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-Discuss Nimrod in our `forum <http://force7.de/heimdall>`_. 
-
-Visit our project page at Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/nimrod.
-
-Bug reports: https://bugs.launchpad.net/nimrod.
-
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-.. include:: ../doc/docs.txt
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-    There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX.
-    We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson.
-
-Here you can download the latest version of the Nimrod Compiler.
-Please choose your platform:
-* source-based installation: `<download/nimrod_0.8.0.zip>`_
-* installer for Windows XP/Vista (i386): `<download/nimrod_0.8.0.exe>`_
-  (includes GCC and everything else you need)
-
-The source-based installation has been tested on these systems:
-* Linux: i386, AMD64
-* Mac OS X: i386
-
-Other UNIX-based operating systems may work. An older version was tested on 
-FreeBSD (i386).
-
-.. include:: ../install.txt
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-====
-Home
-====
-
-  The most important thing in the programming language is the name. A language
-  will not succeed without a good name. I have recently invented a very good
-  name and now I am looking for a suitable language.
-  -- D. E. Knuth
-
-
-**This page is about the Nimrod programming language, which combines Lisp's
-power with Python's readability and C's performance.**
-
-Welcome to Nimrod
------------------
-
-.. container:: snippet
-  *Nimrod looks like this:*
-  
-  .. code-block:: nimrod
-    # Filter key=value pairs
-    import regexprs
-
-    for x in lines("myfile.txt"):
-      if x =~ r"(\w+)=(.*)":
-        echo "Key: ", matches[1], 
-             " Value: ", matches[2]
-
-**Nimrod** is a new statically typed, imperative
-programming language, that supports procedural, object oriented, functional 
-and generic programming styles while remaining simple and efficient. 
-A special feature that Nimrod inherited from Lisp is that Nimrod's abstract 
-syntax tree (*AST*) is part of the specification - this allows a powerful 
-macro system which allows domain specific languages.
-
-Nimrod is a compiled, garbage-collected systems programming language
-which has an excellent productivity/performance ratio. Nimrod's design
-focuses on the 3E: efficiency, expressiveness, elegance (in the order of
-priority).
-
-
-Nimrod is efficient
-===================
-
-* Native code generation (currently via compilation to C), not dependant on a
-  virtual machine: **Nimrod produces small executables without dependencies
-  for easy redistribution.**
-* A fast non-recursive incremental and generational garbage collector that 
-  should be well suited for soft real-time systems (like games).
-* System programming features: Ability to manage your own memory and access the
-  hardware directly. Pointers to garbage collected memory are distinguished
-  from pointers to manually managed memory.
-* Zero-overhead iterators.
-* Cross-module inlining.
-* Dynamic method binding with inlining and without virtual method table.
-* Compile time evaluation of user-defined functions.
-* Whole program dead code elimination: Only *used functions* are included in 
-  the executable.
-* Value-based datatypes: For instance, objects and arrays can be allocated on 
-  the stack.
-
-
-Nimrod is expressive
-====================
-
-* Built-in high level datatypes: strings, sets, sequences, etc.
-* Modern type system with local type inference, tuples, variants, 
-  generics, etc.
-* User-defineable operators; code with new operators is often easier to read
-  than code which overloads built-in operators. In the code snippet, the 
-  ``=~`` operator is defined in the ``regexprs`` module.
-* Macros can modify the abstract syntax tree at compile time.
-
-
-Nimrod is elegant
-=================
-
-* Macros cannot change Nimrod's syntax because there is no need for it. 
-  Nimrod's syntax is flexible enough.
-* Yet Nimrod can be parsed with an LL(1) parser.
-* Statements are grouped by indentation but can span multiple lines.
-  Indentation must not contain tabulators so the compiler always sees
-  the code the same way as you do.
-
-
-Nimrod plays nice with others
-=============================
-
-* The Nimrod Compiler runs on Windows, Linux, BSD and Mac OS X.
-  Porting to other platforms is easy.
-* **There are bindings to GTK2, the Windows API, the POSIX API, OpenGL, SDL, 
-  Cario, Python, Lua, TCL, X11, libzip, PRCE, ODBC, libcurl, mySQL and SQLite.** 
-  New bindings are easily generated in a semi-automatic way.
