This NEWS file records noteworthy changes, very tersely.
See the manual for detailed information.

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  2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

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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.
