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+CHANGES from 1.8.2 to 1.8.3
+  1.  Various configure related changes and additional updates.
+
+CHANGES from 1.8.1 to 1.8.2
+  1.  Allow `NEWDB'-opened databases to actually, well, store records.
+
+CHANGES from 1.8 to 1.8.1
+  1.  Lots of bug fixes, including a data corruption bug.
+  2.  Updated to current autoconf and libtool.
+  3.  Moved the dbm/ndbm compatibility routines to libgdbm_compat.
+
+CHANGES from 1.7.3 to 1.8
+  1.  Added GDBM_CENTFREE functionality and option.
+  2.  Added GDBM_COALESCEBLKS functionality and option.
+  3.  Added GDBM_NOLOCK flag.
+  4.  Made ``fast'' mode the default, making GDBM_FAST obsolete, and adding
+      the GDBM_SYNC flag and GDBM_SYNCMODE option.
+  5.  Switched to building with libtool.
+
+CHANGES from 1.7.2 to 1.7.3
+  1.  Fixed a couple of last minute problems. (Namely, no autoconf.h in
+      version.c, and no GDBM_FASTMODE in gdbm.h!)
+  2.  Fixed some documentation bugs.
+
+CHANGES from 1.7.1 to 1.7.2
+  1.  Enhanced portability and compile/installation changes.
+  2.  Additional, "fast mode" related gdbm_setopt() option.
+  3.  Growth problems bug fix.
+
+CHANGES from 1.7 to 1.7.1
+  1.  Enhanced portabilty and compile/installation bug fixes.
+  2.  Switched over to using an auto config header.
+  2.  Slight documentation upgrade.
+
+CHANGES from 1.6 to 1.7
+  1.  A new dynamic, delayed initialization, bucket cache.
+  2.  New gdbm_setopt(), gdbm_exists(), and gdbm_strerror() routines.
+  3.  Slightly improved dbm/ndbm compatibility.
+  4.  Greatly improved portability to 64 or 16 bit machines.
+  5.  Various bug fixes.
+
+CHANGES from 1.5 to 1.6
+  1.  New documentation in both man and texinfo formats.
+  2.  Bug fixes.
+  3.  A New "writers" mode that does not fsync the database.
+  4.  Uses Autoconf now.
+
+CHANGES from 1.4 to 1.5:
+  1.  Minor bug fixes.  See the ChangeLog.
+  2.  Added gdbmconst.h to allow users to change the size of the
+      bucket cache in the systems.h file.
+
+CHANGES from 1.0 to 1.4:
+  1.  Mainly bug fixes.
+  2.  A define for "dbmclose()" was added to dbm.h for those few 
+      implementaions that need that call.
+  3.  For details, see the ChangeLog.
+
+CHANGES from 0.9 to 1.0:
+  1.  Makefiles were combined into one and a few new things added to it.
+  2.  Several minor bugs were fixed including a cache bug.
+  3.  Two new calls (dbm_pagfno, dbm_dirfno) were added to the NDBM interface.
+  3.  A conversion program from dbm files to gdbm files was added.
+  4.  Reorganize was changed to allow complex file names. (dir/file form)
+  5.  testgdbm, testndbm, and testdbm were modified to return key and data
+      pairs where needed and to take an optional file name as an argument.
+      testgdbm had some command characters changed.
+  6.  The DBM and NDBM interfaces were separated.
+  7.  An include file for dbm users was added. (dbm.h)
+  8.  The include file for ndbm users was renamed ndbm.h. (It was gndbm.h.)
+
+CHANGES from 0.8 to 0.9:
+  1.  The hash function changed.
+  2.  The file format changed.
+  3.  There was a complete rewrite of falloc.c.
+  4.  There were added compatiblity routines for ndbm.
+  5.  The file names for dbm compatibility routines were made to
+      look like dbm.
+  6.  Test programs changed.
+  7.  Support for System V.
+  8.  Various other small changes.
+  9.  The need for recovery and associated code was removed.