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Version 0.68 (Wed Mar 27 2024)
  - Add support for zstd archives
  - Documentation: Massive formatting update of the manual page
  - Documentation: Reword some sections of the manual page
  - Fix compatibility with BSD awk
  - Fix compatibility with GNU awk version 5.0.0 and later
  - Fix compatibility with GNU grep version 3.8 and later
  - Fix compatibility with Solaris ln (#63451)
  - Installation: Fix multiple issues in install-sh (#64430)
  - Test suite: Fix various race conditions (#63651)
  - patches: Find file name with a space in unapplied patches (#41708)
  - pop: Hint at diff -z on failure
  - setup: Document the limitation of spec file support

Version 0.67 (Tue Feb 15 2022)
  - Call pager with original LANG environment variable
  - Consistently complain early if no series file is found
  - Fix handling of symbolic links by several commands
  - Tighten the patch format parsing
  - Reuse the shell (performance)
  - Document the series file format further
  - Document that quilt loads /etc/quilt.quiltrc
  - configure: Make stat configurable
  - series: Minor optimizations
  - setup: Don't obey the settings of any englobing .pc
  - setup: Default to fast mode
  - quilt.el: Fix documentation of quilt-pc-directory
  - quilt.el: Load /etc/quilt.quiltrc if ~/.quiltrc doesn't exist
  - quilt.el: Fix quilt-editable when QUILT_PATCHES_PREFIX is set

Version 0.66 (Thu Mar 28 2019)
  - Add support for lzip archives and patches (#54570)
  - Document QUILT_PC as user-settable
  - configure: Don't require md5sum
  - Test suite: Allow keeping the working directory on failure
  - Test suite: Fix regex for recent versions of perl
  - Test suite: Fix /bin/sh filtering
  - Test suite: Run tests again if test.quiltrc changes
  - Test suite: Handle alternative QUILT_PATCHES values
  - Test suite: Increase code path coverage
  - Test suite: Be verbose on directory error
  - Test suite: Clean up when interrupted
  - Test suite: Prevent test cases from escaping
  - fold: Fix German translation
  - diff: Add missing quotes in basename call (#50862)
  - header: Fix corruption when trailing newline is missing (#50841)
  - mail: Fix patch set threading (#50775)
  - mail: Fix French translation
  - mail: Remove Content-Disposition headers
  - mail: Complain when a patch doesn't exist
  - new: Fix corruption when trailing newline is missing (#54295)
  - refresh: Add missing quotes in basename call (#50862)
  - setup: Add basic support for p7zip (.7z) archives (#49754)
  - setup: Align --fast on --slow for series files
  - quilt.el: Define quilt-edit-top-only before it's used
  - quilt.el: Stop using deprecated toggle-read-only
  - quilt.el: Don't strip directory in quilt-top-patch
  - quilt.el: Fix emacs compatibility issue (#51977)
  - quilt.el: Read QUILT_PC from config file
  - quiltrc: Support all patch formats by default
  - guards: Mention it in quilt manual page
  - compat/getopt: Handle a second separator (#54772)
  - compat/getopt: Allow non-digit parameter embedded in short option (#54772)

Version 0.65 (Wed Oct 09 2016)
  - Translation fixes
  - Project settings have priority
  - Reject binary files in patches
  - Fix a race condition in diff_file
  - Performance: Optimizations to the setup command
  - Performance: Optimizations to the bash completion script
  - Test suite: Improve the edit test case
  - Test suite: Make the symlink test more robust
  - Test suite: Test backup failure
  - Test suite: Test the header command with hard links
  - diff: Report diff failures
  - edit: Fix a corner case bug
  - mail: Fix the help text
  - push: Fix the synopsis
  - refresh: Do not remove symlinks
  - refresh: Break links to read-only patch files
  - refresh: Always preserve modification time
  - setup: Report failed look-ups in inspect-wrapper
  - quilt.el: Fix quilt-editable when patches are stored in subdirs
  - bash_completion: Handle spaces in file names
  - bash_completion: Update the list of commands
  - bash_completion: Add new command options
  - bash_completion: Fix handling of mail, new, push options
  - guards: Simplify the help text
  - guards: Include the file name also in the "Not found" case
  - guards: Add support for an external filelist in --check mode
  - guards: Report which config file has problem in --check mode
  - guards: Documentation update
  - guards: Clarify a user message

