diff --git a/.cvsignore b/.cvsignore
index e5a9cf7..b3a7f82 100644
--- a/.cvsignore
+++ b/.cvsignore
@@ -11,10 +11,9 @@
 libaprutil*.la
 aprutil.exp
 exports.c
-export_vars.[ch]
+export_vars.h
 export_vars.sh
 apu-config
-apu-*-config
 apu-config.out
 Debug
 Release
@@ -37,5 +36,4 @@
 autom4te.cache
 build-outputs.mk
 .make.dirs
-apr-util*.pc
-apr-util.spec
+apr-util.pc
diff --git a/include/apr_buckets.h b/include/apr_buckets.h
index 81c29b2..e0bb5bf 100644
--- a/include/apr_buckets.h
+++ b/include/apr_buckets.h
@@ -701,6 +701,17 @@
                                                 apr_off_t point,
                                                 apr_bucket **after_point);
 
+#if APR_NOT_DONE_YET
+/**
+ * consume nbytes from beginning of b -- call apr_bucket_destroy as
+ * appropriate, and/or modify start on last element 
+ * @param b The brigade to consume data from
+ * @param nbytes The number of bytes to consume
+ */
+APU_DECLARE(void) apr_brigade_consume(apr_bucket_brigade *b,
+                                      apr_off_t nbytes);
+#endif
+
 /**
  * Return the total length of the brigade.
  * @param bb The brigade to compute the length of
diff --git a/include/apr_xml.h b/include/apr_xml.h
index 6ff4c88..6c9ea41 100644
--- a/include/apr_xml.h
+++ b/include/apr_xml.h
@@ -29,9 +29,6 @@
 #include "apr_file_io.h"
 
 #include "apu.h"
-#if APR_CHARSET_EBCDIC
-#include "apr_xlate.h"
-#endif
 
 #ifdef __cplusplus
 extern "C" {
@@ -335,19 +332,6 @@
 /** Get the URI item for this XML element */
 #define APR_XML_GET_URI_ITEM(ary, i) (((const char * const *)(ary)->elts)[i])
 
-#if APR_CHARSET_EBCDIC
-/**
- * Convert parsed tree in EBCDIC 
- * @param p The pool to allocate out of
- * @param pdoc The apr_xml_doc to convert.
- * @param xlate The translation handle to use.
- * @return Any errors found during conversion.
- */
-APU_DECLARE(apr_status_t) apr_xml_parser_convert_doc(apr_pool_t *p,
-                                                     apr_xml_doc *pdoc,
-                                                     apr_xlate_t *convset);
-#endif
-
 #ifdef __cplusplus
 }
 #endif
diff --git a/include/apu_version.h b/include/apu_version.h
index cc2229c..4a33488 100644
--- a/include/apu_version.h
+++ b/include/apu_version.h
@@ -62,14 +62,7 @@
 #define APU_MINOR_VERSION       0
 
 /** patch level */
-#define APU_PATCH_VERSION       1
-
-/** 
- *  This symbol is defined for internal, "development" copies of APU. This
- *  symbol will be #undef'd for releases. 
- */
-#define APU_IS_DEV_VERSION
-
+#define APU_PATCH_VERSION       0
 
 /** The formatted string of APU's version */
 #define APU_VERSION_STRING \
diff --git a/renames_pending b/renames_pending
deleted file mode 100644
index 0ebcfe2..0000000
--- a/renames_pending
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Symbol renames pending for apr-util (keep ordered and complete, please!)
-
diff --git a/test/testrmm.c b/test/testrmm.c
index 8203be1..c4dc989 100644
--- a/test/testrmm.c
+++ b/test/testrmm.c
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@
     }
 
     /* We're going to want 10 blocks of data from our target rmm. */
-    size = SHARED_SIZE + apr_rmm_overhead_get(FRAG_COUNT + 1);
+    size = SHARED_SIZE + apr_rmm_overhead_get(FRAG_COUNT);
     printf("Creating anonymous shared memory (%"
            APR_SIZE_T_FMT " bytes).....", size); 
     rv = apr_shm_create(&shm, size, NULL, pool);
@@ -87,24 +87,6 @@
     else {
         return APR_EGENERAL;  
     }
-
-    printf("Checking each fragment for address alignment.....");
-    for (i = 0; i < FRAG_COUNT; i++) {
-        char *c = apr_rmm_addr_get(rmm, off[i]);
-        apr_size_t sc = (apr_size_t)c;
-
-        if (off[i] == 0) {
-            printf("allocation failed for offset %d\n", i);
-            return APR_ENOMEM;
-        }
-
-        if (sc & 7) {
-            printf("Bad alignment for fragment %d; %p not %p!\n",
-                   i, c, (void *)APR_ALIGN_DEFAULT((apr_size_t)c));
-            return APR_EGENERAL;
-        }
-    }
-    fprintf(stdout, "OK\n");   
     
