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 NOTE: NO BACKWARD COMPATIBILITY IS GUARANTEED FOR 0.x RELEASES !!
 
-release 0.17 (??):
+release 0.18 (NOT RELEASED YET):
+
+ - The library should now be portable, i.e it should work on any POSIX system.
+   On systems lacking glibc, libiconv is needed (see README).
+
+ - A lot of new features (see documentation):
+     - callback interface:
+        - functions to manipulate cross-references (add, delete, link and
+          unlink)
+        - functions to manipulate dates (strings to numbers and vice versa,
+          conversion between calendars, ...)
+        - support for writing Gedcom files
+        - complete concatenated text (e.g. for notes) is now passed in the
+          end callback
+     - C object model interface:
+        - functions for string retrieval and modification
+        - support for writing Gedcom files
+     - development support:
+        - m4 macro that can be used in configure.in
+
+ - The library now comes with an extra shared library (libutf8tools),
+   which needs to be linked in in any programs that use the gedcom parser
+   library (you can use the script 'gedcom-config' to generate link and
+   include flags).  You can use utf8tools in totally unrelated programs too.
+
+ - INTERFACE CHANGE: the end record callback function now takes an extra
+   argument (similar to the end element callback): a Gedcom_val, which
+   contains in the case of a REC_NOTE the complete concatenated string.
+
+ - INTERFACE CHANGE: the return value of gedcom_init() has changed from
+   void to int to be able to return a status.
+
+ - Various bugfixes.
+
+release 0.17 (12 September 2002):
 
  - New features (see documentation):
-     - function gedcom_get_by_xref
+     - new function gedcom_get_by_xref
+     - age values are parsed
+     - gedcom object model in C
 
  - INTERFACE CHANGE: the callback functions now take an extra argument: the
    record/element identifier (that is also used as first argument in the