diff --git a/Jamfile.jam b/Jamfile.jam
index 9bba987..9e41cda 100644
--- a/Jamfile.jam
+++ b/Jamfile.jam
@@ -106,8 +106,9 @@ for CONFIG in $(CONFIGURATIONS)
 
 # documentation
 Documentation docs/manual.html : docs/manual.qbk : docs/manual.xsl ;
+Documentation docs/quickstart.html : docs/quickstart.qbk : docs/quickstart.xsl ;
 
-Alias docs : docs/manual.html ;
+Alias docs : docs/manual.html docs/quickstart.html ;
 
 # samples
 for SAMPLE in [ Glob docs/samples : *.cpp ]
@@ -133,3 +134,32 @@ for SAMPLE in [ Glob docs/samples : *.cpp ]
 
 	Depends samples : $(EXECUTABLE)_run ;
 }
+
+# release
+VERSION = 0.9 ;
+RELEASE_FILES = 
+	[ Glob contrib : *.cpp *.hpp ] 
+	[ Glob src : *.cpp *.hpp ] 
+	[ Glob docs : *.html *.css ]
+	[ Glob docs/samples : *.cpp *.hpp *.xml ] 
+	[ Glob docs/images : *.png ]
+	[ Glob docs/manual : *.html ]
+	@("scripts/**":W=:X=svn)
+	readme.txt
+	;
+
+actions ZipAction
+{
+	zip -q -9 $(<) $(>)
+}
+
+actions TgzAction
+{
+	tar cf $(<:S=) $(>)
+	gzip -9 $(<:S=)
+}
+
+ZipAction pugixml-$(VERSION).zip : $(RELEASE_FILES) ;
+TgzAction pugixml-$(VERSION).tar.gz : $(RELEASE_FILES) ;
+Depends release : pugixml-$(VERSION).zip pugixml-$(VERSION).tar.gz : $(RELEASE_FILES) ;
+NotFile release ;
diff --git a/readme.txt b/readme.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..58026a0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/readme.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+pugixml 0.9 - an XML processing library
+
+Copyright (C) 2006-2010, by Arseny Kapoulkine (arseny.kapoulkine@gmail.com)
+Report bugs and download new versions at http://code.google.com/p/pugixml/
+
+This is the distribution of pugixml, which is a C++ XML processing library,
+which consists of a DOM-like interface with rich traversal/modification
+capabilities, an extremely fast XML parser which constructs the DOM tree from
+an XML file/buffer, and an XPath 1.0 implementation for complex data-driven
+tree queries. Full Unicode support is also available, with Unicode interface
+variants and conversions between different Unicode encodings (which happen
+automatically during parsing/saving).
+
+The distribution contains the following folders:
+
+	contrib/ - various contributions to pugixml
+
+	docs/ - documentation
+		docs/samples - pugixml usage examples
+		docs/quickstart.html - quick start guide
+		docs/manual.html - complete manual
+
+	scripts/ - project files for IDE/build systems
+
+	src/ - header and source files
+
+	readme.txt - this file.
+
+This library is distributed under the MIT License:
+
+Copyright (c) 2006-2010 Arseny Kapoulkine
+
+Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person
+obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation
+files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without
+restriction, including without limitation the rights to use,
+copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
+copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the
+Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following
+conditions:
+
+The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
+included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
+
+THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
+EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES
+OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND
+NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT
+HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY,
+WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING
+FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR
+OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.