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 SDL Perl are a set of bindings to the Simple DirectMedia Library (SDL).
 
-'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 "Civilization: Call To Power."' --L<www.libsdl.org>
+'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 "Civilization: Call To Power."' --L<www.libsdl.org>
 
 SDL Perl is an active and exciting project with many facets. Explore this website to learn more. 
 
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 =item IRC
 
-Talk to us on channel #sdl.
+Talk to us on channel L<#sdl|http://widget.mibbit.com/?settings=89f140215d60860684cee2f6a917607f&server=irc.perl.org&channel=%23sdl> .
 
 =item Mailing List
 
-Send us an email at sdl-devel@perl.org.
+Send us an email at L<mailing list| mailto:sdl-devel@perl.org>.
+
+Our archives are located at L<mail-archive | http://www.mail-archive.com/sdl-devel@perl.org/> and  L<nntp.perl | http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.sdl.devel>.
+
+We also have a L<rssfeed | http://www.nntp.perl.org/rss/perl.sdl.devel.rdf>.
+
+For help send an empty email to L< sdl-devel-help@perl.org| mailto:sdl-devel-help@perl.org>.
+
+To subscribe to the mailing lists send an empty email to L< sdl-devel-subscribe@perl.org| mailto:sdl-devel-subscribe@perl.org>.
+
+To unsubscribe send an empty email to L< sdl-devel-unsubscribe@perl.org | mailto:sdl-devel-unsubscribe@perl.org>.
 
 =item Testing and Development
 
-Join us on the development wiki. 
+Join us on the trac L<site| http://sdlperl.ath.cx/projects/SDLPerl> to get started on making and grabing tickets. 
+
+To begin testing read L<this| http://sdlperl.ath.cx/projects/SDLPerl/wiki/Testing>.
 
 =back
 
 =head1 Latest News
 
-=head2 November 13th 2009
+=head2 July 01 2010
 
 =head3 CPAN Release
        
-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. 
+L<SDL 2.5|http://search.cpan.org/~kthakore> RC is on CPAN! The new API has many changes and much more improvements. So check it out ;o)
+
+SDL Perl at v2.2.6 on CPAN is the last of it's kind which will have the old API.
 
 =head3 Active Development
 
 SDL Perl is being actively developed to v3.0. The process is as below:
 
-=over
-
-=item v2.3 100% Core of SDL C API migrated without MultiThreading 
-
-Complete access to these functions L<SDL_API | http://www.libsdl.org/cgi/docwiki.cgi/SDL_API>.
-
-MultiThreading is doable with this release but will be focused on later
+=head3 TODO
 
-=item v2.4 SDL_Image, SDL_Net, SDL_Pango, SDL_TTF, SDL_GFX & SDL_Mixer Support
+=over 4
 
-Provide support for SDL + POE collaboration.
+=item *
 
-Provide dependecies for FrozenBubble migration to CPAN. 
+Make SDL work with Frozen Bubble
 
-=item v2.5 ??? MultiThreading and Other Third Party Libraries
+Frozen Bubble is being reviewed as we speak! Until then
 
-This release is undecided as of now. Please talk to us on the Channel or Make Tickets
+  cpan Games::FrozenBubble
 
 =back