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@@ -4,18 +4,22 @@ Copyright (C) 2000-2004  Stephane Fillod, Frank Singleton and others
 
 Please send Hamlib bug reports to hamlib-developer@lists.sourceforge.net
 
-Version 1.1.5
-	2004-02-xx
+Version 1.2.0
+	2004-02-16
+	* API change:
+		- freq_t type changed from long long to double
+		- setting_t changed from long long to long int.
+		- locator and dec/dms interface rework
+		- bump library CURRENT version info
 	* new backends: Lowe (HF-235), FlexRadio (SDR-1000), 
 			skelton TAPR (DSP-10), skelton RFT,
 			Ten-Tec models and many new models & fixes
 	* new rotator backends: sartek
-	* API change: freq_t to double, and setting_t to (single) long int.
 	* frontend: emulated transceive mode using polling
 	* icom: implemented retry, esp. useful for CI-V
 	* icom: pipelined tuning on Optoscan's
 	* microtune: no need of root priviledges anymore
-	* bindings: added Python, new install method
+	* bindings: added Python, new install method (perl is installed in $prefix)
 	* rigmem: new command to load/store memory content from/to XML file
 	* port: NetBSD & FreeBSD, mingw32(Windows) port, MacOSX ready