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 PSPP NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
-Time-stamp: <2008-10-02 20:40:21 blp>
-Copyright (C) 1996-9, 2000, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Time-stamp: <2009-05-24 22:25:04 blp>
+Copyright (C) 1996-9, 2000, 2008, 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 See the end for copying conditions.
 
 Please send PSPP bug reports to bug-gnu-pspp@gnu.org.
 
+Changes from 0.7.1 to 0.7.2:
+
+ * Updated Perl module interface.
+
+ * Value labels for long string variables are now supported.
+
+ * Missing values for long string variables are now supported.
+
+Changes from 0.7.0 to 0.7.1:
+
+ *  Added a perl module to facilitate reading and writing of pspp system 
+    files from perl programs.
+
+Changes from 0.6.1 to 0.7.0:
+
+  * Custom variable and data file attributes are now supported.
+    Commands VARIABLE ATTRIBUTE and DATAFILE ATTRIBUTE have been added
+    for setting and clear attributes.  Support for attributes has also
+    been added to commands that read and write system files, such as
+    SAVE and GET, as well as to the DISPLAY command.
+
 Changes from 0.6.0 to 0.6.1:
 
-  * Bug fixes.  At least the following bugs were fixed:
+  * Statistical bug fixes:
 
     - Report correct standardized regression coefficients in linear
       regression output (bug #23567).
 
-    - Work around bug in GSL that prevented build with recent GCC
-      versions without manually adding -fgnu89-inline to CFLAGS.
-
-    - Make it possible to reopen the output window on Windows (bug
-      #24033).
+  * Bug fixes that affect PSPP and PSPPIRE:
 
     - Avoid crash with pie charts (bug #24014).
 
@@ -29,12 +46,38 @@ Changes from 0.6.0 to 0.6.1:
     - Change default workspace value to 64 MB, to avoid unnecessary
       disk accesses on modern machines.
 
+  * PSPPIRE bug fixes:
+
+    - Add ".sav" or ".por" suffix to filename when saving with Save_As
+      (bug #23137).
+
+    - Make it possible to reopen the output window on Windows (bug
+      #24033).
+
+    - A POSIX regular expression library is now included and used
+      automatically if the host does not have one or has one that is
+      inadequate.
+
+  * Build fixes and changes:
+
+    - Work around bug in GSL that prevented build with recent GCC
+      versions without manually adding -fgnu89-inline to CFLAGS.
+
+    - Also warn about missing prerequisites as we encounter them (bug
+      #24445).
+
     - Distribute necessary files to allow users working from the
       distributed tarball to configure with --enable-gui-tools.
 
-    - Remove poor German translations.
+    - Append $(EXEEXT_FOR_BUILD) to output file name when building
+      q2c, fixing build problems on Windows.
+
+    - GSL 1.8 or later is now required.
+
+    - Build errors with --enable-relocatable were fixed.
 
-  * GSL 1.8 or later is now required.
+  * The German translations were removed, since native German speakers
+    found them too poor to be useful.
 
 Changes from 0.4.0 to 0.6.0: