A release candidate for 2.0.0 (formerly referred to as release 1.6.0) is available for testing. See the distribution for online help text and other information. The wiki pages will not be updated until release time. Release notes will be available later as well 
. Please add comments to this post for discussions specific to this distribution . Feel free to open issues for specific problems (use 2.0.0-rc1 as affects version). Expected final release is a few weeks off.
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