-* A Pascal to Nimrod conversion utility: A large subset of Object Pascal
-  can be translated to Nimrod automatically!
-* Nimrod's documentation syntax is a subset of the wonderfully readable plaintext 
-  markup syntax 
-  `reStructuredText <http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/user/rst/quickref.html>`_.
-  The documentation generator is very flexible; this website has been generated
-  with it!
-  
-
-Roadmap to 1.0
-==============
-
-Version 0.8.4
-  * general expressions as generic parameters
-  * multimethods
-
-Version 0.9.0
-  * closures and anonymous procs
-  * provide an API for object serialization
-
-Version 1.0.0
-  * stress testing with a better test suite
-  * fix symbol files to make the compiler incremental
-
-
-Planned features beyond 1.0
-===========================
-
-* Threading with a transactional memory modell (the type system may be 
-  enhanced to support extensive compile-time checks for this)
-* Recursive iterators/coroutines
-* Other code generators: LLVM, EcmaScript
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-====
-News
-====
-
-
-2009-09-12 Date Version 0.8.0 released
-======================================
-
-Bugfixes
---------
-- fixed a small bug that caused the compiler to not report unused
-  overloaded symbols
-- fixed a small bug concerning symbol overloading
-- fixed a typo: it's "ambiguous", not "ambigious" ;-)
-- the compiler now detects recursive include files
-- ``system.card`` should work again
-- ``items`` for ``set[char]`` and ``array[char, T]`` should work now
-
-
-Additions
----------
-
-- implemented generic types and two phase symbol lookup in generic routines 
-- template parameters can now have real types
-- implemented generalized raw string literals: ``ident"abc"`` is a shortcut for
-  ``ident(r"abc")``
-- in overloading resolution iterators are separated from procs; iterators now
-  can have the same name+signature as procs
-- symbol lookup in templates can be affected by the new ``bind`` keyword
-- the compiler now accepts a ``--no_main`` switch for better link
-  interoperability with other compiled languages
-- implemented tuple unpacking in ``var`` sections
-- the code generator emits ``default: __assume(0);`` for Visual C++
-  (for optimization)
-- the compiler now checks if a proc has side effects; procs that are declared
-  to have no side effects are rejected if the compiler cannot verify this
-- the format operator ``strutils.%`` now supports ``$#`` for automatic argument
-  counting
-- implemented ``strutils.join``
-
-
-Changes affecting backwards compability
----------------------------------------
-
-- two phase symbol lookup is performed in generic routines
-- ``bind`` is now a reserved word; ``exception`` is no reserved word anymore
-- abstract types have been renamed to distinct types; thus
-  ``distinct`` is now a reserved word; ``abstract`` is no reserved word anymore
-- ``system.openFile`` deprecated: use ``system.open`` instead
-- ``system.closeFile`` deprecated: use ``system.close`` instead
-- ``strutils.replaceStr`` deprecated: use ``strutils.replace`` instead
-- ``strutils.deleteStr`` deprecated: use ``strutils.delete`` instead
-- ``strutils.splitSeq`` deprecated: use ``strutils.split`` instead
-- ``strutils.splitLinesSeq`` deprecated: use ``strutils.splitLines`` instead
-- ``strutils.parseFloat`` does not accept an additional ``start`` parameter 
-  anymore
-
-
-Documentation
--------------
-
-- the manual has been improved
-
-
-
-2009-06-08 Version 0.7.10 released
-==================================
-
-Nimrod version 0.7.10 has been released! Get it `here <./download.html>`_. 