     printf("Setting each fragment to a unique value..........");
     for (i = 0; i < FRAG_COUNT; i++) {
diff --git a/xlate/xlate.c b/xlate/xlate.c
index 4a4f6b5..b75c15d 100644
--- a/xlate/xlate.c
+++ b/xlate/xlate.c
@@ -178,10 +178,9 @@
     else {
         /* reset the iconv descriptor, since it's now in an undefined
          * state. */
-        apr_iconv_close(convset->ich, convset->pool);
-        rv = apr_iconv_open(convset->topage, convset->frompage, 
-                            convset->pool, &convset->ich);
-     }
+        apr_iconv_close(convset->ich);
+        convset->ich = apr_iconv_open(convset->topage, convset->frompage);
+    }
 }
 #endif /* APU_HAVE_APR_ICONV */
 
diff --git a/xml/apr_xml.c b/xml/apr_xml.c
index 4520e8d..f7484ac 100644
--- a/xml/apr_xml.c
+++ b/xml/apr_xml.c
@@ -32,19 +32,15 @@
 
 #define DEBUG_CR "\r\n"
 
-static const char APR_KW_xmlns[] = { 0x78, 0x6D, 0x6C, 0x6E, 0x73, '\0' };
-static const char APR_KW_xmlns_lang[] = { 0x78, 0x6D, 0x6C, 0x3A, 0x6C, 0x61, 0x6E, 0x67, '\0' };
-static const char APR_KW_DAV[] = { 0x44, 0x41, 0x56, 0x3A, '\0' };
-
 /* errors related to namespace processing */
 #define APR_XML_NS_ERROR_UNKNOWN_PREFIX (-1000)
 #define APR_XML_NS_ERROR_INVALID_DECL (-1001)
 
 /* test for a namespace prefix that begins with [Xx][Mm][Ll] */
 #define APR_XML_NS_IS_RESERVED(name) \
-	( (name[0] == 0x58 || name[0] == 0x78) && \
-	  (name[1] == 0x4D || name[1] == 0x6D) && \
-	  (name[2] == 0x4C || name[2] == 0x6C) )
+	( (name[0] == 'X' || name[0] == 'x') && \
+	  (name[1] == 'M' || name[1] == 'm') && \
+	  (name[2] == 'L' || name[2] == 'l') )
 
 
 /* the real (internal) definition of the parser context */
@@ -171,12 +167,12 @@
     for (prev = NULL, attr = elem->attr;
 	 attr;
 	 attr = attr->next) {
-	if (strncmp(attr->name, APR_KW_xmlns, 5) == 0) {
+	if (strncmp(attr->name, "xmlns", 5) == 0) {
 	    const char *prefix = &attr->name[5];
 	    apr_xml_ns_scope *ns_scope;
 
 	    /* test for xmlns:foo= form and xmlns= form */
-	    if (*prefix == 0x3A) {
+	    if (*prefix == ':') {
                 /* a namespace prefix declaration must have a
                    non-empty value. */
                 if (attr->value[0] == '\0') {
@@ -210,7 +206,7 @@
 
 	    /* Note: prev will not be advanced since we just removed "attr" */
 	}
-	else if (strcmp(attr->name, APR_KW_xmlns_lang) == 0) {
+	else if (strcmp(attr->name, "xml:lang") == 0) {
 	    /* save away the language (in quoted form) */
 	    elem->lang = apr_xml_quote_string(parser->p, attr->value, 1);
 
@@ -238,7 +234,7 @@
 	elem->lang = elem->parent->lang;
 
     /* adjust the element's namespace */
-    colon = strchr(elem_name, 0x3A);
+    colon = strchr(elem_name, ':');
     if (colon == NULL) {
 	/*
 	 * The element is using the default namespace, which will always
@@ -270,7 +266,7 @@
          */
         char *attr_name = (char *)attr->name;
 
