Release 0.2.9 rc1 version.

CONTRIBUTORS.md

@@ -10,13 +10,26 @@
   * Optimize BLAS3 on ICT Loongson 3A.
   * Optimize BLAS3 on Intel Sandy Bridge.
 
+* Werner Saar <wernsaar@googlemail.com>
+  * [2013-03-04] Optimize AVX and FMA4 DGEMM on AMD Bulldozer
+  * [2013-04-27] Optimize AVX and FMA4 TRSM on AMD Bulldozer
+  * [2013-06-09] Optimize AVX and FMA4 SGEMM on AMD Bulldozer
+  * [2013-06-11] Optimize AVX and FMA4 ZGEMM on AMD Bulldozer
+  * [2013-06-12] Optimize AVX and FMA4 CGEMM on AMD Bulldozer
+  * [2013-06-16] Optimize dgemv_n kernel on AMD Bulldozer
+  * [2013-06-20] Optimize ddot, daxpy kernel on AMD Bulldozer
+  * [2013-06-21] Optimize dcopy kernel on AMD Bulldozer
+  * Porting and Optimization on ARM Cortex-A9
+  * Optimization on AMD Piledriver
+  * Optimization on Intel Haswell
+
+## Previous Developers
+
 * Zaheer Chothia <zaheer.chothia@gmail.com>
   * Improve the compatibility about complex number
   * Build LAPACKE: C interface to LAPACK
   * Improve the windows build.
 
-## Previous Developers
-
 * Chen Shaohu <huhumartinwar@gmail.com>
   * Optimize GEMV on the Loongson 3A processor. 
 
@@ -52,16 +65,7 @@ In chronological order:
 
 * Sébastien Villemot <sebastien@debian.org>
   * [2012-11-14] Fix compilation with TARGET=GENERIC. Patch applied to Debian package.
-
-* Werner Saar <wernsaar@googlemail.com>
-  * [2013-03-04] Optimize AVX and FMA4 DGEMM on AMD Bulldozer
-  * [2013-04-27] Optimize AVX and FMA4 TRSM on AMD Bulldozer
-  * [2013-06-09] Optimize AVX and FMA4 SGEMM on AMD Bulldozer
-  * [2013-06-11] Optimize AVX and FMA4 ZGEMM on AMD Bulldozer
-  * [2013-06-12] Optimize AVX and FMA4 CGEMM on AMD Bulldozer
-  * [2013-06-16] Optimize dgemv_n kernel on AMD Bulldozer
-  * [2013-06-20] Optimize ddot, daxpy kernel on AMD Bulldozer
-  * [2013-06-21] Optimize dcopy kernel on AMD Bulldozer
+  * [2013-08-28] Avoid failure on qemu guests declaring an Athlon CPU without 3dnow!
 
 * Kang-Che Sung <Explorer09@gmail.com>
   * [2013-05-17] Fix typo in the document. Re-order the architecture list in getarch.c.
@@ -79,10 +83,34 @@ In chronological order:
   * [2013-07-11] create openblas_get_parallel to retrieve information which parallelization 
     model is used by OpenBLAS.
 
+* Elliot Saba <staticfloat@gmail.com>
+  * [2013-07-22] Add in return value for `interface/trtri.c`
+
 * Sébastien Fabbro <bicatali@gentoo.org>
   * [2013-07-24] Modify makefile to respect user's LDFLAGS
   * [2013-07-24] Add stack markings for GNU as arch-independent for assembler files
 
+* Viral B. Shah <viral@mayin.org>
+  * [2013-08-21] Patch LAPACK XLASD4.f as discussed in JuliaLang/julia#2340
+
+* Lars Buitinck <https://github.com/larsmans>
+  * [2013-08-28] get rid of the generated cblas_noconst.h file
+  * [2013-08-28] Missing threshold in gemm.c
+  * [2013-08-28] fix default prefix handling in makefiles
+
+* yieldthought <https://github.com/yieldthought>
+  * [2013-10-08] Remove -Wl,--retain-symbols-file from dynamic link line to fix tool support
+
+* Keno Fischer <https://github.com/loladiro>
+  * [2013-10-23] Use FC instead of CC to link the dynamic library on OS X
+
+* Christopher Meng <cickumqt@gmail.com>
+  * [2013-12-09] Add DESTDIR support for easier building on RPM based distros.
+                 Use install command instead of cp to install files with permissions control.
+
+* Lucas Beyer <lucasb.eyer.be@gmail.com>
+  * [2013-12-10] Added support for NO_SHARED in make install.
+
 * carlkl <https://github.com/carlkl>
   * [2013-12-13] Fixed LAPACKE building bug on Windows
 

Makefile.rule

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 #
 
 # This library's version
-VERSION = 0.2.8
+VERSION = 0.2.9.rc1
 
 # If you set the suffix, the library name will be libopenblas_$(LIBNAMESUFFIX).a
 # and libopenblas_$(LIBNAMESUFFIX).so. Meanwhile, the soname in shared library