+* Noteworthy changes in release 1.8 (2016-04-26) [stable]
+
+** Bug fixes
+
+ gzip -l no longer falsely reports a write error when writing to a pipe.
+ [bug introduced in gzip-1.7]
+
+ Port to Oracle Solaris Studio 12 on x86-64.
+ [bug present since at least gzip-1.2.4]
+
+ When configuring gzip, ./configure DEFS='...-DNO_ASM...' now
+ suppresses assembler again. [bug introduced in gzip-1.3.5]
+
+
+* Noteworthy changes in release 1.7 (2016-03-27) [stable]
+
+** Changes in behavior
+
+ The GZIP environment variable is now obsolescent; gzip now warns if
+ it is used, and rejects attempts to use dangerous options or operands.
+ You can use an alias or script instead.
+
+ Installed programs like 'zgrep' now use the PATH environment variable
+ as usual to find subsidiary programs like 'gzip' and 'grep'.
+ Previously they prepended the installation directory to the PATH,
+ which sometimes caused 'make check' to test the wrong gzip executable.
+ [bug introduced in gzip-1.3.13]
+
+** New features
+
+ gzip now accepts the --synchronous option, which causes it to use
+ fsync and similar primitives to transfer output data to the output
+ file's storage device when the file system supports this. Although
+ this option makes gzip safer in the presence of system crashes, it
+ can make gzip considerably slower.
+
+ gzip now accepts the --rsyncable option. This option is accepted in
+ all modes, but has effect only when compressing: it makes the resulting
+ output more amenable to efficient use of rsync. For example, when a
+ large input file gets a small change, a gzip --rsyncable image of
+ that file will remain largely unchanged, too. Without --rsyncable,
+ even a tiny change in the input could result in a totally different
+ gzip-compressed output file.
+
+** Bug fixes
+
+ gzip -k -v no longer reports that files are replaced.
+ [bug present since the beginning]
+
+ zgrep -f A B C no longer reads A more than once if A is not a regular file.
+ This better supports invocations like 'zgrep -f <(COMMAND) B C' in Bash.
+ [bug introduced in gzip-1.2]
+
+