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 GNU gzip NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
 
-* Noteworthy changes in release ?.? (????-??-??) [?]
+* 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]
+
+
+* Noteworthy changes in release 1.6 (2013-06-09) [stable]
+
+** New features
+
+  gzip now accepts the --keep (-k) option, for consistency with tools
+  like xz, lzip and bzip2.  With this option, gzip no longer removes
+  named input files when compressing or decompressing.
+
+** Bug fixes
+
+  gzip -d no longer malfunctions with certain invalid data in 'pack' format.
+  [bug introduced in gzip-0.8]
+
+  When overwriting, gzip no longer acts as if you typed "y" when you type "n",
+  on some platforms when compiled with optimization.
+  [bug introduced in gzip-1.3.6]
+
+  zgrep no longer malfunctions with a multi-digit context option like -15.
+  Now, it passes that option to grep (equivalent to -C15) just as it does
+  for single-digit options. [bug introduced in gzip-1.3.12]
+
+  zmore now acts more like 'more', and is more portable to POSIXish hosts.
+
+
+* Noteworthy changes in release 1.5 (2012-06-17) [stable]
 
 ** Bug fixes
 
@@ -18,6 +82,10 @@ GNU gzip NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
   For example, now "(printf x|gzip; echo y)|gzip -dcf" prints "xy\n",
   while before it would print "x<compressed data>y\n".
 
+  gzip -rf no longer compresses files more than once (e.g., replacing
+  FOO with FOO.gz.gz) on file systems such as ZFS where a readdir
+  loop that unlinks and creates files can revisit output files.
+
 
 * Noteworthy changes in release 1.4 (2010-01-20) [stable]
 
@@ -229,7 +297,7 @@ Major changes from 1.1.2 to 1.2
 * With --force, let zcat pass non gzip'ed data unchanged (zcat == cat)
 * Added the zgrep shell script.
 * Made sub.c useful for 16 bit sound, 24 bit images, etc..
-* Supress warnings about suffix for gunzip -r, except with --verbose.
+* Suppress warnings about suffix for gunzip -r, except with --verbose.
 * On MSDOS, use .gz extension when possible (files without extension)
 * Moved the sample programs to a subdirectory sample.
 * Added a "Special targets" section in INSTALL.
@@ -402,7 +470,7 @@ Major changes form 0.5 to 0.6:
 
 ========================================================================
 
-Copyright (C) 1999, 2001-2002, 2006-2007, 2009-2012 Free Software Foundation,
+Copyright (C) 1999, 2001-2002, 2006-2007, 2009-2016 Free Software Foundation,
 Inc.
 Copyright (C) 1992, 1993 Jean-loup Gailly