version 1.0.35:  2016-02-29

  Extra checks to ensure proper recompressor behavior regardless of
  installation environment.  Change to lbzip2 for parallel engine inside
  to-bzip2.

version 1.0.34:  2015-11-14

  Added options to use multi-threaded compressors inside to-gzip, to-bzip,
  to-lzip, to-lzma, and to-xz recompression utilities, per Sourceforge user
  Lazy Kent suggestion.

  BUGFIX!  The -b and -c options in wipe-free were being ignored.  This has now
  been fixed.

version 1.0.33:  2015-03-27

  Added rarfile-handling and timestamp-preserving functionality to all to-*
  archive conversion scripts, compliments of a patch by Sourgeforge user D.
  Gloger.  This includes the new rar2tarcat utility.

version 1.0.32:  2014-08-08

  Added zipfile-handling and timestamp-preserving functionality to all to-*
  archive conversion scripts, compliments of a patch by Sourgeforge user D.
  Gloger.  This includes the new zip2tarcat utility.

  Fixed a portability fix for OS X, based on a patch by Sourgeforge user Zeese
  Blevens.

version 1.0.31:  2014-02-07

  Numerous resyncs with upstream, plus a few manpage tweaks.  No actual change
  in functionality.

version 1.0.30:  2013-12-08

  Added new littleutil opt-pdf, intended to make PDF files smaller and/or more
  correct.

  Added lzma conversion capability to to-xz and to-lzip, based on a patch from
  SourgeForge user D. Gloger.

version 1.0.29:  2013-06-26

  Finally added cmp-based paranoia check to repeats.

version 1.0.28:  2013-06-02

  Replace needless double-quotes with single-quotes throughout shell scripts
  for improved performance.

  Minor portability fixes for PNG-associated programs.

version 1.0.27:  2012-12-04

  Numerous documentation tweaks.

  Replace "bash" with "dash" in most shell scripts for improved performance.
  This is particularly important when running instances of short-duration
  scripts in parallel, where the total time used to repeatedly invoke the shell
  becomes significant.  [Special thanks to V. Hamner for the suggestion.]

version 1.0.26:  2012-06-17

  Added nanosecond timestamp support to filedate for systems and output formats
  that support it.

  Made filenode compatible with 64-bit inode numbers.

  Updated the FAQ and several manpages to better explain how the littleutils
  compare to coreutils.

  Updated to autoconf-2.69.

version 1.0.25:  2012-01-12

  Rename the realpath utility to lrealpath.  The old name is the same as that
  of a new utility distributed with coreutils-8.15.  The new name should be
  collision-free.

  Added new littleutil to-gzip.

  Added .lzo file handling capability to to-bzip, to-lzip, to-lzma, and to-xz.

version 1.0.24:  2011-03-06

  Added new littleutil wipe-free, which overwrites all free space in a
  filesystem with zeros.

  Added -a option to opt-jpg and recomp-jpg to control whether or not trials
  with arithmetic encoding will be allowed.  This alternate encoding improves
  compression performance, but at the potential expense of lost compatibility
  with older graphics software.

  Updated lreplace, notabs, and notrail to print a comment when a file is
  modified.  This can be suppressed with the -q option, or comments on ALL
  files examined can be generated with the -v option.

  The filehash utility now uses about 2% less CPU time, which in turn means
  that the repeats utility now uses about 2% less CPU time.

  Added notes to several manpages that describe how to take advantage of
  parallel processing.

  Updated to autoconf-2.68.

version 1.0.23:  2009-11-11

  Improved 32-bit vs 64-bit installation techniques, to facilitate downstream
  packaging efforts.  None of the actual utilities are changed from version
  1.0.22.

version 1.0.22:  2009-11-01

  Updated to autoconf-2.64.

  Added new littleutil fileown, which allows a query of a file's uid/username
  or gid/group name.

  Added -m option to opt-jpg to control whether comments and other extra
  markers are copied with the JPEG files.

version 1.0.21:  2009-04-11

  Updated to autoconf-2.63.

  Removed .7z-to-.lzma conversion capability from to-lzma.  This was always
  fairly pointless, given the similarity in compression ratios.  Removing it
  simplifies maintenance.

  Added new littleutils to-lzip and to-xz, which are markedly similar to
  to-lzma, except that lzip from LZIP and xz from the XZ utils are used
  instead.

version 1.0.20:  2008-03-17

  Removed memchurn utility entirely.  Anyone looking to do real memory testing
  should be using memtest86 or memtest86+ instead.

  Improved portability for to-7zip script in the "extra" subdirectory.

  BUGFIX!  The -t option in filedate didn't actually create output that was
  compatible with the -t option of touch.  This has been fixed.

  BUGFIX!  The pngstrip utility (and the opt-png script that called it) would
  sometimes delete the transparency chunk even without the -a option.  This
  long-standing bug identified by an anonymous SourceForge user has been fixed.

version 1.0.19:  2008-01-23

  BUGFIX!  The 1.0.18 version of repeats fails to remove temporary working
  files.  This has now been fixed.

  Reworked to-lzma to use either Ville Koskinen's lzma utility (part of LZMA
  Utils), which uses gzip-style options, or Igor Pavlov's lzma_alone (part of
  LZMA SDK), which uses 7zip-style options.

  Tweaked numerous manpages.

version 1.0.18:  2008-01-23

  Substantially reworked filehash utility, allowing it to print any of the MD5,
  SHA1, SHA224, SHA256, SHA384, and/or SHA512 algorithms.  These are selected
  using the -1, -2, -3, -4, -5, and -6 options, respectively.  Printing
  filesizes is now optional with the -s option.  The -q and -v options can be
  used to enforce or suppress filename printing, in the same manner as most
  of the other "file*" utilities.

