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The NCBI SRA Software Development Kit
Contact: sra-tools@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

2011-APRIL-29
  2.0.1 Release

2011-APRIL-8
  2.0.1 Release candidate 1
  reader tools support new compression facility

2011-MARCH-24
  2.0.0 Release candidate 6 (final)

2011-JANUARY-26
  Release candidate 4

2010-DECEMBER-29
  Loaders have been in test
  Release Candidate 1

2010-DECEMBER-05
  Initial release of version 2.0 code
  Based upon VDB.2
  Tri-platform: Linux, MacOSX and Windows
  All reader/dumper tools are backward compatible with v1 data
  Loaders are still considered pre-release, currently in testing phase.
