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+Changes between release 2.5.2 (19Apr95) and release 2.5.1:
+
+	- The --prefix configuration option now works.
+
+	- A bug that completely broke the "-Cf" table compression
+	  option has been fixed.
+
+	- A major headache involving "const" declarators and Solaris
+	  systems has been fixed.
+
+	- An octal escape sequence in a flex regular expression must
+	  now contain only the digits 0-7.
+
+	- You can now use "--" on the flex command line to mark the
+	  end of flex options.
+
+	- You can now specify the filename '-' as a synonym for stdin.
+
+	- By default, the scanners generated by flex no longer
+	  statically initialize yyin and yyout to stdin and stdout.
+	  This change is necessary because in some ANSI environments,
+	  stdin and stdout are not compile-time constant.  You can
+	  force the initialization using "%option stdinit" in the first
+	  section of your flex input.
+
+	- "%option nounput" now correctly omits the unput() routine
+	  from the output.
+
+	- "make clean" now removes config.log, config.cache, and the
+	  flex binary.  The fact that it removes the flex binary means
+	  you should take care if making changes to scan.l, to make
+	  sure you don't wind up in a bootstrap problem.
+
+	- In general, the Makefile has been reworked somewhat (thanks
+	  to Francois Pinard) for added flexibility - more changes will
+	  follow in subsequent releases.
+
+	- The .texi and .info files in MISC/texinfo/ have been updated,
+	  thanks also to Francois Pinard.
+
+	- The FlexLexer::yylex(istream* new_in, ostream* new_out) method
+	  now does not have a default for the first argument, to disambiguate
+	  it from FlexLexer::yylex().
+
+	- A bug in destructing a FlexLexer object before doing any scanning
+	  with it has been fixed.
+
+	- The alloca() chud necessary to accommodate bison has grown
+	  even uglier, but hopefully more correct.
+
+	- EBCDIC contact information in the file MISC/EBCDIC has been updated.
+
+	- An OS/2 Makefile and config.h for flex 2.5 is now available in
+	  MISC/OS2/, contributed by Kai Uwe Rommel.
+
+	- The notes on building flex for the Amiga have been updated for
+	  flex 2.5, contributed by Andreas Scherer.
+
+
 Changes between release 2.5.1 (28Mar95) and release 2.4.7:
 
 	- A new concept of "start condition" scope has been introduced.