-
-Bugfixes
---------
-
-- fixed bug #374441, #376113
-- the posix module works for Mac OS X again
-- returning an array should now work
-- fixed a serious bug in several parsers: the cached buf pointer 
-  must be updated after a reallocation of the buffer
-- fixed a CSS bug that kept Firefox from rendering parts of
-  the generated documentation properly
-- fixed a bug concerning evaluation of command statements
-- overloading of ``inc``, ``dec``, ``pred``, ``succ`` should now work
-- ``removeDir`` now works as the documentation says: it even removes
-  directories that are not empty
- 
-
-Additions
----------
-
-* zero argument templates/macros can now be invoked without ``()``,
-  because this is not ambiguous
-* new modules in the library:
-  - ``dynlib``: load symbols from a shared library
-  - ``python``: wrapper for the Python programming language
-  - ``tcl``: wrapper for the TCL programming language
-* added ``system.max``, ``system.min`` for open arrays
-* added ``system.each`` built-in
-* added ``os.getFilePermissions``, ``os.setFilePermissions``, 
-  ``os.inclFilePermissions``, ``os.exclFilePermissions``
-* the ``dynlib`` import mechanism now supports a flexible versioning scheme: 
-
-  .. code-block:: nimrod 
-  
-    proc Tcl_Eval(interp: pTcl_Interp, script: cstring): int {.cdecl, 
-      importc, dynlib: "libtcl(8.5|8.4|8.3|8.2|8.1).so.(1|0)".}
-
-* implemented ``abstract`` types
-
-
-Changes affecting backwards compability
----------------------------------------
-
-- the organization within the ``lib`` folder now reflects the documentation;
-  as a result old configuration files need to be updated
-- ``abstract`` is now a reserved keyword
-- ``echo`` is now a built-in macro that accepts a variable numer of 
-  arguments of different types (and calls ``$`` for the arguments that need 
-  it); as a result it cannot be overloaded anymore
-- ``where`` is no keyword anymore
-- installation on UNIX produces a release version of the compiler
-
-
-2009-05-08 Version 0.7.8 released
-=================================
-
-Nimrod version 0.7.8 has been released!
-Apart from bugfixes and added libraries the biggest change is that Nimrod
-now has a new memory manager which: 
-
-- interacts much better with the GC
-- uses less memory
-- is faster than the old memory manager (``dlmalloc``)
-- releases memory back to the operating system
-
-
-Bugfixes
---------
-
-- generics are now processed earlier in the pipeline; thus 
-  generics can be used within macros
-- changed bootstrapping in ``koch.py`` and ``boot.nim`` to fix 
-  bug #369607
-- the compiler now checks that ``yield`` is used inside a loop
-- fixed a bug in the evaluation code for ``system.len``, 
-  ``system.setlen`` and ``system.newSeq``
-- overflow checking for ``newSeq`` fixes a security issue
-
-
-Additions
----------
-
-- new module: ``parsecsv`` for parsing CSV files
-- new module: ``xmlgen`` for generating XML or HTML
-- new module: ``osproc`` for OS process communication
-- added ``math.TRunningStat`` object and its methods
-- added ``strutils.validIdentifier``
-- the reStructuredText parser now supports the ``container`` directive that
-  translates to the HTML ``div`` element
-- the ``cgi`` module registers a handler, so that stack traces contain the
-  HTML ``<br />`` element making CGI applications easier to debug
-- added the ``cgi.decodeData`` iterator
-- ``copy`` and ``newString`` can now be evaluated at compile time. As a 
-  result more procedures from the ``strutils`` module can be evaluated at
-  compile time.
-- ``macros.error`` now prints a stack trace
-- Nimrod now supports the Boehm-Demers-Weiser conservative garbage collector: 
-  The ``--gc:boehm`` command line switch activates it. However, the native 
-  Nimrod collector is faster!
-  
-
-Documentation
--------------
-
-- Nimrod's abstract syntax trees are now documented in the 
-  `macros <macros.html>`_ module. Unfortunately the documentation is still
-  incomplete.
-
-
-2009-04-22 Version 0.7.6 released
-=================================
-
-Nimrod version 0.7.6 has been released! 
-This is mostly a bugfix release. Some new features and libraries have 
-also been implemented.
-
-Bugfixes
---------
-
-- installation on Windows Vista may now work out of the box; please try!
