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Version 1.40		May 28, 2011

  * Update texinfo docs.
  * Document --libtool option.
  * Allow date format to be localised.
  * Add Japanese translation.

Version 1.39		March 8, 2011

  * Add --libtool option to remove `lt-' prefix for libtool programs.
  * Add Ukranian translation.
  * Add Esperanto translation.

Version 1.38		April 26, 2010

  * Support ENVIRONMENT and FILES sections.
  * Move all translated text into .po files (previously .h2m include
    files were handled seperately).
  * Submit package to the Translation Project (translationproject.org).
  * Add Vietnamese translation.
  * Add some comments for translators.

Version 1.37		November 14, 2009

  * Update GPL to v3.
  * Add --version-string option.
  * Add --no-discard-stderr option.
  * Add line breaks into bug reporting section.
  * Add Brazilian Portuguese and German translations.
  * Select a reasonable configure default for --enable-nls.
  * Revise preload mechanism to not require preloadable libintl.

Version 1.36		October 17, 2005

  * Add default territory to --locale option.
  * Add Finnish translations.

Version 1.35		November 25, 2004

  * Set program name to the first word of NAME paragraph in --include
    file if given.

Version 1.34		November 20, 2004

  * Escape all unescaped hyphens in output.
  * Convert parenthesised options, eg (-F).
  * Fix info section in SEE ALSO to use $program rather than
    $info_page when referring to the program.

Version 1.33		July 18, 2003

  * Add Polish translations.
  * Support for localised "Usage:" output.
  * configure: add --disable-nls option; verify gettext support.

Version 1.32		July 10, 2003

 * Set modification time on generated help2man script so that generation
   of man pages is dependent only on changes to the source help2man.PL
   script.

Version 1.31		July 9, 2003

 * Check for errors writing to output page.

Version 1.30		July 9, 2003

 * Support for localised manual pages has been added (--locale option).

Version 1.29		September 7, 2002

 * Change info category to "GNU programming support".

Version 1.28		June 4, 2002

 * Add --info-page option.

Version 1.27		March 19, 2002

 * Allow short and long options to be separated by multiple spaces
   rather than a comma.

Version 1.26		March 9, 2002

 * Documentation updates giving suggested --help output.

Version 1.25		December 3, 2001

 * New --source and --manual options to allow the page headers and
   footers to be specified.

 * New --help-option and --version-option options to cater for programs
   which don't support the standard --help and --version.

Version 1.24		December 22, 2000

 * Allow options to be specified in the initial block of include files.

Version 1.23		October 31, 2000

 * Escape leading apostrophes.

Version 1.022		July 7, 2000

 * help2man is now officially a GNU program.  Add bug reporting
   address and `GNU' prefix.

 * configure now checks for `perl5' as well as `perl'.

Version 1.021		April 16, 2000

 * Create directories if required (Makefile).

Version 1.020		December 30, 1999

 * Remove directory from command name(s) in synopsis.

Version 1.019		November 3, 1999

 * Sadly, 2+ spaces *are* required to unambiguously separate options
   from descriptions.

Version 1.018		November 1, 1999

 * Recognise additional synopsis lines without requiring `or:' prefix.
 * Adjust option tagged paragraph matching so that the first option
   argument does not require an `='.

Version 1.017		October 27, 1999

 * Allow --include to be used multiple times.
 * Include files may now contain `/pattern/' which will append the text
   following to any paragraph which matches the pattern.

Version 1.016		October 25, 1999

 * Handle indenting/continuation of things which look like options
   separately.  This removes the requirement for 2+ spaces between
   option and description, allows the description to occur on the line
   below the option and relaxes the indent matching rules for continued
   lines.