diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 1e0a77205..a992db7ac 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 YaCy: The Search Engine with the friendly whale
 
-version 0.44svn
+version 0.44
 	* FIXED: special chars(like german umlauts) in tagNames allowed. (Allo)
 	* ADDED: Show public Bookmarks in Bookmarks.html, private ones, if the user is logged in. (Allo)
 	* FIXED: /xml/bookmarks/* now uses one file for private/public entries. private only with password.
@@ -11,7 +11,11 @@ version 0.44svn
 	* UPDATED: index write access (dht transmission, indexing, dht deletion) now completely synchronized (Orbiter)
 	* FIXED: conjunctive search was broken because of wrong data structures, fixed (Orbiter)
 	* UPDATED: more ranking attributes (Orbiter)
-	
+	* ADDED: adding real streaming support for lage files (theli)
+	* ADDED: support of chunked transfer-encoding for http/1.1 clients (theli)
+	* ADDED: support of gzip content-encoding suitable clients (theli)
+	* ADDED: added TOC for pages in wiki (low012)
+
 version 0.43
 	* UPDATED: new database handling of index entry objects, less IO overhead (Orbiter)
 	* ADDED: many new ranking attributes and handling routines (Orbiter)
diff --git a/doc/News.html b/doc/News.html
index 2dbc81314..d365500e0 100644
--- a/doc/News.html
+++ b/doc/News.html
@@ -54,6 +54,67 @@ globalheader();
 
 <p>Release list in reverse order:
 
+<!--
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+
+<br><p>
+<ul>
+<li>New Features</li>
+  <ul>
+  <li>New simplified search page</li>
+  <li>ajax-driven search result enrichment with snippet post-fetch. Snippets that are not available on page load time will be fetched using ajax requests.</li>
+  <li>New 1-2-3(-4) configuration menu makes it easier to configure YaCy for first-time-users</li>
+  <li>New yacy.badwords filters bad topwords</li>
+  <li>Show public Bookmarks in Bookmarks.html, private ones, if the user is logged in.</li>
+  <li>Added a yacybar.xpi to the release</li>
+  </ul>
+<li>Bugfixes</li>
+  <ul>
+  <li>fixed conjunctive search; was broken because of wrong data structures</li>
+  <li>special chars (like german umlauts) are now allowed in bookmark tagNames</li>
+  <li>/xml/bookmarks/* now uses one file for private/public entries. private only with password</li>
+  <li>disabled write cache to avoid database corruption in case of crash</li>
+  <li>bugfixes to HTTP/0.9 header handling</li>
+  <li>fixed re-search bug</li>
+  </ul>
+<li>Enhancements</li>
+  <ul>
+  <li>index write access (dht transmission, indexing, dht deletion) is now completely synchronized, which increases speed and reduces IO</li>
+  <li>there is now a real streaming support for lage files</li>
+  <li>support of chunked transfer-encoding for http/1.1 clients</li>
+  <li>support of gzip content-encoding suitable clients</li>
+  <li>automatic TOC generation for pages in wiki</li>
+  <li>changed user-agent string for yacy crawl access to 'yacybot'</li>
+  </ul>
+</ul>
+
 <br><p>v0.43_20060210_1593
 <ul>
 <li>New Features</li>
diff --git a/readme.txt b/readme.txt
index 73192b6cf..720775a46 100644
--- a/readme.txt
+++ b/readme.txt
@@ -49,6 +49,9 @@ If you like to use YaCy not as proxy but only as distributed
 crawling/search engine, you can do so.
 Start crawling at the 'Index Creation' menu point.
 
+You can add a YaCy toolbar to your Firefox web browser.
+Please install the yacybar.xpi Firefox extension
+
 If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact the author:
 Send an email to Michael Christen (mc@anomic.de) with a meaningful subject
 including the word 'yacy' to prevent that your email gets stuck
@@ -59,5 +62,5 @@ feel free to ask the author for a business proposal to customize YaCy
 according to your needs. We also provide integration solutions if the
 software is about to be integrated into your enterprise application.
 
-Germany, Frankfurt a.M., 22.07.2005
+Germany, Frankfurt a.M., 07.03.2006
 Michael Peter Christen