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@@ -50,8 +50,8 @@
     </p>
     <h3>Current Version</h3>
     <p class="notopmargin">
-    The current version of LITMUS<sup>RT</sup> is <strong>2008.2</strong> and is based on Linux&nbsp;2.6.24. 
-    It was released on 12/01/2008 and includes plugins for the following
+    The current version of LITMUS<sup>RT</sup> is <strong>2008.3</strong> and is based on Linux&nbsp;2.6.24. 
+    It was released on 09/24/2009 and includes plugins for the following
     scheduling policies:
     </p>
     <ul>
@@ -257,7 +257,7 @@ Technology and Applications Symposium</cite>, pp. 342-353, April 2008.
     General Public License (GPL)</a>. 
     </p>
     <p>
-    The current release of LITMUS<sup>RT</sup> is 2008.2. 
+    The current release of LITMUS<sup>RT</sup> is 2008.3. 
     It  consists of our Linux kernel modifications in the form of
     a patch against Linux 2.6.24 and 
 
@@ -266,6 +266,50 @@ Technology and Applications Symposium</cite>, pp. 342-353, April 2008.
     used for tracing with <a href="http://www.cs.unc.edu/~bbb/feather-trace/">Feather-Trace</a> (which is part of the LITMUS<sup>RT</sup> patch).
     </p>
 
+    <h3 class="relname">LITMUS<sup>RT</sup> 2008.3</h3>
+    <div class="release">
+    <p>
+         Based on Linux 2.6.24. Released in September 2009.
+
+    </p>
+    <h4>Files:</h4>
+    <ul>
+         <li>
+                <a href="download/2008.3/litmus-rt-2008.3.patch">litmus-rt-2008.3.patch</a>
+         </li>
+         <li>
+                <a href="download/2008.3/liblitmus-2008.3.tgz">liblitmus-2008.3.tgz</a>
+         </li>
+         <li>
+                <a href="download/2008.3/ft_tools-2008.3.tgz">ft_tools-2008.3.tgz</a>
+         </li>
+
+         <li><a href="download/2008.3/SHA256SUMS">SHA256 check sums</a>
+         </li>
+    </ul>
+    <h4>Major changes (since LITMUS<sup>RT</sup> 2008.2):</h4> 
+         <ul>
+    <li>
+      <code>sys_null_call()</code>, a dummy system call that simplifies determining system call overheads.
+    </li>
+    <li>
+      Support for starting timers on remote CPUs via <code>hrtimer_start_on()</code>.
+    </li>
+    <li>
+      Support for dedicated release handling in GSN-EDF and a corresponding <code>/proc</code> interface.
+    </li>
+    <li>
+      Support for IPI latency tracing.
+    </li>
+    <li>Several bugfixes.</li>
+    <li>Switched to <a href="http://www.scons.org/">scons</a> as build system in libraries.</li>
+    <li>Support for cross compiling the libraries on x86-64 systems to i386 binaries (specify <code>ARCH=i386</code> in your environment).</li>
+         </ul>
+         <p>
+         Please consult the <a href="doc/changes.html">Change Log</a> for further details.
+         </p>
+    </div>
+
     <h3 class="relname">LITMUS<sup>RT</sup> 2008.2</h3>
     <div class="release">
     <p>
@@ -386,11 +430,11 @@ cd $DIR
 # get Linux 2.6.24
 wget http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.24.tar.bz2
 tar xjf linux-2.6.24.tar.bz2
-wget http://www.cs.unc.edu/~anderson/litmus-rt/download/2008.2/litmus-rt-2008.2.patch
+wget http://www.cs.unc.edu/~anderson/litmus-rt/download/2008.3/litmus-rt-2008.3.patch
 mv linux-2.6.24 litmus2008
 # apply the LITMUS RT patch
 cd litmus2008
-patch -p1 &lt; ../litmus-rt-2008.2.patch
+patch -p1 &lt; ../litmus-rt-2008.3.patch
 # create a working kernel configuration
 #  - select HZ=1000
 #  - enable in-kernel preemptions
@@ -406,24 +450,24 @@ make modules
 </pre>
     <p>
       When configuring the kernel, note that there is a menu (at the very end of the list) 
-      with LITMUS<sup>RT</sup>-specific configuration options. For reference, <a href="download/2008.2/qemu-config">we provide a configuration that is known to work under QEMU</a>.
+      with LITMUS<sup>RT</sup>-specific configuration options. For reference, <a href="download/2008.3/qemu-config">we provide a configuration that is known to work under QEMU</a>.
     </p>
 
     <h3>Libraries</h3>
     <p class="notopmargin">
     The user-space library for real-time tasks, <span class="src">liblitmus</span>, 
-    depends on the LITMUS<sup>RT</sup> kernel kernel and provides its own makefile. 
+    depends on the LITMUS<sup>RT</sup> kernel kernel and provides its own build system (based on <a href="http://www.scons.org/">scons</a>). 
     In order to compile <span class="src">liblitmus</span>, you need to adjust the
-    variable <span class="src">KERNEL_DIR</span> in the Makfile to point to your 
+    variable <span class="src">LITMUS_KERNEL</span> in the <span class="src">SConstruct</span> file to point to your 
     copy of the kernel.
     </p>
 <pre class="shell">
 cd $DIR
-wget http://www.cs.unc.edu/~anderson/litmus-rt/download/2008.2/liblitmus-2008.2.tgz
-tar xzf liblitmus-2008.2.tgz
+wget http://www.cs.unc.edu/~anderson/litmus-rt/download/2008.3/liblitmus-2008.3.tgz
+tar xzf liblitmus-2008.3.tgz
 cd liblitmus 
-# change KERNEL_DIR in Makefile to point to the kernel source
-make
+# change LITMUS_KERNEL in SConstruct to point to the kernel source
+scons
 </pre>
     <p class="nobottommargin">
     Please refer to the <a href="#doc">documentation</a> on how to use the LITMUS<sup>RT</sup>