1 Version 1.47 June 9, 2015
3 * Set document language for localised info pages.
4 * Add French and Spanish translation of info documentation.
5 * Add Spanish and Danish translations.
6 * Add support for reproducible builds by using $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH as the
7 date for the generated pages.
9 Version 1.46 July 7, 2014
11 * Add German, Ukranian and Polish translations of info documentation.
12 * Add Hungarian and Norwegian Bokmaal translations.
14 Version 1.45 March 24, 2014
16 * Add recognition of explicit section headings indicated with *Heading*.
17 * Improve handling of tagged paragraphs when body is on a following line.
18 * Add escapes to adjust spacing of italic text at roman/italic boundaries.
20 Version 1.44 February 2, 2014
22 * Parse option lines in the header section of include files using shell word
23 splitting which allows quoting of multiple words and backslash-escaping of
26 Version 1.43 Jun 4, 2013
28 * Add explicit include syntax for prepending, replacing or appending to
29 generated output for a section.
31 Version 1.42 May 28, 2013
33 * Consistently strip path and/or libtool `lt-' prefix from program
36 Version 1.41 December 31, 2012
38 * Set filenames in italics.
39 * Suppress option/filename handling in EXAMPLES section.
40 * Add Croatian translation.
41 * Add Serbian translation.
43 Version 1.40 May 28, 2011
45 * Update texinfo docs.
46 * Document --libtool option.
47 * Allow date format to be localised.
48 * Add Japanese translation.
50 Version 1.39 March 8, 2011
52 * Add --libtool option to remove `lt-' prefix for libtool programs.
53 * Add Ukranian translation.
54 * Add Esperanto translation.
56 Version 1.38 April 26, 2010
58 * Support ENVIRONMENT and FILES sections.
59 * Move all translated text into .po files (previously .h2m include
60 files were handled seperately).
61 * Submit package to the Translation Project (translationproject.org).
62 * Add Vietnamese translation.
63 * Add some comments for translators.
65 Version 1.37 November 14, 2009
68 * Add --version-string option.
69 * Add --no-discard-stderr option.
70 * Add line breaks into bug reporting section.
71 * Add Brazilian Portuguese and German translations.
72 * Select a reasonable configure default for --enable-nls.
73 * Revise preload mechanism to not require preloadable libintl.
75 Version 1.36 October 17, 2005
77 * Add default territory to --locale option.
78 * Add Finnish translations.
80 Version 1.35 November 25, 2004
82 * Set program name to the first word of NAME paragraph in --include
85 Version 1.34 November 20, 2004
87 * Escape all unescaped hyphens in output.
88 * Convert parenthesised options, eg (-F).
89 * Fix info section in SEE ALSO to use $program rather than
90 $info_page when referring to the program.
92 Version 1.33 July 18, 2003
94 * Add Polish translations.
95 * Support for localised "Usage:" output.
96 * configure: add --disable-nls option; verify gettext support.
98 Version 1.32 July 10, 2003
100 * Set modification time on generated help2man script so that generation
101 of man pages is dependent only on changes to the source help2man.PL
104 Version 1.31 July 9, 2003
106 * Check for errors writing to output page.
108 Version 1.30 July 9, 2003
110 * Support for localised manual pages has been added (--locale option).
112 Version 1.29 September 7, 2002
114 * Change info category to "GNU programming support".
116 Version 1.28 June 4, 2002
118 * Add --info-page option.
120 Version 1.27 March 19, 2002
122 * Allow short and long options to be separated by multiple spaces
125 Version 1.26 March 9, 2002
127 * Documentation updates giving suggested --help output.
129 Version 1.25 December 3, 2001
131 * New --source and --manual options to allow the page headers and
132 footers to be specified.
134 * New --help-option and --version-option options to cater for programs
135 which don't support the standard --help and --version.
137 Version 1.24 December 22, 2000
139 * Allow options to be specified in the initial block of include files.
141 Version 1.23 October 31, 2000
143 * Escape leading apostrophes.
145 Version 1.022 July 7, 2000
147 * help2man is now officially a GNU program. Add bug reporting
148 address and `GNU' prefix.
150 * configure now checks for `perl5' as well as `perl'.
152 Version 1.021 April 16, 2000
154 * Create directories if required (Makefile).
156 Version 1.020 December 30, 1999
158 * Remove directory from command name(s) in synopsis.
160 Version 1.019 November 3, 1999
162 * Sadly, 2+ spaces *are* required to unambiguously separate options
165 Version 1.018 November 1, 1999
167 * Recognise additional synopsis lines without requiring `or:' prefix.
168 * Adjust option tagged paragraph matching so that the first option
169 argument does not require an `='.
171 Version 1.017 October 27, 1999
173 * Allow --include to be used multiple times.
174 * Include files may now contain `/pattern/' which will append the text
175 following to any paragraph which matches the pattern.
177 Version 1.016 October 25, 1999
179 * Handle indenting/continuation of things which look like options
180 separately. This removes the requirement for 2+ spaces between
181 option and description, allows the description to occur on the line
182 below the option and relaxes the indent matching rules for continued