# HG changeset patch
# User John Bailey <rekkanoryo@rekkanoryo.org>
# Date 1224383590 0
# Node ID 577f9df685c2724035e72341dce60f7b9e21a287
# Parent  169c7abf41b572bb92f1846df375e523625903ef# Parent  d9f2bfff6aba92f6f54e3277e71b3c7a3a897d48
merge of '4f7bf56fa49ba320a72f34b0df3e12c95b6bd84d'
     and '5b118704741ad92794d9a27021f3862681c7b048'

diff -r 169c7abf41b5 -r 577f9df685c2 NEWS
--- a/NEWS	Sun Oct 19 02:25:04 2008 +0000
+++ b/NEWS	Sun Oct 19 02:33:10 2008 +0000
@@ -17,6 +17,12 @@
 	I've just about had enough of them. Fortunately Pidgin is still fun,
 	and this release should be superb.
 
+	John: Although our services were down for quite some time, we didn't
+	lose any data, except perhaps some mail that would have failed to make
+	it to us.  Overall, the only major effect it had was to delay this
+	release far longer than we expected.  Hopefully the bugfixes make you
+	happy!
+
 2.5.1 (08/30/2008):
 	Kevin: This release is mainly a bug-fix release.  It solves a few
 	known crashes and updates some of our artwork.  Google's Summer of