-- fixed a bug that kept the "recursive modules" example from working
-- mixing named and unnamed parameters in a procedure call now works
-- octal numbers with the prefix ``0c`` are now properly supported
-- enumerations now may start with negative values
-- ``parseInt``, ``ParseBiggestInt`` now throw an exception if the
-  string does not end after the parsed number
-- the compiler now handles top-level statements correctly
-- generated ``nimcache`` directory never ends in a slash
-- ``createDir`` now works for global directories under UNIX ("/somepath/here")
-- the compiler now executes the executable with a leading "./" under UNIX
-- the compiler now supports constant arrays of procedure pointers
-- ``elif`` in ``case`` statements now works
-- iterators using an open array parameter now work
-- fixed a bug where in some contexts ``$myEnum`` did not work
-
-
-Additions
----------
-- implemented the passing of a code-block to the last parameter of a 
-  template/macro:
-  
-  .. code-block:: nimrod
-
-    template withFile(f, filename, mode: expr, 
-                      actions: stmt): stmt =
-      block:
-        var f: TFile
-        if openFile(f, filename, mode):
-          try:
-            actions
-          finally:
-            closeFile(f)
-        else:
-          quit("cannot open: " & filename)
-        
-    withFile(txt, "ttempl3.txt", fmWrite):
-      txt.writeln("line 1")
-      txt.writeln("line 2")
-
-- new pragma ``deprecated`` can be used to mark deprecated identifiers
-- added ``system.pop`` built-in for sequences
-- added ``addf``, ``addSep`` and ``validEmailAddress`` to the
-  ``strutils`` module
-- nice ``=~`` template operator for the ``regexprs`` module
-- the scoping rules for ``for``, ``while``, ``if``, ``case`` changed
-  in a subtle way to support the new ``=~`` template
-- added common regular expressions for regexprs
-- ``posix`` module now declares socket stuff
-- new module: ``cgi`` for creating CGI applications
-- new module: ``terminal`` for simple terminal output customization
-- new module: ``parsexml`` for HTML/XML parsing with some support for
-  parsing *dirty* HTML
-- new module: ``web`` for retrieving web pages
-- new module: ``md5`` for computation of MD5 checksums
-- new wrappers: ``mysql``, ``sqlite3``, ``libcurl``
-
-
-Changes affecting backwards compability
----------------------------------------
-
-- ``strutils.findSubStr``, ``strutils.findChars`` deprecated: 
-  use ``strutils.find`` instead
-
-
-Documentation
--------------
-
-- The library is now divided into *pure libraries*, *impure libraries* 
-  and *wrappers*.
-
-
-2009-01-22 Forum added
-======================
-We now have a `forum <http://www.ethexor.com/heimdall>`_ where you can discuss 
-Nimrod. 
-
-
-2009-01-07 Version 0.7.4 released
-=================================
-
-Nimrod version 0.7.4 has been released! 
-
-Bugfixes
---------
-
-- installation on Windows should work now if the directory contains spaces
-- the documentation generator now only renders documentation comments
-- ``\`` is allowed for operators as the manual says
-- in rare cases, the index check has been optimized away, even though
-  it would have been necessary
-- several bugfixes for tuple types
-
-Additions
----------
-
-- added an ``unicode`` module for UTF-8 handling
-- added ``hostOS`` and ``hostCPU`` magics to the ``system`` module
-- ``system.echo`` now accepts multiple arguments
-- added optimization: in some cases inlining of iterators now produces 
-  substantially better code
-- added whole program dead code elimination
-- the magic ``$`` operator now works for enumerations
-- in ``const`` sections advanced compile time evaluation is done: 
-
-.. code-block:: nimrod
-  proc fac(n: int): int = 
-    if n <= 1: return 1
-    else: return n*(fac(n-1))
-    
-  const
-    z = fac(3)  # computes 6 at compile time
-
-Changes affecting backwards compability
----------------------------------------
-
-- renamed ``in_Operator`` to ``contains``: ``in`` is now a template that 
-  translates to ``contains``
-- changed ``strutils.quoteIfSpaceExists`` to ``strutils.quoteIfContainsWhite``
-- the parser is now much more picky about missings commas, etc. If this affects
-  your code too much, try to run your code through the pretty printer.
-- the ``macros`` API is no longer part of the ``system`` module, to use this
-  API you now have to import the ``macros`` module
-
-Documentation
--------------
-
-- added a tutorial
-
-
-
-2008-12-12 Version 0.7.2 released
-=================================
-
-Nimrod version 0.7.2 has been released! This is a bugfix release. This most 
-important fix is that Nimrod now works again on AMD64 (x86_64) processors. No 
-new features have been implemented.
-
-
-2008-11-16 Version 0.7.0 released
-=================================
-
-Nimrod version 0.7.0 has been released!
