diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
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+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+=== release 0.1.0 ===
+
+2009-09-26  Thomas Vander Stichele  <thomas at apestaart dot org>
+
+	* NEWS:
+	* RELEASE:
+	* configure.ac:
+	  Releasing 0.1.0, "Youngblood".
+
 2009-09-19  Thomas Vander Stichele  <thomas at apestaart dot org>
 
 	* morituri/program/cdparanoia.py:
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
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+This is morituri 0.1.0, "Youngblood"
+
+Coverage in 0.1.0: 62 %   (1348 / 2150), 49 python tests
+
+Features added in 0.1.0:
+
+- support for MusicBrainz for metadata lookup
+- support for AccurateRip verification
+- detects sample read offset of drives
+- performs test and copy rip
+- detects and rips Hidden Track One Audio
+- templates for file and directory naming
+- support for lossless encoding only for now
+- tagging using GStreamer
+- for now, only a command line client (rip) is shipped
+
+
diff --git a/RELEASE b/RELEASE
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+morituri is a CD ripper aiming for accuracy over speed.
+Its features are modeled to compare with Exact Audio Copy on Windows.
+
+This is morituri 0.1.0 "Youngblood", the first public release of morituri!
+This is intended as a release for daring and curious people who've had enough
+of the fact that Windows has a more accurate CD ripper than Linux.
+
+This is a release to open up morituri to wider feedback and to start having
+people using it.
+
+FEATURES
+--------
+- support for MusicBrainz for metadata lookup
+- support for AccurateRip verification
+- detects sample read offset of drives
+- performs test and copy rip
+- detects and rips Hidden Track One Audio
+- templates for file and directory naming
+- support for lossless encoding only for now
+- tagging using GStreamer
+- for now, only a command line client (rip) is shipped
+
+REQUIREMENTS
+------------
+- cdparanoia, for the actual ripping
+- cdrdao, for session, TOC, pregap, and ISRC extraction
+- GStreamer and its python bindings, for encoding
+- python musicbrainz2, for metadata lookup
+- pycdio, for drive identification (optional)
+
+GETTING MORITURI
+----------------
+
+If you are building from a source tarball or checkout, you can choose to
+use morituri installed or uninstalled.
+
+- getting:
+  - Change to a directory where you want to put the morituri source code
+    (For example, $HOME/dev/ext or $HOME/prefix/src)
+  - source: download tarball, unpack, and change to its directory
+  - checkout:
+    svn co https://thomas.apestaart.org/morituri/svn/trunk morituri
+    cd morituri
+    ./autogen.sh
+
+- building:
+  ./configure
+  make
+
+- you can now choose to install it or run it uninstalled.
+  - installing:
+    make install
+  - running uninstalled:
+    ln -sf `pwd`/misc/morituri-uninstalled $HOME/bin/morituri-trunk
+    morituri-trunk
+    (this drops you in a shell where everything is set up to use morituri)
+
+RUNNING MORITURI
+----------------
+
+morituri currently only has a command-line interface called 'rip'
+
+rip is self-documenting.
+rip -h gives you the basic instructions.
+
+rip implements a tree of commands; for example, the top-level 'changelog'
+command has a number of sub-commands.
+
+Positioning of arguments is important;
+  rip cd -d (device) rip
+is correct, while
+  rip cd rip -d (device)
+is not, because the -d argument applies to the rip command.
+
+GETTING STARTED
+---------------
+
+The simplest way to get started making accurate rips is:
+
+- pick a relatively popular CD that has a good change of being in the
+  AccurateRip database
+- find the drive's offset by running
+  rip offset find
+- wait for it to complete; this might take a while
+- optionally, confirm this offset with two more discs
+- rip the disc by running
+  rip cd rip --offset (the number you got before)
+  
+FILING BUGS
+-----------
+
+morituri's bug tracker is at https://thomas.apestaart.org/morituri/trac/
+When filing bugs, please run the failing command with the environment variable
+RIP_DEBUG set; for example:
+
+  RIP_DEBUG=5 rip offset find > morituri.log 2>&1
+  gzip morituri.log
+
+And attach the gzipped log file to your bug report.
+
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
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 dnl initialize autoconf
 dnl when going to/from release please remove/add the nano (fourth number)
 dnl releases only do Wall, cvs and prerelease does Werror too
-AC_INIT(morituri, 0.0.0.1,
-   http://thomas.apestaart.org/thomas/trac/newticket?component=morituri,
+AC_INIT(morituri, 0.1.0,
+   http://thomas.apestaart.org/morituri/trac/newticket,
    morituri)
 
 dnl initialize automake