2001-08-28  Frank Warmerdam  <warmerdam@pobox.com>

	* Issue Shapelib 1.2.9

	* shputils.c: DBFAddField() call should check for -1 return value
	for failure.

2001-07-03  Frank Warmerdam  <warmerdam@pobox.com>

	* shpopen.c: cleanup better if SHX missing, provided by 
	Riccardo Cohen.

2001-06-21  Frank Warmerdam  <warmerdam@pobox.com>

	* dbfopen.c: Fixed NULL support with patches from Jim Matthews. 

	* shpopen.c: Be more careful of establishing initial file bounds in
	face of possible NULL shapes.

2001-06-01  Frank Warmerdam  <warmerdam@pobox.com>

	* dbfopen.c: ensure binary mode open.

2001-05-31  Frank Warmerdam  <warmerdam@pobox.com>

	* shpopen.c: Add support for writing null shapes.

	* dbfopen.c: added DBFGetFieldIndex(), contributed by Jim Matthews.

	* dbfopen.c/shapefil.h/dbf_api.h: added support for NULL fields
	in .dbf files. 

2001-05-28  Frank Warmerdam  <warmerdam@pobox.com>

	* shpopen.c: add some checking on the record count to ensure it
	is reasonable.

2001-05-23  Frank Warmerdam  <warmerdam@pobox.com>

	* shapefile.h, shpopen.c, dbfopen.c, shptree.c: added the SHPAPI_CALL
	macro to allow compilation with _stdcall conventions. 

2001-02-06  Frank Warmerdam  <warmerdam@pobox.com>

	* Fixed a few memory leaks when SHPOpen() fails. 

2000-12-05  Frank Warmerdam  <warmerdam@pobox.com>

	* Fix from Craig Bruce (Cubewerx) for DBFReadAttribute() for
	the white space trimming code to avoid reading outside allocated
	memory.

2000-11-02  Frank Warmerdam  <warmerda@cs46980-c>

	* Checked in upgraded shputils.c from Bill Miller.

2000-10-05  Frank Warmerdam  <warmerda@cs46980-c>

	* Fixed DBFWriteAttribute() to ensure we can't overwrite the
	end of the szSField buffer even if the width is set large.
	Bug report by Kirk Benell <kirk@rsinc.com>.

2000-09-25  Frank Warmerdam  <warmerda@cs46980-c>

	* Added DBFGetNativeFieldType() (contributed by Daniel) to dbfopen.c.

2000-07-18  Frank Warmerdam  <warmerda@cs46980-c>

	* added better enforcement of -1 for append in SHPWriteObject().

2000-07-07  Frank Warmerdam  <warmerda@cs46980-c>

	* Added stdlib.h and string.h where needed, and removed lots of 
	unused variables, mainly from example mainlines at the suggestion
	of Bill Hughes. 

2000-05-24  Frank Warmerdam  <warmerda@cs46980-c>

	* Added logic to shpadd to grow vertex lists at the suggestion of 
	Santiago Nullo <sn@softhome.net>.
	
2000-05-23  Frank Warmerdam  <warmerda@cs46980-c>

	* Added checks in dbfopen.c on return result of fseek() and fread().

	* Avoid crashing in DBReadIntegerAttribute() or DBFReadDoubleAttribte()
	if the field or record are out of range.

2000-03-28  Frank Warmerdam  <warmerda@cs46980-c>

	* Release as 1.2.8.

	* Incorporated a -version-info fix and added mkinstalldirs from Jan.

2000-03-17  Frank Warmerdam  <warmerda@cs46980-c>

	* Added shared library hack to Makefile.

	* Fixed up test scripts to look in ./ for executables.

Wed Feb 16 11:20:29 2000  Frank Warmerdam  <warmerda@gdal.velocet.ca>

	* Release 1.2.7.

	* Modified SHPReadObject() so that will return NULL (type 0) shapes
	in a sort of sensible way.

Wed Dec 15 08:49:53 1999  Frank Warmerdam  <warmerda@gdal.velocet.ca>

	* Fixed record size written at beginning of records in .shp
	file.  It was 4 bytes to long (thanks to Mikko Syrja of 3D-system Oy)
	
	* Use atof() instead of sscanf() in dbfopen.c, and add stdlib.h.

Mon Dec 13 12:29:01 1999  Frank Warmerdam  <warmerda@gdal.velocet.ca>

	* Added support for uppercase .DBF extention c/o 
          Dennis Christopher <dennis@avenza.com>

Fri Nov  5 09:12:31 1999  Frank Warmerdam  <warmerda@gdal.velocet.ca>

	* Updated license headers to include the option of use of the code
	  under the LGPL.
	  
1999-09-15 <warmerda@CS46980-B>

	* Added shapelib.dll target to makefile.vc.

Mon May 10 23:19:42 1999  Frank Warmerdam  <warmerda@gdal.velocet.ca>

	* Added candrsn's improvements to extension handling in dbfopen.c

	* Added ``raw tuple'' api to dbfopen.c, still not in dbf_api.html.
	  From candrsn.
	

Tue May  4 11:04:31 1999  Frank Warmerdam  <warmerda@gdal.velocet.ca>

	* Prepare 1.2.5 release.

	* Added support for 'F' fields.