The Sage 2.8.3 release is planned for August 24th, 2007. This page should act a place where we collect the changes in one central location in order to avoid a last minute rush and forget some of the changes. New features: * Add as needed Tickets fixed (please add new resolved issues in ascending order of ticket numer): * William Stein: #2 Notebook locking (To quote William: "This was fixed decades ago!") * William Stein: #167 sage web site fixes * Robert Bradshaw: #176 sagex -- add support for the "//" --> floordiv operator (this was done prior to Sage 2.8, we do not know exactly when) * William Stein: #225 loading files and worksheets from urls * Didier Deshommes, Robert Brahshaw: #233 Create QDRF -- quad double real field (this was done prior to Sage 2.8, we do not know exactly when) * Willaim Stein: #434 bug in mwrank interface -- something doesn't work * Paul-Olivier Dehaye: #439 Interface with remote programs allowing for as many hops as needed * Juan M. Bello Rivas: #472 Drop dependencies on flex and bison