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-pl 0.jcn1
-       - gcc-2.95 nitpicks
-       - added pointers to mailing lists in toplevel docs
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+WHAT'S NEW SINCE 1.2.0
+
+* Much faster spacing engine. 
+
+* Features: automatic staff switching
+
+* Documentation now all is in texinfo.
+
+
+WHAT'S NEW SINCE 1.0.17
+
+* Large cleanups, enhanced design and GUILE integration for smaller
+  memory footprint and more flexible code.
+
+* Direct output to PostScript (optional), PDFTeX or as GUILE script
+  (default output still to plain TeX).
+
+* Convertors for ABC and MUP formats.
+
+* Font: now available as scalable PostScript.  New glyphs: time
+  signature, more note heads.
+
+* Enhanced input: semi-automatic beaming, (nested) tuplets, (nested)
+  repeats, chordnames, automatic Lyrics durations.
+  
+* Grace notes, volta brackets, multiple styles for note heads and 
+  time signatures, breathing signs, lyric extenders, cross staff 
+  beaming and slurring.
+  
+* --safe option for the paranoid.
+
+* More elegant spacing.  Text is spaced exactly.
+
+* Lots of bugfixes.