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+=============
+Release notes
+=============
+August 27, 2016
+    Version 0.29 is out
+
+    Test suite for regression testing is ready,
+        with about 1000 m-scripts.  Scripts are translated
+        to python, then the resulting py-files are loaded,
+        but not yet run.
+
+
+August 11, 2016
+    Version 0.28 is out. 
+
+    Line numbering information is included in the output.
+        Enabled by default.  Disabled with ``--no-numbers``.
+
+    Block comments are preserved now.
+        Lines, containing anything but a comment, are
+        preserved. Enabled by default.
+        Disabled with ``--no-comments``.
+
+    New command-line options
+        ``--no-resolve,--no-backend`` useful mostly for
+        debugging. New shortcuts -R -B -T -C -N
+
+    Special ``%!`` comments are partially supported now.
+        They are mostly useful in testing, and
+        are used by Octave library and test suite. Disabled
+        by default. Enabled with ``--testing-mode``.
+
+
+June 19,2016
+   After a year-long vacation I am back to active development.
+   My first goal is adopting the Octave runtime and test suite.
+
+October 23, 2014
+   Downloaded ``mybench`` -- a collection of 20 or so
+   micro-benchmarks originally meant to compare matlab and
+   octave performance.  After succesfully running the first nine,
+   the geometric mean of the speedup is 0.36,  which is cool.
+
+    ==   ========   ======    ===========    =======
+    //   name       octave    smop           speedup
+    ==   ========   ======    ===========    =======
+    1    rand       2.58      0.36           0.14
+    2    randn      2.26      1.04           0.46
+    3    primes     0.35      0.17           0.49
+    4    fft2       2.75      1.13           0.41
+    5    square     4.24      0              
+    6    inv        4.38      2.26           0.53
+    7    eig        17.95     9.09           0.51
+    8    qr         3.06      1.83           0.60
+    9    shur       5.98      2.31           0.39
+    10   roots      8.31      2.02           0.24
+    ==   ========   ======    ===========    =======
+
+October 15, 2014
+   Version 0.26.3 is available for beta testing.
+   Next version 0.27 is planned to compile octave
+   ``scripts`` library, which contains over 120 KLOC in
+   almost 1,000 matlab files. There  are 13 compilation
+   errors with smop 0.26.3 .
+