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This NEWS file records noteworthy changes, very tersely.
See the manual for detailed information.
Copyright 1992, 1993, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002,
2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification,
are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright
notice and this notice are preserved.
Version 2.7 (28 March 2011)
* Distribution:
. gettext 0.18.1.
. help2man 1.39.2.
. updated -translations.
Version 2.6 (7 April 2010)
* Distribution:
. make distribution of .tar.xz as well as .tar.gz.
. gettext 0.17.
. gnulib updates.
. use gnulib's srclist-update to keep other common files in sync.
. updated translations.
Version 2.5 (7 February 2010)
* Distribution:
. gnulib updates.
. autoconf 2.65, automake 1.11.1.
(Especially including the make dist security fix.)
. follow latest recommendations for --help and --version.
. updated translations.
Version 2.4 (9 December 2008)
* last greeting option wins; before, the precedence was randomly hardwired.
* FDL version 1.3+ for the documentation.
* Distribution:
. gnulib updates.
. automake 1.10.2.
. Include en@quot and en@boldquot support.
. Remove obsolete translations de_DE and es_AR.
. new (old) translations: ms (Malay), ro (Romansh), th (Thai).
Version 2.3 (29 June 2007)
* GPL version 3.
Version 2.2 (23 November 2006)
* Remove creeping non-feature of reading mail; simplify code accordingly.
* Many improvements to the tests to make them more useful examples.
* --help and --version exit immediately, as specified by GNU standards.
* Distribution:
. use gnulib for shared source files, such as texinfo.tex and getopt.c.
. update for automake 1.10, autoconf 2.61, gettext 0.16.
. new bg (Bulgarian) translation; many updated translations.
Version 2.1.2 (20 July 2002)
* Updated translations: es, fr, fi, nb, pt_BR, ru, sk, uk.
* New translations: eu, fa, es_AR, ga, ka, ro, sr, zh_CN.
Version 2.1.1 (9 June 2002)
* Bugfixes:
. Display the bug reporting address.
Version 2.1.0 (22 May 2002)
* Automake support.
* Experimental NLS ("Native Language Support").
* Translations for ca, da, de, el, eo, es, et, fi, fr, gl, he, hr, hu,
id, it, ja, ko, lv, nb, nl, nn, pl, pt, pt_BR, ru, sk, sl, sv, tr, and uk.
* Test suite.
* Add a contrib directory.
* Manual page, produced with 'help2man'.
* Create proper copyright statement for all output formats.
* New greeting message ('-n', '--next-generation').
* Bugfixes:
. GNU hello ('-m') does not loop forever if MAIL environment variable is
not set.
Version 1.3 (22 May 1993)
* GNU hello now exits immediately and successfully after printing its
version number and/or usage message under the `--version' (or `-v') and
`--help' (or `-h') options.
Version 1.2 (21 May 1993)
* GNU hello can now read your mail with the `-m' (or `--mail') option.
Version 1.1 (16 September 1992)
* There is a new, improved greeting message.
You can use the new `--traditional' option to get the old behavior.
* Zork output compatibility has been added.
* There is now a `NEWS' file (this one), giving a history of
user-visible changes.
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