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+Version 2.2:
+
+Bug fix release.
+
+  - Status error number fix.
+  - Skipping directories removed.
+  - Many typos fix.
+  - -f /dev/null fix(not to consider as an empty pattern).
+  - Checks for wctype/wchar.
+  - -E was using the wrong matcher fix.
+  - bug in regex char class fix
+  - Fixes for DJGPP
+
+Version 2.1:
+
+This is a bug fix release(see Changelog) i.e. no new features.
+
+  - More compliance to GNU standard.
+  - Long options.
+  - Internationalisation.
+  - Use automake/autoconf.
+  - Directory hierarchy change.
+  - Sigvec with -e on Linux corrected.
+  - Sigvec with -f on Linux corrected.
+  - Sigvec with the mmap() corrected.
+  - Bug in kwset corrected.
+  - -q, -L and -l stop on first match.
+  - New and improve regex.[ch] from Ulrich Drepper.
+  - New and improve dfa.[ch] from Arnold Robbins.
+  - Prototypes for over zealous C compiler.
+  - Not scanning a file, if it's a directory
+    (cause problems on Sun).
+  - Ported to MS-DOS/MS-Windows with DJGPP tools.
+
+See Changelog for the full story and proper credits.
+
+Version 2.0:
+
+The most important user visible change is that egrep and fgrep have
+disappeared as separate programs into the single grep program mandated
+by POSIX 1003.2.  New options -G, -E, and -F have been added,
+selecting grep, egrep, and fgrep behavior respectively.  For
+compatibility with historical practice, hard links named egrep and
+fgrep are also provided.  See the manual page for details.
+
+In addition, the regular expression facilities described in Posix
+draft 11.2 are now supported, except for internationalization features
+related to locale-dependent collating sequence information.
+
+There is a new option, -L, which is like -l except it lists
+files which don't contain matches.  The reason this option was
+added is because '-l -v' doesn't do what you expect.
+
+Performance has been improved; the amount of improvement is platform
+dependent, but (for example) grep 2.0 typically runs at least 30% faster
+than grep 1.6 on a DECstation using the MIPS compiler.  Where possible,
+grep now uses mmap() for file input; on a Sun 4 running SunOS 4.1 this
+may cut system time by as much as half, for a total reduction in running
+time by nearly 50%.  On machines that don't use mmap(), the buffering
+code has been rewritten to choose more favorable alignments and buffer
+sizes for read().
+
+Portability has been substantially cleaned up, and an automatic
+configure script is now provided.
+
+The internals have changed in ways too numerous to mention.
+People brave enough to reuse the DFA matcher in other programs
+will now have their bravery amply "rewarded", for the interface
+to that file has been completely changed.  Some changes were
+necessary to track the evolution of the regex package, and since
+I was changing it anyway I decided to do a general cleanup.