+* Wed Jan 06 2010 Thierry Parmentelat <thierry.parmentelat@sophia.inria.fr> - sfa-0.9-8
+- checkpoint with fewer mentions of geni
+
+* Tue Jan 05 2010 Thierry Parmentelat <thierry.parmentelat@sophia.inria.fr> - sfa-0.9-7
+- checkpointing
+- this is believed to pass the tests; among other things:
+- reworked configuration based on the myplc config with xml skeleton (no more sfa_config)
+
+* Mon Nov 16 2009 anil vengalil <avengali@sophia.inria.fr> - sfa-0.9-6
+- This tag includes:
+- - Sfatables
+- - Preliminary version of hash based authentication
+- - Initial code for Component Manager
+- - Authority structure is moved to /var/lib/sfa/
+- - some bug-fixes
+
+* Fri Oct 09 2009 anil vengalil <avengali@sophia.inria.fr> - sfa-0.9-5
+- Create_slice and get_resources methods are connected to sfatables.
+- Other features include compatibility with RP, handling remote objects created as part of federation, preliminary version of sfatables, call tracability and logging.
+
+* Wed Oct 07 2009 anil vengalil <avengali@sophia.inria.fr> - sfa-0.9-4
+- Bug fix on update and remove_peer_object methods
+- Compatibility with RP, preliminiary version of sfatables, call tracability and logging
+
+* Mon Oct 05 2009 anil vengalil <avengali@sophia.inria.fr> - sfa-0.9-3
+- Compatibility with RP, two additional methods to handle remote objects, call tracability and logging, PLCDB now has single table for sfa records, preliminary version of sfatables (still under development)
+
+* Fri Sep 18 2009 Thierry Parmentelat <thierry.parmentelat@sophia.inria.fr> - sfa-0.9-2
+- compatibility with RefreshPeer
+- incremental mechanism for importing PLC records into SFA tables
+- unified single database (still inside the underlying PLC db postgresql server)
+- includes/improves call traceability and logging features
+- several bug fixes
+
+* Thu Sep 17 2009 Baris Metin <tmetin@sophia.inria.fr>
+- added libxslt-python dependency
+