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+Version 1.7.0
+
+* Rune Nordbře Skillingstad fixed Unicode-3.2 bug
+
+* Added debug information and improved regression test 
+  information level
+
+* Re-wrote manual pages for clarity and content
+
+Version 1.6.0
+
+* Upgrade to Unicode-3.2.0
+
+Version 1.5.0
+
+* Better detection of the iconv library, using the AM_ICONV
+  macro of Bruno Haible.
+
+* Upgrade autotools files
+
+* Minor documentation upgrades.
+
+Version 1.4.0
+
+* When unac_string finds an illegal sequence while converting,
+  it replaces it with a space. For instance 1/4 ISO-8859-1 character
+  is converted to 1 4 (one space four) because the fraction character
+  does not exist in ISO-8859-1.
+
+* The new unac_version function returns the version number.
+
+Version 1.3.0
+
+* Add support for systems that do not have UTF-16BE defined
+  but only UTF-16 being implicitly big endian. It means that
+  it will work with both glibc-2.1.3 and glibc-2.1.94.
+
+* Fix occasional allocation bug
+
+* Allocate returned buffer even if an empty string is given
+  in input.
+
+* Add more regression tests
+
+Version 1.2.0
+
+* Fix endianess problem that shows on RedHat-7.0
+
+* Fix prototype mistake (int used where size_t required)
+
+Version 1.1.0
+
+* Fix error handling bug
+
+* Recommend alternative iconv implementation for Solaris-2.6
+
+Version 1.0.0
+