  The repeats utility now only uses a single selectable hash instead of two
  fixed hashes (previously MD5 and SHA1).  The default is now the SHA256
  algorithm.  It now reads each file only once instead of twice, potentially
  making utility execution faster, particular on very large files.

  Added frenum utility (generously donated by Renuk de Silva).  This clever
  utility allows mass renaming/renumbering of files using a number of different
  schemes.

  BUGFIX!  Fixed some broken autoconfig logic regarding getopt include file
  handling.  Amazing, no bug reports associated with this have been reported.

version 1.0.17:  2007-10-18

  Re-released most utilities under GPL version 3.

  The tempname utility now features a -D option which can be used to create a
  temporary directory instead of a temporary file.

  Removed -q option from realpath utility.  It now operates in quiet mode
  always unless explicitly called to do otherwise with the -v option.

version 1.0.16:  2006-11-18

  Feature enhancement.  The tempname utility can now use the -c option and the
  -s option simultaneously.  Using the -c option is *still* not recommended.

  Feature enhancement.  The to-7zip utility (in the extra directory) now tries
  the PPMd compression algorithm in addition to LZMA.  Whichever algorithm
  yields better results is used.

version 1.0.15a:  2006-10-15

  BUGFIX!  The to-lzma utility in the extra directory (only installed with the
  "make install-extra" command) was completely broken due to bad temporary file
  handling.  This patch fixes the problem.

  [Special thanks to Rus V. Brushkoff for the error report and a preliminary
  version of the patch.]

version 1.0.15:  2006-10-12

  Build fixes.  Build was broken entirely on Solaris 2.8.  This is now fixed.

  Also, manpage for new recomp-jpg utility was not properly installed.  This is
  also fixed.

  [Sigh...  I obviously didn't test 1.0.14 enough.  My apologies.]

version 1.0.14:  2006-10-11

  Added new littleutil recomp-jpg, used for shrinking down oversized JPEG image
  files.

  Minor bugfix.  Help message in filehash utility said "filesize".  It now says
  "filehash" as it should.

  Minor bugfix.  Make options handling in lreplace more robust, to ensure that
  both the -i and -o options are set.

  Minor feature enhancement.  Make repeats immune to declaring as repeats two
  files on different devices that happen to have the same filesize and inode
  number.

  Tweaked autoconf scripts to eliminate spurious "seems to ignore the
  --datarootdir setting" warnings created by autoconf-2.60.  Manpages are now
  installed under /usr/local/share/man instead of /usr/local/man.

version 1.0.13:  2006-06-08

  Rename the replace utility to lreplace.  The old replace name was the same
  as a common MySQL command.  The new name should be collision-free.

  [Special thanks to "crazy" of Frugalware, who spotted this issue.  The
  Frugalware folks renamed replace to lreplace, so I decided to do the same.]

  Added examples to several manpages.

version 1.0.12:  2006-05-08

  Various minor documentation clean-ups.  No actual code changes.

version 1.0.11:  2006-03-22

  Added to-lzma utility.

  Added -d option to to-bzip, to-7zip, and to-lzma utilities to delete original
  version of the compressed data.

  Added -k option to to-bzip, to-7zip, and to-lzma utilities to keep whichever
  version of the compressed data is smallest.

version 1.0.10:  2006-02-22

  Added to-bzip to to-7zip utilities.

version 1.0.9:  2005-12-02

  The repeats utility no longer lists hardlinked files as duplicates.  The old
  behavior can be reenabled with the -l option.

  Significant cleanups to manpages and other documentation.

version 1.0.8:  2005-11-05

  BUGFIX!  The uppercase, lowercase, and pren utility couldn't rename
  directories on Unix because of a security check glitch.  This has been fixed.

version 1.0.7:  2005-11-03

  Added lowercase and uppercase utilities.

  Added optional pren (perl rename) utility, found in the extra subdirectory.
  Install with "make install-extra".

  BUGFIX!  The "-d" option in replace was accidentally disabled.  This is now
  fixed.

version 1.0.6:  2005-10-13

  Most littleutils will now print version information along with help info.

  BUGFIX!  Fixed memory allocation in randomize that caused memory exhaustion
  when standard input was used.

version 1.0.5:  2005-07-04

  BUGFIX!  Fixed option-parsing glitch in randomize that prevented -0/-z option
  from working.

  BUGFIX!  Previously, the -g option of pngstrip would not convert
  palette-based PNG images to grayscale.  This has been fixed.

  Now when then memchurn utility runs out of memory now, it will simply stop
  allocating (and proceed with what it has) instead of aborting completely.

  Removed opt-gjpg and gray-png scripts.  Added -g flags to opt-jpg and opt-png
  to compensate.

version 1.0.4:  2005-06-21

  Reworked randomize to allow for arbitrary length lines and multiple input
  files.  It previously had a 1024 character limit on line length.  It is
  also now much more efficient with memory.

version 1.0.3:  2005-01-03

  Corrected largefile issues on filehash (Cygwin in particular).

  Improved error handling on most scripts.

version 1.0.2:  2004-11-06

  Added memchurn utility.

  Reworked opt-gif script to use gifsicle as a core instead of converting to
  PNG and back.  It's much faster and even works with animated GIF images.

version 1.0.1:  2004-07-28

  Renamed from miscutils to littleutils.  The miscutils namespace was already
  pretty crowded.

  Added replace script.

version 1.0.0:  2004-07-25

  Initial public release.
