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+2010-01-15  Joerg Wunsch <j.gnu@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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+	* configure.ac: Bump version for release 5.8.
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 2010-01-15  Joerg Wunsch <j.gnu@uriah.heep.sax.de>
 
 	Submitted by Soren Jorvang: