[Remind-Fans] Remind 05.01.00 BETA 1 is available

[Dianne Skoll]

Hi, everyone,

I'm pleased to announce the availability of Remind 05.01.00 BETA 1.  This
is a beta release, so please keep that in mind.  However, I'd love to
have as many people test it as possible.  The standout new feature is the
inclusion of holiday files for over 100 countries, based on the excellent
Python "holidays" project at https://pypi.org/project/holidays/

Tar: https://dianne.skoll.ca/projects/remind/download/remind-05.01.00-BETA-1.tar.gz
GPG: https://dianne.skoll.ca/projects/remind/download/remind-05.01.00-BETA-1.tar.gz.sig

Release notes are below.

Regards,

Dianne.

* VERSION 5.1 Patch 0 - 2024-??-??

- MAJOR IMPROVEMENT: Include holiday files for many countries and
  regions, courtesy of the Python "holidays" project:
  https://pypi.org/project/holidays/  See include/holidays/README
  for usage instructions and important caveats

- NEW FEATURE: remind: Added the $DedupeReminders system variable; see
  its documentation in the remind man page for details.

- NEW FEATURE: remind: Added the FRENAME command to rename a user-defined
  function.  See its documentation in the remind man page for use-cases.

- NEW FEATURE: remind: Added the $DefaultDelta system variable that
  specifies a default (date) delta for reminders that lack one.  It is
  analogous to the default time delta system variable $DefaultTDelta.

- IMPROVEMENT: remind: Added a way for the output of msgsuffix() to appear
  on the same line as a reminder rather than on the next line.  See the
  remind man page for details.

- UPDATE: contrib/ical2rem: Update to upstream version 0.8

- DOCUMENTATION FIXES: Many updates and clarifications to the man pages.

- BUG FIX: Fixed configure.ac so that autoreconf works.

* VERSION 5.0 Patch 7 - 2024-10-16