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+Changes version 0.4.2 (2008-05-16)
+==================================
+
+    * added full extraction support for protected maps used in
+      warcraft 3.
+
+    * added full extraction support for all blizzard titles until
+      world of warcraft - the burning crusade.
+
+    * added support for archives version 2 with extended header and
+      extended block table.
+
+    * added support for the bzip2 compression algorithm.
+
+    * added support for archives and files inside archive > 2gb.
+
+    * added generic read functions, which will do decryption,
+      decompression or exploding.
+
+    * the info functions are no longer exported by the library and
+      were replaced by separate api functions.
+
+    * the file number and block number are count from 0 instead
+      of 1.
+
+    * added python bindings.
+
+    * linking against libmpq requires from now on the usual largefile
+      macros -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGE_FILES=1 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE=1
+
+Changes version 0.4.1 (2008-04-02)
+==================================
+
+    * memory, speed and stability improvements.
+
+    * split sourcecode into library and utility package.
+
+Changes version 0.4.0 (2008-03-31)
+==================================
+
+    * added robust error handling to make the library and extracting
+      utility more stable.
+
+    * added c++ bindings to public include and moved internal defines
+      and functions to private include.
+
+    * added support for 64-bit architectures and removed any stupid
+      pointer to int arithmetics.
+
+    * added much better member names to the structures to make
+      developers able to understand the code on reading.
+
+    * added full api documentation using manual pages.
+
+    * added full extraction support for all blizzard titles until
+      warcraft 3 - the frozen throne.
+
+    * added support for single sector and stored files (neither
+      compressed nor imploded).
+
+    * added support for files which have compressed size greater than
+      uncompressed size.
+
+    * removed the external listfile database support from 0.3.0 it
+      was a weird implementation.
+
+Changes version 0.3.0 (2004-02-12)
+==================================
+
+    * added listfile database support from external files.
+
+Initial version 0.2.1 (2004-01-17)
+==================================
+
+    * first version which was able to extract some of the older mopaq
+      archives.