New in 5.8.4 - April 2006

* Day 1 bug in snprintfv: numberd format elements can get mishandled.
* more platform specific variations in test output are handled.
* column 1 apostrophes in generated man page text are now escaped.
* Guile release 1.8.x is accommodated (in progress 3/25/2006)

New in 5.8.3 - February 2006

* Testing cleanups
* To use mmap, you must first mmap more space than used by the file,
  then, if the last bit laps into a page not backed by a file, you have
  to remap that page anonymously.  If you do not first map pages not
  backed by file data, you seg fault trying to remap pages on some systems.
* Make a clean implementation of library option processing.

New in 5.8 - December, 2005

* AutoGen now builds against Guile 1.7.x
* Fixed a small timing hole where the read from the read end of the output
  pipe of the server shell can fail.  (The read is retried.)
* Eliminated the configure code that symlinked all the sources into the
  build directory.
* Added a macro for testing mmap failure to accommodate a picky compiler.
* The minor version number is being bumped.  There is a new (albeit tiny)
  feature being added to the syntax.  See the doc on the pseudo-macro.
* Fixed a bug wherein out-of-order definitions could get mistyped causing
  various catastrophic results.

New in 5.7.3 - October, 2005

* Definition and license text files were mmap-ed in without checking for
  the size being a multiple of a page.  strlen() would seg fault.
  Horrible, horrible design of mmap!
* disable autoopts/test/getopt.test unless autoopts has been fully installed.
  (It requires getopt.tpl which requires a fully installed environment.)
* several other usability improvements to the tear off library.

New in 5.7.2 - July 2005

* template shell code may now use a shell function "die" that will print
  an error message and shoot down the master autogen process.
* the tear-off/add-in libopts library will now specify that the
  "options.h" header is to be installed.
* realpath(3C) usage in libopts has been cleaned up.  It is now only used
  if PATH_MAX is defined for the platform.  canonicalize_file_name(3C) is
  used where available.

New in 5.7.1 - June, 2005

* Update to libtool 1.5.18
* add "arg-range" text to the generated man pages
* Update the FSF address
* added a script to convert the "libopts" tarball into a full,
  independently buildable, project.
