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+Version 1.24 - 20 May 2011, by tmb
+
+- devices.pl: call mknod directly
+- list.xml: add btrfs tools to the image
+- list.xml: fix XSLoader path
+
+Version 1.23 - 06 April 2011, by Dmorgan
+
+- Fix function names ( Bug #651 )
+
+Version 1.22 - 24 February 2011, by Pascal "pterjan" Terjan
+
+- cleaning for Mageia import
+- include /etc/netconfig (needed by mount.nfs)
+
+Version 1.18 - 13 April 2010, by Olivier "blino" Blin
+
+- image restore script: use blkid instead of deprecated vol_id
+
+Version 1.17 - 12 April 2010, by Olivier "blino" Blin
+
+- Handle LVM (#44723)
+- image restore script: handle hybrid images (by matching main device)
+
+Version 1.16 - 9 October 2009, by Olivier "blino" Blin
+
+- work both with squashfs 3 and 4
+- image restore script (from Paulo Ricardo Zanoni):
+  o re-read partition table after writing image
+  o do not extend / to the end of the disk, it overlaps with swap
+    partition
+- do not make de-latin1 keymap a symlink/include loop (#45109)
+- use extipl from /usr/lib/extipl on x86_64 too
+  (to fix restore_ms_boot, hardcoding this path)
+
+Version 1.15 - 3 September 2009, by Thierry Vignaud
+
+- add back dumpe2fs
+- run /oem-rescue.sh if oem option is present on cmdline
+- allow to specify main partition in the restore config file
+  (MAIN_PART_NUMBER), if there is a restore partition at beginning of
+  disk
+- load ext4 module (#48816)
+- use blkid instead of vol_id which we no longer ship
+
+Version 1.14 - 27 May 2009, by Olivier "blino" Blin
+
+- adapt to new extipl location in x86_64
+- adapt to new magic.mgc location
+
+Version 1.13 - 27 May 2009, by Olivier "blino" Blin
+
+- include various commands
+- image restore script:
+  o better estimate of image dump progression
+  o fix detecting multiple partitions to avoid win32 detection
+  o fix guessing extension when filename contains a dot
+
+Version 1.12 - 20 February 2009, by Olivier "blino" Blin
+
+- image restore script:
+  o add swap partition
+  o use a minimum size for disks to be detected (Caio)
+  o resize Windows partitions if needed (Caio)
+- Flash rescue:
+  o add support for Flash 2009
+  o try to load squashfs-lzma too
+  o handle path to lzma distrib loopbacks
+- fix build:
+  o do not include dead parsehdlist
+  o do not include dead rpm helpers
+
+Version 1.11 - 25 September 2008, by Olivier "blino" Blin
+
+- add image restoration scripts ("restore" command line parameter)
+
+Version 1.10 - 25 April 2008, by Olivier "blino" Blin
+
+- fix "Mounting other partitions from fstab" which use UUID=xxx
+- fix build with latest file package, which only includes the
+  precompiled magic file
+
+Version 1.9 - 10 March 2008, by Olivier "blino" Blin
+
+- handle ntfs-3g in fstab
+- add missing modalias files (#38690)
+
+Version 1.8 - 28 February 2008, by Olivier "blino" Blin
+
+- support new modules location (#38207)
+- adapt to perl 5.10
+- fix build (fix a workaround in partimage_whole_disk)
+
+Version 1.7 - 25 September 2007, by Pascal "Pixel" Rigaux
+
+- add mount.nfs binary (since mount doesn't handle nfs fs anymore)
+
+Version 1.6 - 8 August 2007, by Pascal "Pixel" Rigaux
+
+- adapt to new libldetect together with drakx-installer-images 1.13
+- loadkeys file:
+  o handle new "kbd" rpm which have .map files instead of .kmap
+  o don't skip fr_CH-latin1
+  o handle "fr_CH"-like short names
+- remove rescuept (use testdisk instead, which is much nicer)
+
+Version 1.5 - 9 July 2007, by Pascal "Pixel" Rigaux
+
+- add /etc/mke2fs.conf in order to format ext3fs with 4k blocks (#27377)
+- add "mkfs.ext3" which is no more equivalent to "mkfs.ext2 -J"
+  (eg: dir_index & resize_inode features)
+
+Version 1.4 - 4 April 2007, by Pascal "Pixel" Rigaux
+
+- zcat and gunzip can't be symlinks anymore, they are scripts