Apr 21, 2010
  * Added CMake build system. (Contributed by Nicholas Yue)

Nov 3, 2009 
  * Added dynamic loading of sparse fields.
  * Merged all the various class factory into single ClassFactory.
  * Created base class for reference counted objects, before each 
    class implemented the same ref count functions.
  * Fixed bug in sparse block iterators
  * Main branch is now at version 1.1

Aug 21 2009
  * First "release" into the wild. The official v1.0.0 release branch 
    will be created once any initial kinks have been worked out.