BIRD 3.0alpha1

Dear BIRD Users, we're presenting you a new alpha version of the Multithreaded BIRD. Contrary to the previous version, you have to set your desired number of threads in config by the threads N; option. Version 3.0alpha1 fixes a lot of bugs found in previous versions. Our tests show that the overall performance may be about 3-8 times better than v2.0.12; yet the real life always brings questions and problems which the development can't anticipate fully. Please run your tests and we hope we get back to you soon with a stable version. Looking forward to your reports. I thank my colleagues and namely Maria for this release! Cheers Ondrej