added 2.4 release note

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@@ -11,9 +11,10 @@
 </ul>
 </li>
 <li><a href="#Latest_News">Latest News</a>
-<ul><li><a href="#November_13th_2009">November 13th 2009</a>
+<ul><li><a href="#Apr_06_2010">Apr 06 2010</a>
 <ul><li><a href="#CPAN_Release">CPAN Release</a></li>
-<li><a href="#Active_Development">Active Development</a>
+<li><a href="#Active_Development">Active Development</a></li>
+<li><a href="#TODO">TODO</a>
 </li>
 </ul>
 </li>
@@ -28,6 +29,10 @@
 </div>
 <h2 id="Welcome">Welcome</h2>
 <div id="Welcome_CONTENT">
+<p>SDL Perl are a set of bindings to the Simple DirectMedia Library (SDL).</p>
+<p>'Simple DirectMedia Layer is a cross-platform multimedia library designed to provide low level access to audio, keyboard, mouse, joystick, 
+3D hardware via OpenGL, and 2D video framebuffer. It is used by MPEG playback software, emulators, and many popular games, including the 
+award winning Linux port of &quot;Civilization: Call To Power.&quot;' --<cite>www.libsdl.org</cite></p>
 <p>SDL Perl is an active and exciting project with many facets. Explore this website to learn more. </p>
 
 </div>
@@ -41,15 +46,16 @@
 <dl>
        <dt>IRC</dt>
        <dd>
-               <p>Talk to us on channel #sdl.</p>
+               <p>Talk to us on channel <a href="http://widget.mibbit.com/?settings=89f140215d60860684cee2f6a917607f&amp;server=irc.perl.org&amp;channel=%23sdl">#sdl</a> .</p>
        </dd>
        <dt>Mailing List</dt>
        <dd>
-               <p>Send us an email at sdl-devel@perl.org.</p>
+               <p>Send us an email at <a href="mailto:sdl-devel@perl.org">mailing list</a>.</p>
        </dd>
        <dt>Testing and Development</dt>
        <dd>
-               <p>Join us on the development wiki. </p>
+               <p>Join us on the trac <a href="http://sdlperl.ath.cx/projects/SDLPerl">site</a> to get started on making and grabing tickets. </p>
+               <p>To begin testing read <a href="http://sdlperl.ath.cx/projects/SDLPerl/wiki/Testing">this</a>.</p>
        </dd>
 </dl>
 
@@ -58,32 +64,28 @@
 <div id="Latest_News_CONTENT">
 
 </div>
-<h2 id="November_13th_2009">November 13th 2009</h2>
-<div id="November_13th_2009_CONTENT">
+<h2 id="Apr_06_2010">Apr 06 2010</h2>
+<div id="Apr_06_2010_CONTENT">
 
 </div>
 <h3 id="CPAN_Release">CPAN Release</h3>
 <div id="CPAN_Release_CONTENT">
-<p>SDL Perl is v2.2.6 on CPAN. The last of it's kind. This is the last release which will have the old API. </p>
+<p><a href="http://search.cpan.org/~kthakore">SDL 2.4</a> is on CPAN! The new API has many changes and much more improvements. So check it out ;o)</p>
+<p>SDL Perl at v2.2.6 on CPAN is the last of it's kind which will have the old API.</p>
 
 </div>
 <h3 id="Active_Development">Active Development</h3>
 <div id="Active_Development_CONTENT">
 <p>SDL Perl is being actively developed to v3.0. The process is as below:</p>
-<dl>
-       <dt>v2.3 100% Core of SDL C API migrated without MultiThreading </dt>
-       <dd>
-               <p>MultiThreading is doable with this release but will be focused on later</p>
-       </dd>
-       <dt>v2.4 SDL_Net, SDL_Pango, SDL_TTF &amp; SDL_Mixer Support</dt>
-       <dd>
-               <p>SDL_Net due to interest in bring POE/AnyEvent to SDL, SDL_Pango to support the new FrozenBubble migration. </p>
-       </dd>
-       <dt>v2.5 ??? MultiThreading and Other Third Party Libraries</dt>
-       <dd>
-               <p>This release is undecided as of now. Please talk to us on the Channel or Make Tickets</p>
-       </dd>
-</dl>
+
+</div>
+<h3 id="TODO">TODO</h3>
+<div id="TODO_CONTENT">
+<ul>
+               <li>Sugar for Core SDL objects  </li>
+               <li>Make SDL work with Frozen Bubble</li>
+</ul>
+
 
 </div>
 </div>
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