-Changes:
-* various bug fixes, too many to list them here
-* the installation for UNIX-based systems does not depend on Python any longer
-* the ``koch.py`` script now works with older Python versions (including 1.5.2)
-* changed integer operations and conversions rules
-* added ``GC_ref`` and ``GC_unref`` procs
-* sequences now need to be constructed with the ``@`` operator. This leads to
-  less ambiguities.
-* the compiler now uses less memory and is much faster
-* the GC is now much faster
-* new bindings: zlib, SDL, Xlib, OpenGL, ODBC, Lua
-* the generated C code is much faster to optimize with GCC
-* new libraries: streams, zipfiles
-* the Nimrod compiler has been ported to FreeBSD: it should work on
-  other BSD's too
-
-
-2008-08-22 Version 0.6.0 released
-=================================
-
-Nimrod version 0.6.0 has been released!
-**This is the first version of the compiler that is able to compile itself!**
-A nice side-effect from this is that a source-based installation does not
-depend on FreePascal any longer.
-
-Changes:
-* various bug fixes, too many to list them here
-* cleaned up the type system: records are now superfluous and not
-  supported anymore
-* improved the performance of the garbage collector
-* new modules in the library:
-  - ``parseopt``: a simple to use command line parser
-  - ``hashes``: efficient computation of hash values
-  - ``strtabs``: efficient mapping from strings to strings
-  - ``parsecfg``: an efficient configuration file parser
-* macros and compile-time evaluation implemented (however, still experimental)
-* generics implemented (however, still experimental)
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-[Project]
-Name: "Nimrod"
-Title: "Nimrod Programming Language"
-Logo: "efficient, expressive, elegant"
-Authors: "Andreas Rumpf"
-
-[Links]
-GCC: "http://gcc.gnu.org"
-LLVM: "http://llvm.org"
-
-[Tabs]
-# Menu entry: filename
-home: index
-news: news
-docs: documentation
-download: download
-community: community
-FAQ: question
-
-[Ticker]
-file: ticker
-
-[Documentation]
-doc: "endb;intern;apis;lib;manual;tut1;tut2;nimrodc;overview"
-srcdoc: "system.nim;pure/os;pure/strutils;pure/regexprs;pure/math"
-srcdoc: "pure/complex;pure/times;pure/osproc;pure/pegs;pure/dynlib"
-srcdoc: "pure/parseopt;pure/hashes;pure/strtabs;pure/lexbase"
-srcdoc: "pure/parsecfg;pure/parsexml;pure/parsecsv;pure/parsesql"
-srcdoc: "pure/streams;pure/terminal;pure/cgi;impure/web;pure/unicode"
-srcdoc: "impure/zipfiles;pure/xmlgen;pure/macros"
-
-webdoc: "wrappers/libcurl;pure/md5;wrappers/mysql"
-webdoc: "wrappers/sqlite3;wrappers/python;wrappers/tcl"
-
-webdoc: "posix/posix;wrappers/odbcsql;impure/dialogs"
-webdoc: "wrappers/zip/zlib;wrappers/zip/libzip"
-webdoc: "wrappers/cairo"
-webdoc: "wrappers/gtk"
-webdoc: "windows"
-webdoc: "wrappers/x11;wrappers/opengl;wrappers/sdl;wrappers/lua"
-
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-===========================================
-         Questions and Answers
-===========================================
-
-
-General
-=======
-
-What is Nimrod?
----------------
-
-Nimrod is a new statically typed, imperative
-programming language, that supports procedural, functional, object oriented and
-generic programming styles while remaining simple and efficient. A special
-feature that Nimrod inherited from Lisp is that Nimrod's abstract syntax tree
-(*AST*) is part of the specification - this allows a powerful macro system which
-can be used to create domain specific languages. Nimrod does not sacrifice
-flexibility for speed. You get both.
-
-How is Nimrod licensed?
------------------------
-
-The Nimrod compiler is GPL licensed, the runtime library is LGPL licensed.
-This means that you can use any license for your own programs developed with
-Nimrod. If I receive enough requests with good arguments, I may change the
-license of Nimrod to the BSD license.
-
-How stable is Nimrod?
----------------------
-
-The compiler is in development and some important features are still missing. 
