Version bump to 20080411.

Also updated CONTRIBUTORS and NEWS.


git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/thrift/trunk@665665 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68
diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS b/CONTRIBUTORS
index 951be0c..fd954f8 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTORS
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS
@@ -1,26 +1,29 @@
+Chad Walters <chad@powerset.com>
+-TJSONProtocol for C++ and Java
+
 Nitay <nitayj@gmail.com>
--Support for "make check".
+-Support for "make check"
 
 William Morgan <w@adap.tv>
--Miscellaneous Ruby improvements.
+-Miscellaneous Ruby improvements
 
 Ben Maurer <bmaurer@andrew.cmu.edu>
--Restructuring the way Autoconf is used.
+-Restructuring the way Autoconf is used
 
 Patrick Collison <patrick@collison.ie>
--Smalltalk bindings.
+-Smalltalk bindings
 
 Dave Simpson <dave@powerset.com>
--Better support for connection tracking in the C++ server.
--Miscellaneous fixes.
+-Better support for connection tracking in the C++ server
+-Miscellaneous fixes
 
 Igor Afanasyev <afan@evernote.com>
 -Perl HttpClient and bugfixes
 
 Todd Berman <tberman@imeem.com>
--MinGW port of the compiler.
--C# bindings.
--MS build task.
+-MinGW port of the compiler
+-C# bindings
+-MS build task
 
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 Release 20070917
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index eb15fd1..2369f61 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,32 @@
+Release Notes for Thrift 20080411
+
+.equals and .hashCode() for Java scturcts (developed by dreiss).
+
+Improvments to the C++ TSocketPool (developed by akhil).
+
+PHP (de)serialization extension (developed by dweatherford).
+
+Add fb303 to contrib (developed by Facebook).
+
+TJSONProtocol for C++ and Java (contributed by Chad Walters of Powerset).
+
+Support for "make check" and better tests (contributed by Nitay).
+
+Smalltalk support (contributed by Patrick Collison).
+
+Dave Simpson <dave@powerset.com>
+Better support for connection tracking in the C++ server (contributed by
+Dave Simpson of Powerset).
+
+Perl HttpClient (contributed by Igor Afanasyev of Evernote).
+
+C# support (contributed by Todd Berman of imeem).
+
+MinGW port of the compiler (contributed by Todd Berman of imeem).
+
+Tons of small improvements and bug fixes.
+
+
 Release Notes for Thrift 20070917
 
 TBinaryProtocol now includes a protocol version number in messaged.
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index eb47c03..c92e047 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 AC_PREREQ(2.59)
 
-AC_INIT([thrift], [20070917])
+AC_INIT([thrift], [20080411])
 
 AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR([.])