Alembic .9 Beta Available

[Alembic Team]

Welcome to the release of Alembic .9

The collaborative effort between Lucasfilm and Sony has been going
well and we're pleased to bring this beta release to you.

Release documentation and the update itself can be found on at:
http://code.google.com/p/alembic/

There are some important things to note about this .9 release:
- This is not a 1.0, therefore commercial or date driven work should
not depend on this version
- We welcome feedback and encourage you to post to the Alembic
discussion list: http://groups.google.com/group/alembic-discussion or
email us directly.
- We'd like to collect all .9 feedback during the month of November.
- We are targeting a 1.0 release early 2011, but that will depend on
the reports we get on this version. Therefore, no dates are committed
to at this time.

We are pleased with the progress we've made so far, but really look
forward to some real-world testing outside of our two studios.

Thanks to everyone who has been contributing so far, not only at
Lucasfilm and Sony, but to our partners and friends who have been
encouraging us on this project. A special note of thanks goes to Chris
Horvath, who has recently moved to Sydney to work at Fuel. His daily
contributions and passion will be missed.

Richard Kerris, Rob Bredow and the entire Alembic Team