diff --git a/doc/introduction.html b/doc/introduction.html
index 9b7b8eba0..df3cd52f3 100644
--- a/doc/introduction.html
+++ b/doc/introduction.html
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ virtual reality, scientific visualization and graphics research. This page
 introduces what scene graphs are, why graphics developers use them, and
 details about the OpenSceneGraph project, how to learn how to use it and
 contribute to the OpenSceneGraph community.
-<p><i>Robert Osfield, Project Lead. April 2002.</i>
+<p><i>Robert Osfield, Project Lead. July 2002.</i>
 <br>
 <hr>
 <h3>
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ development model to provide a development library that is legacy free
 and well focused on the solving the task. The OpenSceneGraph delivers on
 the four key benefits of scene graph technology outlined above using the
 following features:
-<ol><i>Performance</i> - supports view frustum culling, small feature culling,
+<ol><i>Performance</i> - supports view frustum culling, occlusion culling, small feature culling,
 Level Of Detail (LOD) nodes, state sorting, vertex arrays and display
 lists as part of the core scene graph. These together make the OpenSceneGraph
 one of the highest performance scene graph available. User feedback is that
@@ -179,10 +179,8 @@ core scene graph and support of public mailing list remains unpaid as are
 the contributions of the rest of the community, but this hasn't impacted
 the quality of the source or support which once you get stuck in you grow
 to appreciate.
-<p>The project is currently in alpha, which means parts of the API are still
-to be developed, or subject to change, but the vast majority of the scene
-graph is there, and a beta will be published within the next few months,
-with a 1.0 release in late summer 2002. Despite the alpha development status,
+<p>The project is currently in beta, which means the main core features are now in
+place, with a 1.0 release in fall 2002. Despite the beta development status,
 the project has already earned the reputation the leading open source scene
 graph, and is establishing itself as a viable alternative to the commercial
 scene graphs. Numerous companies, university researchers and graphics enthusiasts
@@ -220,7 +218,7 @@ page.
 <h3>
 <u>Learning how to use the OpenSceneGraph</u></h3>
 The OpenSceneGraph distribution comes with a reference guide for each of
-the component libraries - osg, osgDB, osgUtil, osgText and osgGLUT, a set
+the component libraries - osg, osgDB, osgUtil, osgText, osgParticle and osgGLUT, a set
 of demos - the source of which can be found in src/Demos. For questions
 or help which can't be easily be answered by the reference guide and demo
 source, one should join the mailing list (details below). There are also
diff --git a/doc/plan.html b/doc/plan.html
index 6c107f3ed..c14257666 100644
--- a/doc/plan.html
+++ b/doc/plan.html
@@ -35,22 +35,14 @@
 
 <h2>
 <u>Plans for future developments</u></h2>
-The plan for the next release after 0.8.45 is to from alpha (all 0.8 series
-version) to beta for the next release, at this point will bump the version
-number up to 0.9.0 and all subsequent 0.9 releases will be beta, up till
-the release of 1.0. The current goal is to move to beta in early summer,
-with 1.0 in late summer, with SIGGRAPH being a possibility.
+Now we have reached the beta phase (0.9.x) of OpenScenegGraph project,
+and are now working towards the full 1.0 release, with a likely 
+release date in fall 2002.
+
 <h3>
-Features planed for the next release (0.9.0) include:</h3>
+Fturue work include:</h3>
 
 <ul>
-<li>
-New osg::Geometry drawable to deprecate osg::GeoSet, the new Geometry class
-will support multiple text coords, use std::vector&lt;> for easy management
-of attributes and support gl extensions to provide greater polygon performance.</li>
-
-<li>
-Multi-texturing support in osg::Texture. osg::TexMat, osg::TexGen.</li>
 
 <li>
 Multi-pass fallback for when multi-texturing is not supported.</li>
@@ -63,10 +55,6 @@ the scene graph.</li>
 Replace osgGLUT with a cleaner windowing API for the demos, move osgGLUT
 out of the distribution and into the bazaar.</li>
 
-<li>
-Introduce a new library osgGA, which acts as GUI abstraction layer, move
-the current osgUtil camera manipulators into osgGA.</li>
-
 <li>
 Introduce a new library osgEnv/osgShapes, which adds support for creating
 shapes and environmental effects such as stars, planets, cloud layers and
@@ -101,7 +89,7 @@ cluster graphics systems. Similar in concept to OpenGL multipipe SDK, except
 cross platform and with support of graphics clusters.</li>
 
 <li>
-osgLP - cross platform library for support for light points.</li>
+osgSim - cross platform library for the visual simulation market with support for light points and small target anti-aliasing.</li>
 </ul>
 
 <h3>
diff --git a/src/osg/Texture.cpp b/src/osg/Texture.cpp
index dd263cf54..962368992 100644
--- a/src/osg/Texture.cpp
+++ b/src/osg/Texture.cpp
@@ -198,11 +198,12 @@ void Texture::apply(State& state) const
         else  if (_image.valid() && _image->data())
         {
             glBindTexture( _target, handle );
+            if (_texParamtersDirty) applyTexParameters(_target,state);
+
             uint& modifiedTag = getModifiedTag(contextID);
             if (_subloadMode == AUTO ||
                 (_subloadMode == IF_DIRTY && modifiedTag != _image->getModifiedTag()))
             {
-                if (_texParamtersDirty) applyTexParameters(_target,state);
                 glTexSubImage2D(_target, 0,
                                 _subloadOffsX, _subloadOffsY,
                                 (_subloadWidth>0)?_subloadWidth:_image->s(), (_subloadHeight>0)?_subloadHeight:_image->t(),