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 PSPP NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
-Copyright (C) 1996-2000, 2008-2016, 2017, 2019, 2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright (C) 1996-2000, 2008-2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021,
+          2022  Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 See the end for copying conditions.
 
 Please send PSPP bug reports to bug-gnu-pspp@gnu.org.
 
-Changes from 1.4.0 to 1.5.0:
+Changes from 1.4.1 to 1.5.3:
+
+ * In the Kruskal-Wallis test, a misleading result could occur
+   if the lower bound specified by the user was in fact higher
+   than the upper bound specified.  This has been fixed.
+
+ * The DEFINE, MATRIX, MCONVERT, and MATRIX DATA commands are now
+   implemented.
+
+ * An error in the displayed signficance of oneway anova
+   contrasts tests has been corrected.
+
+ * Added Drag-N-Drop in output view.
+
+ * The Explore GUI dialog supports the "Plots" subdialog. Boxplots, Q-Q Plots
+   and Spreadlevel plots are now also available via the GUI.
+
+ * The graphical user interface for importing spreadsheets has been improved.
+   The new interface provides the user with a preview of the data to be imported
+   and interactive methods to select the desired ranges.
+
+ * The user manual, in its Info and HTML versions, now includes
+   graphical output examples and screenshots.
+
+ * Build changes:
+
+   - Perl is no longer required to build.
+
+   - Build now requires Python 3.4 or later.  (Building PSPP 1.4.0
+     also required Python, but it wasn't properly documented at the
+     time.)
+
+   - The Cairo and Pango libraries are now required.
+
+   - gettext 0.20 or later is now required.
+
+ * Output improvements:
+
+   - New drivers for output to TeX source files and to PNG files.
+
+   - Table output styles may now be set with the new option
+     --table-look and the new SET TLOOK command.
+
+   - New driver option "trim" to remove empty space from PDF,
+     PostScript, SVG, and PNG output files.
+
+   - The PDF output driver now adds an outline to allow PDF viewers to display
+     as a "table of contents" for the file.
+
+   - The HTML output driver has a new option "bare".
+
+ * New features in pspp-output:
+
+   - New --table-look and --nth-commands options.
+
+   - New get-table-look and convert-table-look commands.
+
+Changes from 1.4.0 to 1.4.1:
+
+ * Bug fixes.
+
+ * Translation updates.
+
+ * HTML output is now HTML5 instead of HTML4.0 Transitional.
+
+ * The HOST command has been reimplemented.  It now supports TIMELIMIT.
 
 Changes from 1.2.0 to 1.4.0:
 
@@ -14,7 +80,7 @@ Changes from 1.2.0 to 1.4.0:
 
  * The Find dialog box, when searching for numeric values, will match only
    to the precision of the variable's print format.  This avoids behaviour
-   which is suprising to some users.
+   which is surprising to some users.
 
  * PSPP now supports the SPSS viewer (.spv) format that SPSS 16 and later
    use to save the contents of its output editor: