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UPGRADING.adoc, NEWS.adoc: mention changes in tools/gitlog2changelog.py.in [#2360, #2366]
Signed-off-by: Jim Klimov <jimklimov+nut@gmail.com>
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known deficiencies in Windows platform support, as well as some un-awareness
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about configuration key words which appeared in NUT since 2013. [#2290]
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- The `tools/gitlog2changelog.py.in` script was revised, in particular to
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convert section titles (with contributor names coming from Git metadata)
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into plain ASCII character set, for `dblatex` versions which do not allow
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diacritics and other kinds of non-trivial characters in sections. This can
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cause successful builds of `ChangeLog.pdf` file on more platforms, but at
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expense of a semi-cosmetic difference in those names. [PR #2360, PR #2366]
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Release notes for NUT 2.8.1 - what's new since 2.8.0
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UPGRADING.adoc

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appear as comments, or enabled by specifying the `-U` command-line
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option several times. [#2221]
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- The `tools/gitlog2changelog.py.in` script was revised, in particular to
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convert section titles (with contributor names) into plain ASCII character
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set, for `dblatex` versions which do not allow diacritics and other kinds
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of non-trivial characters in sections. A number of other projects seem to
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use the NUT version of the script, and are encouraged to look at related
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changes in `configure.ac` and `Makefile.am` recipes. [PR #2360, PR #2366]
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Changes from 2.8.0 to 2.8.1
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