1..2f4a00e57 100644
--- a/RELEASE.txt
+++ b/RELEASE.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,29 @@
+Version 4.1.0
+-------------
+- many bugfixes
+
+- visualization options can be loaded from and saved to worldfiles
+
+- API change: new World::Run() methed provides the same interface to
+  GUI and non-GUI worlds (by chmp@github)
+
+- saved screenshots are numbered with leading zeros for convenience
+  when using movie-making tools (by mani-monaj@github)
+
+- major performance enhancement: position updates now run in parallel
+  with sensor updates, using a double-buffer-style alternating pair of
+  occupancy grids
+
+- several minor performance enhancements
+
+- much faster debug visualization (occupancy grid and voxel views)
+
+
+Richard Vaughan (rtv) vaughan@sfu.ca - XX TODO
+
 Version 4.0.1
 -------------
+
 - Bugfixes
 - more sparing use of memory to support very large worlds (square kms!)