Release Notes and API Evolution Reports

The Open Source Initiative cites transparency in their prime mission statement:

Open source is a development method for software that harnesses the power of distributed peer review and transparency of process.

It is important to consumers to know what's going on in a project because it (ideally) creates trust in the project results and in the way those are being consumed.

To help our users to keep up with the rapid (though mostly compatible) change in CDO our downloads page now provides detailed release notes and API evolution reports for each drop:

Here you can see some examples:

• Release Notes for CDO R20120612-1449
• API Evolution Report for CDO I20121028-0441