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+Version 0.7.8, 2002-02-28
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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+* More capabilities for Pipe, inspired by SysV STREAMS, including peeking,
+ better buffering, and stack ops. NOT BACKWARDS COMPATIBLE: SEE DOCUMENTATION
+* Added a BufferingFilter class
+* Added popen() based EntropySource for generic Unix systems (unix_rnd)
+* Moved 'devrand' module into main distribution (ent_file.h), renamed to
+ File_EntropySource, and changed interface somewhat.
+* Made Randpool somewhat more conservative and also 25% faster
+* Minor fixes and updates for the configure script
+* Added some tweaks for memory allocation
+* Documentation updates for the new Pipe interface
+* Fixed various minor bugs
+* Added a couple of new example programs (stack and hasher2)
+