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 PSPP NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
-Time-stamp: <2009-12-05 20:39:07 blp>
-Copyright (C) 1996-9, 2000, 2008, 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright (C) 1996-9, 2000, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 See the end for copying conditions.
 
 Please send PSPP bug reports to bug-gnu-pspp@gnu.org.
 
+Changes from 0.7.3 to 0.7.7:
+
+ * The "pspp" program has a new option --batch (or -b) that selects
+   "batch" syntax mode.  In previous versions of PSPP this syntax mode
+   was the default.  Now a new "auto" syntax mode is the default.  In
+   "auto" mode, PSPP interprets most syntax files correctly regardless
+   of their intended syntax mode.
+
+   See the "Syntax Variants" section in the PSPP manual for more
+   information.
+
+ * The "pspp" program has a new option --syntax-encoding that
+   specifies the encoding for syntax files listed on the command line,
+   as well as the default encoding for syntax files included with
+   INCLUDE or INSERT.  The default is to accept the system locale
+   encoding, UTF-8, UTF-16, or UTF-32, automatically detecting which
+   one the system file uses.
+
+   See the documentation for the INSERT command in the PSPP manual for
+   more information.
+
+ * The INCLUDE and INSERT commands now support the ENCODING subcommand
+   to specify the encoding for the included syntax file.
+
+ * Strings may now include arbitrary Unicode code points specified in
+   hexadecimal, using the syntax U'hhhh'.  For example, Unicode code
+   point U+1D11E, the musical G clef character, may be expressed as
+   U'1D11E'.
+
+   See the "Tokens" section in the PSPP manual for more information.
+
+ * In previous versions of PSPP, in a string expressed in hexadecimal
+   with X'hh' syntax, the hexadecimal digits expressed bytes in the
+   locale encoding.  In this version of PSPP, X'hh' syntax always
+   expresses bytes in UTF-8 encoding.
+
+   See the "Tokens" section in the PSPP manual for more information.
+
+ * The DO REPEAT command has been reimplemented.  The most prominent
+   change is that when a DO REPEAT block contains an INCLUDE or INSERT
+   command, substitutions are not applied to the included file.
+
+   See the "DO REPEAT" section in the PSPP manual for more information.
+
+ * NPAR TESTS now supports the /KRUSKAL-WALLIS and /RUNS subcommands.
+
+ * AUTORECODE now supports the /GROUP subcommand.
+
+ * The MRSETS command is now implemented.
+
+ * SAVE TRANSLATE is now implemented, with initial support for saving
+   data in comma-separated value and tab-delimited formats.
+
+ * The PRESERVE and RESTORE commands are now implemented.
+
+ * The HOST command has been updated to use more modern syntax.
+
+ * The SET and SHOW commands no longer support the ENDCMD, NULLINE,
+   PROMPT, CPROMPT, and DPROMPT subcommands.  The defaults are now the
+   only supported values.
+
 Changes from 0.7.2 to 0.7.3:
 
  * Charts are now produced with Cairo and Pango, instead of libplot.
@@ -12,7 +72,10 @@ Changes from 0.7.2 to 0.7.3:
    not have Cairo and Pango installed, you must run `configure' with
    --without-cairo.
 
- * The PostScript driver has been removed.
+ * The new "cairo" output driver supports output in PostScript, PDF,
+   and SVG formats.  Its functionality is a superset of that of the
+   "postscript" driver, which has been removed.  You must have Cairo
+   and Pango installed to build the "cairo" driver.
 
 Changes from 0.7.1 to 0.7.2: