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 v1.4
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+* fixed issue #609: Graph viz tool - different background color 
+
+* fixed issue #608: arangosh config files - eventually missing in the manual
+
+* fixed issue #607: Admin interface: no core documentation
+
+* fixed issue #603: Aardvark Foxx App Manager 
+
+* fixed a bug in type-mapping between AQL user functions and the AQL layer
+
+  The bug caused errors like the following when working with collection documents
+  in an AQL user function:
+
+      TypeError: Cannot assign to read only property '_id' of #<ShapedJson>
+
+* create less system collections when creating a new database
+
+  This is achieved by deferring collection creation until the collections are actually
+  needed by ArangoDB. The following collections are affected by the change:
+  - `_fishbowl`
+  - `_structures`
+
+
+v1.4.0-beta2 (2013-10-14)
+-------------------------
+
 * only the following system collections will be excluded from replication from now on:
   - `_replication`
   - `_trx`