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+Changes from 3.1.3 to 3.1.4
+---------------------------
+
+1. Gawk now supports the POSIX %F format, falling back to %f if the local
+   system printf doesn't handle it.
+
+2. Gawk now supports the ' flag in printf. E.g., %'d in a locale with thousands
+   separators includes the thousands separator in the value, e.g. 12,345.
+
+   This has one problem; the ' flag is next to impossible to use on the
+   command line, without major quoting games.  Oh well, TANSTAAFL.
+
+3. The dfa code has been reinstated; the performance degradation was
+   just too awful.  Sigh.  (For fun, use `export GAWK_NO_DFA=1' to
+   see the difference.)
+
+4. The special case `x = x y' is now recognized in the grammar, and gawk
+   now uses `realloc' to append the new value to the end of the existing
+   one.  This can speed up the common case of appending onto a string.
+
+5. The dfa code was upgraded with most of the fixes from grep 2.5.1, and
+   the regex code was upgraded with GLIBC as mid-January 2004.  The regex
+   code is faster than it was, but still not as fast as the dfa code, so
+   the dfa code stays in.  The getopt code was also synced to current GLIBC.
+
+6. Support code upgraded to Automake 1.8.5, Autoconf 2.59, and gettext 0.14.1.
+
+7. When --posix is in effect, sub/gsub now follow the 2001 POSIX behavior.
+   Yippee.  This is even documented in the manual.
+
+8. Gawk will now recover children that have died (input pipelines, two-way
+   pipes), upon detecting EOF from them, thus avoiding filling
+   up the process table.  Open file descriptors are not recovered
+   (unfortunately), since that could break awk semantics.  See the
+   ChangeLog and the source code for the details.
+
+9. Handling of numbers like `0,1' in non-American locales ought to
+   work correctly now.
+
+10. IGNORECASE is now locale-aware for characters with values above 128.
+    The dfa matcher is now used for IGNORECASE matches too.
+
+11. Dynamic function loading is better. The documentation has been improved
+    and some new APIs for use by dynamic functions have been added.
+
+12. Gawk now has a fighting chance of working on older systems,
+    a la SunOS 4.1.x.
+
+13. Issues with multibyte support on HP-UX are now resolved. `configure' now
+    disables such support there, since it's not up to what gawk needs.
+
+14. There are now even more tests in the test suite.
+
+15. Various bugs fixed; see ChangeLog for the details.
+
 Changes from 3.1.2 to 3.1.3
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