-	colon = strchr(attr_name, 0x3A);
+	colon = strchr(attr_name, ':');
 	if (colon == NULL) {
 	    /*
 	     * Attributes do NOT use the default namespace. Therefore,
@@ -352,7 +348,7 @@
     parser->doc->namespaces = apr_array_make(pool, 5, sizeof(const char *));
 
     /* ### is there a way to avoid hard-coding this? */
-    apr_xml_insert_uri(parser->doc->namespaces, APR_KW_DAV);
+    apr_xml_insert_uri(parser->doc->namespaces, "DAV:");
 
     parser->xp = XML_ParserCreate(NULL);
     if (parser->xp == NULL) {
@@ -886,90 +882,3 @@
     *pelt = uri;		/* assume uri is const or in a pool */
     return uri_array->nelts - 1;
 }
-
-/* convert the element to EBCDIC */
-#if APR_CHARSET_EBCDIC
-static apr_status_t apr_xml_parser_convert_elem(apr_xml_elem *e,
-                                                apr_xlate_t *convset)
-{
-    apr_xml_attr *a;
-    apr_xml_elem *ec;
-    apr_text *t;
-    apr_size_t inbytes_left, outbytes_left;
-    apr_status_t status;
-
-    inbytes_left = outbytes_left = strlen(e->name);
-    status = apr_xlate_conv_buffer(convset, e->name,  &inbytes_left, (char *) e->name, &outbytes_left);
-    if (status) {
-        return status;
-    }
-
-    for (t = e->first_cdata.first; t != NULL; t = t->next) {
-        inbytes_left = outbytes_left = strlen(t->text);
-        status = apr_xlate_conv_buffer(convset, t->text, &inbytes_left, (char *) t->text, &outbytes_left);
-        if (status) {
-            return status;
-        }
-    }
-
-    for (t = e->following_cdata.first;  t != NULL; t = t->next) {
-        inbytes_left = outbytes_left = strlen(t->text);
-        status = apr_xlate_conv_buffer(convset, t->text, &inbytes_left, (char *) t->text, &outbytes_left);
-        if (status) {
-            return status;
-        }
-    }
-
-    for (a = e->attr; a != NULL; a = a->next) {
-        inbytes_left = outbytes_left = strlen(a->name);
-        status = apr_xlate_conv_buffer(convset, a->name, &inbytes_left, (char *) a->name, &outbytes_left);
-        if (status) {
-            return status;
-        }
-        inbytes_left = outbytes_left = strlen(a->value);
-        status = apr_xlate_conv_buffer(convset, a->value, &inbytes_left, (char *) a->value, &outbytes_left);
-        if (status) {
-            return status;
-        }
-    }
-
-    for (ec = e->first_child; ec != NULL; ec = ec->next) {
-        status = apr_xml_parser_convert_elem(ec, convset);
-        if (status) {
-            return status;
-        }
-    }
-    return APR_SUCCESS;
-}
-
-/* convert the whole document to EBCDIC */
-APU_DECLARE(apr_status_t) apr_xml_parser_convert_doc(apr_pool_t *pool,
-                                                     apr_xml_doc *pdoc,
-                                                     apr_xlate_t *convset)
-{
-    apr_status_t status;
-    /* Don't convert the namespaces: they are constant! */
-    if (pdoc->namespaces != NULL) {
-        int i;
-        apr_array_header_t *namespaces;
-        namespaces = apr_array_make(pool, pdoc->namespaces->nelts, sizeof(const char *));
-        if (namespaces == NULL)
-            return APR_ENOMEM;
-        for (i = 0; i < pdoc->namespaces->nelts; i++) {
-            apr_size_t inbytes_left, outbytes_left;
-            char *ptr = (char *) APR_XML_GET_URI_ITEM(pdoc->namespaces, i);
-            ptr = apr_pstrdup(pool, ptr);
-            if ( ptr == NULL)
-                return APR_ENOMEM;
-            inbytes_left = outbytes_left = strlen(ptr);
-            status = apr_xlate_conv_buffer(convset, ptr, &inbytes_left, ptr, &outbytes_left);
-            if (status) {
-                return status;
-            }
-            apr_xml_insert_uri(namespaces, ptr);
-        }
-        pdoc->namespaces = namespaces;
-    }
-    return apr_xml_parser_convert_elem(pdoc->root, convset);
-}
-#endif