-However, the compiler is quite stable already: It is able to compile itself 
-and a substantial body of other code. Until version 1.0.0 is released, slight 
-incompabilities with older versions of the compiler may be introduced.
-
-
-Compilation
-===========
-
-Execution of GCC fails (Windows)
---------------------------------
-
-On Windows the configuration file ``config\nimrod.cfg`` assumes that GCC is in 
-``$nimrod\dist\mingw\bin``: This is where the Windows installer puts GCC.  
-If you delete the line ``gcc.path = r"$nimrod\dist\mingw\bin"``, Nimrod uses 
-the GCC from your ``PATH`` environment variable. 
-
-If you cannot modify ``$nimrod\config\nimrod.cfg``, copy 
-``$nimrod\config\nimrod.cfg`` to ``$APPDATA\nimrod.cfg`` and modify 
-``$APPDATA\nimrod.cfg`` instead. To determine what ``$APPDATA`` means for your
-Windows account, use the shell command::
-
-  echo %APPDATA%
-
-
-
-How do I use a different C compiler than the default one?
----------------------------------------------------------
-
-Edit the ``config/nimrod.cfg`` file.
-Change the value of the ``cc`` variable to one of the following:
-
-==============  ============================================
-Abbreviation    C/C++ Compiler
-==============  ============================================
-``dmc``         Digital Mars C++
-``wcc``         Watcom C++ (now unsupported!)
-``bcc``         Borland C++ (now unsupported!)
-``vcc``         Microsoft's Visual C++
-``gcc``         Gnu C
-``pcc``         Pelles C (now unsupported!)
-``lcc``         Lcc-win32 (now unsupported!)
-``tcc``         Tiny C
-``llvm_gcc``    LLVM-GCC compiler
-``icc``         Intel C++ compiler
-``ucc``         Generic UNIX C compiler
-==============  ============================================
-
-If your C compiler is not in the above list, try using the
-*generic UNIX C compiler* (``ucc``). If the C compiler needs
-different command line arguments try the ``--passc`` and ``--passl`` switches.
-Unsupported compilers contain serious bugs that keep them from bootstrapping
-Nimrod.
-
-The linker outputs strange errors about missing symbols
--------------------------------------------------------
-
-I have seen this bug only with the GNU linker. The reason for this unknown.
-Try recompiling your code with the ``--force_build`` command line switch.
-
-
-Why is compilation so slow?
----------------------------
-
-There are two reasons for this:
-
-(1) Nimrod always recompiles **everything** (but only calls the C compiler for 
-    modules that changed). In a future version, only modules that have changed 
-    will be recompiled.
-(2) The C compiler that is called by Nimrod may be slow.
-    Especially GCC's compile times are not very heady. On Linux you may be able
-    to get `Tiny C <http://bellard.org/tcc/>`_ to work. TCC has excellent 
-    compile times. You should not use TCC for producing the release version 
-    though, as it has no optimizer.
-
-Note that from version 0.7.10 onwards the default build produces an optimized
-binary.
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-import strutils
-echo "Give a list of integers (separated by spaces): ", 
-     stdin.readLine.splitSeq.each(parseInt).max,
-     " is the maximum!"

diff --git a/web/ticker.txt b/web/ticker.txt
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--- a/web/ticker.txt
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@@ -1,31 +0,0 @@
-| `2009-09-12`:newsdate:
-| Nimrod version 0.8.0 has been released!
-  Get it `here <./download.html>`_.
-
-| `2009-06-08`:newsdate:
-| Nimrod version 0.7.10 has been released!
-
-| `2009-05-08`:newsdate:
-| Nimrod version 0.7.8 has been released!
-
-| `2009-04-22`:newsdate:
-| Nimrod version 0.7.6 has been released!
-
-| `2009-01-22`:newsdate:
-| Forum added!
-
-| `2009-01-07`:newsdate:
-| Nimrod version 0.7.4 has been released!
-
-| `2008-12-12`:newsdate:
-| Nimrod version 0.7.2 has been released!
-
-| `2008-11-16`:newsdate:
-| Nimrod version 0.7.0 has been released!
-
-| `2008-08-22`:newsdate:
-| Nimrod version 0.6.0 has been released!
-
-| `2008-06-22`:newsdate:
-| This page is finally online!
-