<p><pre><code> Note: 2.0.8 was a brown paper bag release that was never announced, but
some mirrors may have picked it up. Please do not use it.
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I'm a native speaker of English, but I don't understand the idiom of "brown paper bag release". A search shows that it's quite widely attested, however.<p>What does it mean (and what's its origin)?
For me the best feature of the 2.0.9 release is that the documentation builds again! I tried compiling 2.0.7 and got some weird errors from texinfo. I couldn't figure out how to fix them quickly so I just installed without documentation. But 2.0.9 builds fine, including documentation, on my system.