+<sect id="3.9.5.0"> Version 3.9.5.0
+<p>
+
+Released October, 2013.
+
+</p><p><taglist>
+<tag>5.1</tag>
+ <item>Control data fields must not start with the hyphen character
+ (<tt>-</tt>), to avoid potential confusions when parsing clearsigned control
+ data files that were not properly unescaped.
+ </item>
+<tag>5.4, 5.6.24</tag>
+ <item><tt>Checksums-Sha1</tt> and <tt>Checksums-Sha256</tt> are now
+ mandatory in <file>.dsc</file> files.
+ </item>
+<tag>5.6.25, 5.8.1</tag>
+ <item>The <tt>DM-Upload-Allowed</tt> field is obsolete. Permissions
+ are now granted via <em>dak-commands</em> files.
+<tag>5.6.27</tag>
+ <item>New section documenting the <tt>Package-List</tt> field in Debian
+ source control files.
+ </item>
+<tag>5.6.28</tag>
+ <item>New section documenting the <tt>Package-Type</tt> field in source
+ package control files.
+ </item>
+<tag>5.6.29</tag>
+ <item>New section documenting the <tt>Dgit</tt> field in Debian
+ source control files.
+ </item>
+<tag>9.1.1.8</tag>
+ <item>The exception to the FHS for the <file>/selinux</file> was removed.
+ </item>
+<tag>10.7.3</tag>
+ <item>Packages should remove all obsolete configuration files without
+ local changes during upgrades. The <prgn>dpkg-maintscript-helper</prgn>
+ tool, available from the <package>dpkg</package> package since
+ <em>Wheezy</em>, can help with this.
+ </item>
+<tag>10.10</tag>
+ <item>The name of the files and directories installed by binary packages
+ must be encoded in UTF-8 and should be restricted to ASCII when possible.
+ In the system PATH, they must be restricted to ASCII.
+ </item>
+<tag>11.5.2</tag>
+ <item>Stop recommending to serve HTML documents from
+ <file>/usr/share/doc/<var>package</var></file>.
+ </item>
+<tag>12.2</tag>
+ <item>Packages distributing Info documents should use
+ <package>install-info</package>'s trigger, and do not need anymore
+ to depend on <tt>dpkg (>= 1.15.4) | install-info</tt>.
+ </item>
+<tag>debconf</tag>
+ <item>The <tt>escape</tt> capability is now documented.
+ </item>
+<tag>virtual</tag>
+ <item><tt>mp3-decoder</tt> and <tt>mp3-encoder</tt> are removed.</item>
+</taglist></p>
+
+<sect id="3.9.4.0"> Version 3.9.4.0
+<p>
+
+Released August, 2012.
+
+</p><p><taglist>
+<tag>2.4</tag>
+ <item>New <em>tasks</em> archive section.
+ </item>
+<tag>4.9</tag>
+ <item><tt>build-arch</tt> and <tt>build-indep</tt> are now mandatory
+ targets in <file>debian/rules</file>.
+ </item>
+<tag>5.6.26</tag>
+ <item>New section documenting the <tt>Vcs-*</tt> fields, which are
+ already in widespread use. Note the mechanism for specifying the Git
+ branch used for packaging in the Vcs-Git field.
+ </item>
+<tag>7.1</tag>
+ <item>The deprecated relations < and > now must not be used.
+ </item>
+<tag>7.8</tag>
+ <item>New <tt>Built-Using</tt> field, which must be used to document the
+ source packages for any binaries that are incorporated into this package
+ at build time. This is used to ensure that the archive meets license
+ requirements for providing source for all binaries.
+ </item>
+<tag>8.6</tag>
+ <item>Policy for dependencies between shared libraries and other
+ packages has been largely rewritten to document the <tt>symbols</tt>
+ system and more clearly document handling of shared library ABI
+ changes. <file>symbols</file> files are now recommended
+ over <file>shlibs</file> files in most situations. All maintainers of
+ shared library packages should review the entirety of this section.
+ </item>
+<tag>9.1.1</tag>
+ <item>Packages must not assume the <file>/run</file> directory exists or
+ is usable without a dependency on <tt>initscripts (>= 2.88dsf-13.3)</tt>
+ until the stable release of Debian supports <file>/run</file>.
+ </item>
+<tag>9.7</tag>
+ <item>Packages including MIME configuration can now rely on triggers and
+ do not need to call update-mime.</item>
+<tag>9.11</tag>
+ <item>New section documenting general requirements for alternate init
+ systems and specific requirements for integrating with upstart.
+ </item>
+<tag>12.5</tag>
+ <item>All copyright files must be encoded in UTF-8.
+ </item>
+</taglist></p>
+
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