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	Feb 18, 2009: Version 7.15.0 (development) is released. Recent compilers no longer able to compiles kcd-7.14.0. This new version fixes C++ compilation errors and ncurses header location in newer Linux distributions. Due to my switch of Linux distribution from Red Hat based Linux TLE to Ubuntu, source RPM will not be available. There is still one issue in version 7.15.0 that hasn't been addressed - problem with Unicode directories which will take a long time to investigate. Stable release will be available once all issues are resolved.
	Dec 5, 2007: Version 7.14.0 (stable) is released. This is simply 7.13.1 labeled with stable version number.
	Oct 13, 2007: Version 7.13.1 (development) is released. The next stable branch release will be 7.14.0 due to various incompatibility changes after upgrading autoconf development tool to 2.60.
	Jun 16, 2007: Version 7.13.0 (development) and 7.6.2 (stable) are released.
	Jan 1, 2005: Version 7.11.0 is released.
	Dec 6, 2004: Version 7.9.0 is released.
	Aug 2, 2004: Version 7.7.0 is released.
	Mar 29, 2004: Version 7.6.1 is released.
	Mar 27, 2004: Version 7.6.0 is released. This is a new stable series derived from the development version 7.5.0 with minor changes.
	Sep 6, 2003: Version 7.5.0 is released.
	Aug 2, 2003: Version 7.3.0 is released.
	Jul 20, 2003: Version 7.1.0 is released.
	Jul 7, 2003: Version 7.0.0 is released.
	May 29, 2003: Version 6.13.0 is released.
	Apr 25, 2003: Version 6.11.0 is released.
	Apr 13, 2003: Version 6.4.2 is released.
	Apr 7, 2003: Version 6.9.0 is released. The option -bx introduced in version 6.5.2 is deprecated and will be removed in the next release.
	Feb 27, 2003: Version 6.7.1 is released.
	Feb 23, 2003: Version 6.7.0 is released.
	Jan 18, 2003: Version 6.5.3 is released.
	Dec 6, 2002: Version 6.5.2 is released. Users of previous 6.5.x versions are advised to run kcd -bx after installation to preserve saved bookmark data.
	Nov 11, 2002: Version 6.4.1 and 6.5.1 are released. Binary RPM's are no longer released. Source RPM's, however, are still available.
	Nov 9, 2002: Version 6.5.0 is released.
	Nov 3, 2002: Version 6.4.0 is released. This is a new stable series. It supersedes previous 6.0 branch due to some major code restructure to support GCC 3.2 and newer gettext utilities.
	Oct 18, 2002: Version 6.3.0 is released.
	Sep 15, 2002: Version 6.1.1 is released.
	Sep 11, 2002: Version 6.1.0 is released. This is a new development version series. The next stable series is possibly 6.2.0.
	July 9, 2002: Web pages converted to XHTML 1.0.
	June 2, 2002: Version 6.0.0 is released. This is a new stable version series.
	May 10, 2002: Version 5.13.0 is released.
	May 6, 2002: Version 5.11.0 is released.
	May 3, 2002: Version 5.9.0 is released.
	May 1, 2002: Version 5.7.2 is released. This fixes a portability problem on some systems.
	Apr 27, 2002: Version 5.7.1 is released. This fixes some compilation problem. There is no need to upgrade if you can get 5.7.0 to compile for you.
	Aug 6, 2001: New screen shots for kcd 5.7.0 are added.
	Jul 22, 2001: Link to autodep is moved from kcd.sourceforge.net ftp download area to web space.
	Jul 13, 2001: There is a page about kcd on www.gnu.org.
	Jul 13, 2001: kcd 5.0.3 i386 binary package for Red Hat is now available thanks to Craig Jansen.
	Jul 7, 2001: Version 5.7.0 is released.
	May 6, 2001: Links for file download are now updated to use new sourceforge hostname.
	May 6, 2001: Version 5.0.3 is released.
	Oct 11, 2000: Version 5.5.1 was released on Oct 8, 2000. But the web page is updated today due to earlier ssh problem on Sourceforge.
	Sep 15, 2000: Version 5.5.0 is released.
	Sep 13, 2000: kcd is part of Storage Foundry.
	Sep 13, 2000: Old versions of kcd will be gradually added to the Sourceforge Project Filelist.
	Sep 11, 2000: kcd was featured among several softwares in the Free Application Showcase section in the October issue of Linux magazine.
	Sep 8, 2000: Version 5.3.3 is released.
	Sep 8, 2000: Version 5.3.2 is released. Locale should work in this version.
	Sep 7, 2000: Version 5.3.1 is released. There is a typo in the Makefile in previous release that prevent kcd to build properly.
	Sep 7, 2000: Version 5.3.0 is released.
	Sep 7, 2000: A new version number scheme is now used to distinguish between stable and development version of kcd.
	Aug 28, 2000: Version 5.1.3 is released.
	Aug 27, 2000: Version 5.1.2 is released.
	Aug 22, 2000: Version 5.1.1 is released.
	Aug 20, 2000: Version 5.1.0 is released. This is a new development branch with internationalization and localization infrastructure included.
	Aug 19, 2000: Version 5.0.2 is released.
	Aug 12, 2000: Version 5.0.1 is released. This fixes a serious bug in the previous version.
	Aug 11, 2000: Version 5.0.0 is released. This is the new stable version.
	Aug 5, 2000: Version 4.7.13 is released. It is currently the only version that works on IA-64. Later versions fail because of exception handling.
	Aug 4, 2000: Version 4.18.0 is released.
	Jun 4, 2000: Version 4.17.4 is released.
	Jun 3, 2000: Version 4.17.3 is released.
	Jun 1, 2000: Version 4.17.2 is released.
	May 29, 2000: Version 4.17.1 is released.
	Feb 14, 2000: If you upgrade to Red Hat 6.2, you will have to be recompile kcd again due to incompatibilities in the ncurses library.
	Feb 13, 2000: kcd has a new home page at kcd.sourceforge.net.
	kcd 4.11.2 is released on Jan 11, 2000. It provides work-around to compile and run on Red Hat 6.0 & 6.1 systems. Statically linked binary is no longer available for download. (kcd 4.7.x is not planned since the affected systems have already provided compilers suitable for building kcd 4.11.x versions.)
	A statically linked kcd 4.11.1 binary is available for i586 platform.
	kcd does not work on Red Hat 6.0 & 6.1 systems (and all derived distributions) since they come with ncurses 4.2 that is not built to support C++ applications . kcd will display the error message kcd: your ncurses library is bad. Refer to kcd README file for solution and abort. The problem should be fixed once a correctly built ncurses 5.0 rpm become available.
	ncurses 5.0 is released. It is now in GNU main FTP site. Check here for a list of mirror sites.
	kcd 4.11.1 is released on Aug 31, 1999
	kcd 4.7.11 is released on Sep 6, 1999
	kcd 4.11.0 is available on Sep 1, 1999. The update to the stable version of kcd will be available for download shortly.
	A new development version of kcd, version 4.11.0 is released on Mar 27, 1999. It is targeted for egcs or gcc-2.8.x users. The current branch 4.7.x will still be maintained for bug fixes only. No new featured will be added to the current version.

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