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-version 1.32, 2018/08/08 14:47:38
+version 1.34, 2019/03/10 09:32:00
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  This file lists the most important changes in the mandoc.bsd.lv distribution.
+ Changes in version 1.14.5, released on March 10, 2019
+     --- MAJOR NEW FEATURES ---
+  * apropos(1): improve POSIX compliance by accepting case-insensitive
+    extended regular expressions by default
+  * new -O tag[=term] output option (open a page at the definition of a term)
+  * tbl(7) -T html: spanning and horizontal and vertical alignment of cells
+  * tbl(7) -T html: draw lines on the edges of table cells
+  * tbl(7) -T utf8: render lines with the Unicode box drawing characters
+  * mandoc is now able to handle the manual pages of the groff package.
+     --- MINOR NEW FEATURES ---
+  * -T html: new option -O toc (table of contents)
+  * -T html: second argument to -O man to support local and remote links
+  * mdoc(7) .Bd -centered now fills the text contained in it
+  * man-ext .SY and .YS macros (synopsis block)
+  * man-ext .TQ macro (tagged paragraph without vertical space before it)
+  * tbl(7) \& explicit alignment indicator
+  * roff(7) .shift, .while, and .return requests
+  * roff(7) .char request (output glyph definition)
+  * roff(7) .nop request (no operation)
+  * roff(7) .ft request: handle the CB, CI, and CR fonts
+  * roff(7) .if c conditional (character available)
+  * roff(7) \\$@ escape sequence (insert all macro arguments, quoted)
+  * roff(7) \*(.T predefined string (interpolate output device name)
+  * roff(7) \[charNNN] escape sequence (for printable ASCII characters)
+  * roff(7) \# escape sequence (line continuation with comment)
+     --- HTML OUTPUT SYNTAX CORRECTIONS ---
+  * Render .br and \p as <br/>, not as an empty <div>.
+  * Render .Pp and .PP as <p> and automatically close it when needed.
+  * Stop writing empty list elements for non-compact .Bl -tag lists.
+  * Do not put <p> inside <a> if .UR or .MT contain .PP.
+  * Implement tooltips purely in CSS rather than abusing title= attributes.
+     --- MINOR FUNCTIONAL IMPROVEMENTS ---
+  * many improvements to the handling of fill and no-fill mode
+  * tbl(7): better column widths in the presence of horizontal spans
+  * several minor improvements to escape sequence handling
+  * several minor improvements to manual font handling
+  * portability: autodetect need for _GNU_SOURCE or _OPENBSD_SOURCE
+  * portability: autodetect whether less(1) supports the -T option
+  * large numbers of bugfixes of diverse kinds
+     --- STRUCTURAL IMPROVEMENTS ---
+  * Disentangle eqn(7) and tbl(7) from other parser header files,
+    and clean up some parser data structures.
+  * Substantially simplify error and warning message infrastructure.
+     --- THANKS TO ---
+  * John Gardner for crucial help implementing tooltips in CSS.
+  * Alexander Bluhm, Raphael Graf, Ted Unangst (OpenBSD)
+    and Daniel Sabogal (Alpine Linux) for patches.
+  * Anthony Bentley and Jason McIntyre (OpenBSD) for documentation patches,
+    suggesting new features, bug reports, and useful discussions.
+  * Kyle Evans and Baptiste Daroussin (FreeBSD) for minor patches.
+  * Pali Rohar for suggesting multiple new features and for reporting
+    several bugs and missing features.
+  * Klemens Nanni (OpenBSD) for suggesting multiple new features.
+  * Kristaps Dzonsons (bsd.lv), Marc Espie (OpenBSD), Adam Kalisz,
+    and Laura Morales for suggesting new features.
+  * Wolfram Schneider and Yuri Pankov (FreeBSD) for reporting missing features.
+  * Edward Tomasz Napierala (FreeBSD) for suggesting a feature improvement.
+  * Thomas Klausner (NetBSD) and Sevan Janiyan (SmartOS)
+    for bug reports and release testing.
+  * Bryan Steele, Janne Johansson, Kurt Mosiejczuk, Mike Belopuhov, Theo
+    Buehler, Todd Miller (OpenBSD), Andreas Gustafsson, Christos Zoulas,
+    Robert Elz (NetBSD), Kurt Jaeger (FreeBSD), Fabio Scotoni, Kelvin
+    Sherlock, Mark Harris, Orestis Ioannou, Raf Czlonka, and Sean Farrell
+    for bug reports.
+  * Ulrich Spoerlein (FreeBSD), Leah Neukirchen (Void Linux),
+    Matej Cepl (openSUSE), and Jan Stary (MacOS X) for release testing.
+  * Brian Callahan and Stuart Henderson (OpenBSD) for help
+    with the OpenBSD groff port.
+  * Bertrand Garrigues, Branden Robinson, Ralph Corderoy, and Werner
+    Lemberg (GNU troff) for checking groff patches.
+  * Scott Cheloha, Theo de Raadt (OpenBSD)
+    and Natanael Copa (Alpine Linux) for useful discussions.
  Changes in version 1.14.4, released on August 8, 2018
      --- MAJOR NEW FEATURES ---

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