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3.8.5 -> 3.8.6
	- Fixed memory corruption caused by rotation directory which does not
	  exist with "sharedscripts" together with "prerotate" script.

3.8.4 -> 3.8.5
	- Improved rotation during daylight saving time and between timezone
	  changes.
	- Fixed ACL setting problem caused by ext3 erroneously reporting ENOSYS
	  instead of ENOSUP.
	- Do not continue with rotation if state file is corrupted.
	- Make logrotate.status creation atomic.
	- Allow "hourly" rotation. See manpage for more information.
	- Use "/bin/echo" in tests. Fixes tests execution in Dash.
	- Do no try to parse config files bigger than 16MB.
	- Improved manpage consistency and formatting.
	- Fix race condition between acl_set_fd() and fchmod().

3.8.3 -> 3.8.4
	- Added --version command line option
	- Disable ACL tests if logrotate is not compiled WITH_ACL support or if 
	  ACLs are not supported by the system running tests
	- Disable SELinux tests if logrotate is not compiled WITH_SELINUX support
	  or if SELinux is not supported by the system running tests
	- Fixed bug which prevented skipping particular log file config
	  if the config contained errors.
	- Fixed skipping of configs containing firstaction/lastaction scripts
	  with '}' character in case of error before these scripts.
	- Support also 'K' unit for *size directives.
	- Added preremove option to let admin to do something with the old logs
	  before they are removed by logrotate.
	- Fixed possible loop in tabooext parsing.
	- Move code to set SELinux context before compressLogFile calls to create
	  compressed log files with the proper context.
	- Call prerotate/postrotate script only for really rotated files in
	  nosharedscripts mode (as stated in man page).

3.8.2 -> 3.8.3
	- Fixed setting "size" bigger than 4GB on 32bit architectures
	- Do not overwrite mode set by "create" option when using ACL. "create"
	  directive is now not mixed up with ACLs. If you use "create" in config
	  file and log file has some ACLs set, ACLs are not kept and are
	  overwritten by the mode set in "create" directive.
	- Mode argument in "create" directive can be omitted. Only owner and group
	  is set in this case. Check man page for more info.

3.8.1 -> 3.8.2
	- show error and ignore config if '{' is not present after log files
	  declaration
	- support whitespaces in compressoptions directive
	- support for tilde expansion in config files
	- 'su' directive does not affect script execution - scripts
	  are executed as a root if 'su' directive is present
	- fixed mail sending for 'mailfirst', 'dateext' and 'delaycompress'
	  combination
	- do not use gzip/gunzip from /usr/local on Solaris
	- add O_NOFOLLOW when opening files as safeguard against symlink tricks.
	  Symlinks rotation is now officially unsupported. It didn't work
	  as expected in the past anyway.
	- do not run external programs with uid != euid
	- fixed potential bad-free when ACL is used
	- Do not include alloca.h on NetBSD, since alloca() is declared in
	  stdlib.h there
	- 13 new tests added

3.8.0 -> 3.8.1
	- fixed 1 memory leak in prerotateSingleLog
	- another fixes for Solaris
	- fixed HP-UX compilation and default config 
	- do not redirect logrotate errors to /dev/null in cron script
	- fixed "size" directive parsing
	- handle situation when acl_get_fd is supported, but acl_set_fd is not
	- added "maxsize" directive (see man page)

3.7.9 -> 3.8.0
	- added "dateyesterday" option (see man page)
	- fixed crash when config file had exactly 4096*N bytes
	- added WITH_ACL make option to link against -lacl and preserve ACLs
	  during rotation
	- added "su" option to define user/group for rotation. Logrotate now
	  skips directories which are world writable or writable by group
	  which is not "root" unless "su" directive is used.
	- fixed CVE-2011-1098: race condition by creation of new files
	- fixed possible shell injection when using "shred" directive (CVE-2011-1154)
	- fixed escaping of file names within 'write state' action (CVE-2011-1155)
	- better 'size' directive description
	- fixed possible buffer-overflow when reading config files
	- NetBSD/FreeBSD compilation fixes
	- Solaris compilation fixes

3.7.8 -> 3.7.9
	- fix building on Solaris (patch by András Szilárd)
	- don't copy config files on the stack -- mmap them instead
	  (fixes segfaults with too large/invalid config files)
	- symlinked conf file man page as requested by Fedora guidelines
	  (thanks to Ivana Hutarova Varekova)
	- cron script logrotate.cron redirects output to /dev/null
	- added rotating (copying) non-writable, readable files
	  (patch by Henrique Martins)
	- fixed missingok problem with globs
	  (taken from the Debian patches by Ted Percival 
	   <ted@midg3t.net>)
	- fixed bug when log files could be removed even there was
	  some error in rotation process.
	- allow setting size greater than 4.2GB in configuration file
	- pass currently rotated file to postrotate/prerotate script
	  in nosharedscripts mode
	- added new TabooExts: ".disabled", ".dpkg-old", ".dpkg-dist",
	  ".dpkg-new", ".cfsaved", ".ucf-old", ".ucf-dist", ".ucf-new"
	  (taken from the Debian patches by Paul Martin <pm@debian.org>)
	- Don't change utime atime/mtime when compressing files
	  (taken from the Debian patches by Paul Martin <pm@debian.org>)
	- Better *rotate scripts parser. (taken from the Debian patches)
	- Allow 'include' directive in log file definitions

3.7.7 -> 3.7.8
	- do not exit on status file errors
	- limit config file inclusion nesting
	- use hashes for status file handling (patch by Petr Tesarik
	  <ptesarik@suse.cz> and Leonardo Chiquitto)
	- dateformat to allow unixtime (patch by Sami Kerola
	  <kerolasa@iki.fi>)
	- manual page corrections (taken from the Debian patches by
	  Paul Martin <pm@debian.org>)

3.7.6 -> 3.7.7
	- dateformat
	- fix possible buffer overflows in strings handling
	- various minor bugfixes
	- change logInfo handling (patches by Leonardo Chiquitto)

3.7.5 -> 3.7.6
	- patches from Leonardo Chiquitto that fix compile warnings
	- examples/logrotate-default: add btmp rotation, dateext
	- update man page
	- tabooext honor wildcards
	- fix selinux support with dateext

3.7.1 -> 3.7.5
	- import Fedora patches
	- add option to use shred for deleting files, patch by
	  Peter Eckersley <pde@eff.org>
	- ignore .cfsaved files
	- bugfixes

3.7 -> 3.7.1:
	- Fix sending mails and running scripts after the 
	  system() -> execve() changes
	- Preserve file attributes when compressing files (original patch
	  by Daniel Himler)

3.6.8 -> 3.7:
	- always use compressext for the extension for compressed
	  files; before compresscmd and compressext had to agree
	- moved all compression to one code block
	- compression, scripts don't use system() anymore
	- compress and maillast didn't work together properly
	- delaycompress and mailfirst didn't work properly
	- don't use system() for mailing (or uncompressing) logs anymore
	- use "-s" for speciying the subjected of mailed logs

3.5.4 -> 3.6:
        - See .spec file for changes

3.5.3 -> 3.5.4:
	- %defattr(-,root,root) in specfile

3.5.2 -> 3.5.3:
        - patch /tmp file race condition problem, use mkstemp;	
	  Thanks go to Solar Designer <solar@openwall.com>

3.5 -> 3.5.2:
	- added .swp and .rpmnew to default taboo list

3.5 -> 3.5.1:
	- handle state dates in the future a bit more sanely

3.4 -> 3.5:
	- multiple file names/patterns may be given for a single entry
	- fixed mistake in when logs were uncompressed before mailing

3.3.2 -> 3.4:
	- added sharedscripts/nosharedscripts
	- added simple testbed
	- quote filenames in state file to allow proper rotation of files
	  with spaces in the name -- this changes the version number of
	  the state file!
	- ignore white space at end of line

3.3.1 -> 3.3.2:
	- don't rotate lastlog

3.3 -> 3.3.1:
	- support gzipped man pages

3.2 -> 3.3:
	- added "mailfirst" and "maillast" flags (based on Tim Wall's patch)
	- documented "extension" flag
	- "rotate 0" gives proper script and mail behavior

3.1 -> 3.2:
	- create wtmp with correct perms

3.0 -> 3.1:
	- fixed small alloca()
	- added missingok flag
	- use popt to display usage message
	- handle /some/file { } in config file

2.9 -> 3.0
	- updates for glibc 2.1

2.8 -> 2.9:
	- fixed a bug parsing lines where { immediately follows the filename
	- allow log file patterns to be placed in double quotes, which	
	  allows spaces in names
	- complain about missing log files (John Van Essen)
	
2.7 -> 2.8:
	- changes for glibc 2.1 (Cristian Gafton)

2.6 -> 2.7:
	- updated man page to include --force (Simon Mudd)
	- invoke scripts via /bin/sh rather then relying on /tmp execute
	  semantics (Philip Guenther)
	- added "extension" option for forcing a file extension after rotation
	  (Rob Hagopian)

2.5 -> 2.6:
	- added nodelaycompress flag (from Jos Vos)
	- added copytruncate, nocopytruncate flag (from Jos Vos)
	- removed umask handling; explicitly use fchmod() insteadmoved umask
	- added --force option (Simon Mudd)
	- moved /bin/mail to MAIL_COMMAND define (Simon Mudd)
	- fixed segv caused by overly long filenames
	- switched from getopt_long to popt

2.4 -> 2.5:
	- set the umask of the process to 0, letting open() create processes
	  with the proper permissions
	- added delaycompress flag (from Jos Vos)
	- fixed how old logs are finally removed when an olddir is specified
	  (Jos Vos)
	- added nomail option
	- added mail, nomail documentation to man page
	- added the tabooext directive
	- fixed problem in globbing

2.3 -> 2.4:
	- glob log names in config file
	- added ,v to taboo list
	- fixed bug w/ create parsing
	- use an int rather then a mode_t when parsing create entries as
	  sscanf requires it

2.2 -> 2.3:
	- fill in all of last rotated structure (this probable isn't
	  really necessary but it's a bit cleaner and will avoid future
	  problems);
	- fixed .spec file

2.1 -> 2.2:
	- If a file is rotated and we have no state information for it,
	  right out the current time.
	- Weekly rotation happens when the current weekday is less then
	  the weekday of the last rotation or more then a week has
	  elapsed between the last rotation and now
	- Monthly rotation happens when the current month is different
	  from the last month or the current year is different from the
	  last year
	- (these were contributed and suggested by Ronald Wahl)
	- added olddir/noolddir options
	- added ifempty/notifempty options
	- ignore nonnormal files when reading config files from a directory
	- (these were suggested and originally implemented by 
	  Henning Schmiedehausen)
	- updated the man page to reflect these changes
	- made "make install" accept PREFIX argument
	- added .spec file to tarball

2.0.2 -> 2.1:
	- Don't output state information for logs that have never been
	  rotated (better then 1900-1-0)
	- Accept 1900-1-0 as time 0
	
2.0.1 -> 2.0.2:
	- I have no idea :-(

2.0 -> 2.0.1:
	- ignore files in included directories which end with ~, .rpmorig, or
	  .rpmsave

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