Version 0.64 (Mon Feb 09 2015)
  - Check for series file consistency
  - Performance: Several optimizations
  - Test suite: Several fixes and coverage improvements
  - Test suite: Run the tests in predictable order
  - files: Add support for unapplied patches
  - graph: Check for graphviz availability
  - mail: Remove procmail dependency
  - mail: Don't include the release number in User-Agent
  - pop: Add --refresh option
  - push: Add --refresh option
  - push: Do not use interactive mode with -f
  - setup: Skip version check
  - setup: Check for rpmbuild availability
  - setup: Handle long options passed to tar
  - setup: Several cleanups and minor fixes
  - setup: Major performance optimizations
  - setup: Fix path to extra patches in series file
  - setup: Trace calls earlier
  - setup: Add --fast option
  - setup: Fix link creation
  - quilt.el: Fix tramp support
  - quilt.el: Fix patch select completion

Version 0.63 (Sun May 25 2014)
  - New NEWS file, containing a human-readable changelog
  - Option -E is no longer passed to patch by default
  - Huge performance improvement (e.g., for commands series, applied and
    unapplied)
  - configure: Add compat symlinks for md5sum
  - Return 2 when there is nothing to do, contrasting with errors (ret=1)
  - Exit with an error when diff's retcode=2 (error) on patch refresh
  - bash_completion: cleanups and performance improvement (Savannah's #27111)
  - test/run: Use perl module Text::ParseWords (+ performance improvement)
  - Add some tests to our testsuite, for a better coverage
  - Fix heuristic for unapplied patches with timestamps
  - Bug fix: Patches emptying files should work now
  - Bug fix: Check for duplicate patch in series (Savannah's #20628)
  - Portability fixes for older Bash and GNU patch

Version 0.62 (Wed May 07 2014)
  - Was a buggy release, with an incomplete tarfile

Version 0.61 (Sun Dec 08 2013)
  - Almost two years of fixes and minor improvements
  - Fix support for ./configure --with-xargs
  - Parameter quoting fixes to many commands
  - Various fixes to the pop, push, refresh and patches commands
  - Translation fixes
  - setup: Many fixes and improvements
  - remove-trailing-ws: Several fixes and improvements
  - remove-trailing-ws: Add a dedicated test case
  - quilt.el: Many fixes and improvements (emacs integration)

Version 0.60 (Wed Feb 29 2012)
  - BSD compatibility improvements
  - grep: Support file names which include spaces
  - import: Fix import of relative patches
  - mail: Several fixes
  - setup: Support directory and archive names which include spaces
  - backup-files: rewritten from C to bash
  - backup-files: Add a dedicated test case

Version 0.51 (Sat Jan 28 2012)
  - Fix support for ./configure --docdir
  - Various $TMPDIR fixes
  - mail: Fix delivery address checking
  - mail: CC people in more common patch headers
  - push: Fix bash completion
  - inspect: Complain if wrapper script can't be executed

Version 0.50 (Mon Dec 5 2011)
  - 34 months of fixes and improvements, too many to list them all
  - Fix detection of the patch version
  - Avoid error messages when building due to missing git-desc file
  - Add support for lzma and xz compression formats
  - import: Fix confusing French translation
  - mail: Stop using =~ for older versions of bash
  - mail: Fix a temporary directory leak
  - revert: Stop using cp -l
  - revert: Add bash completion support
  - setup: Add --fuzz parameter
  - setup: Add support for reverse patches
  - inspect: Fix shell syntax errors
  - Fix error in test case create-delete

Version 0.48 (Thu Jan 29 2009)
  - fold: Fix bash completion
  - mail: Don't use GNU awk extensions
  - mail: Check for formail
  - setup: Fix for rpm 4.6
  - Fix error in test case import

Version 0.47 (Thu Aug 21 2008)
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Version 0.46 (Thu Oct 19 2006)
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Version 0.45 (Mon Apr 24 2006)
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Version 0.42 (Tue Jul 26 2005)
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Version 0.40 (Fri Apr 29 2005)
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Version 0.39 (Thu Feb 10 2005)
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Version 0.37 (Sun Oct 17 2004)
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Version 0.36 (Wed Sep 22 2004)
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Version 0.35 (Thu Jul 15 2004)
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Version 0.34 (Thu Jun 10 2004)
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Version 0.33 (Sun Jun 06 2004)
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Version 0.32 (Sat Mar 13 2004)
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Version 0.30 (Wed Jan 28 2004)
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Version 0.29 (Wed Nov 12 2003)
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Version 0.28 (Fri Oct 31 2003)
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Version 0.27 (Tue Oct 28 2003)
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Version 0.26 (Tue Oct 21 2003)
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