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commit 6b293572804d0dc653a53e5a847524b0fcc673ff
Merge: 4d10697 e6fedc7
Author: Jari Oksanen <jari.oksanen@oulu.fi>
Date:   Sun Oct 12 19:04:32 2014 +0300

    Merge pull request #55 from jarioksa/NEWS

    News

commit e6fedc707a3d0d2503d410a31af2579463d204be
Author: Jari Oksanen <jari.oksanen@oulu.fi>
Date:   Sun Oct 12 19:01:27 2014 +0300

    First draft of complete release NEWS

commit 4d10697b90ada025c36b0d3022a5dad2841dc2e6
Author: Gavin Simpson <ucfagls@gmail.com>
Date:   Sat Oct 11 14:00:07 2014 -0600

    add appveyor badge to README.md

commit 769d9a145770f7450e5f0cbf05f3c321f25c0388
Author: Gavin Simpson <ucfagls@gmail.com>
Date:   Sat Oct 11 13:58:04 2014 -0600

    add appveyor CI support

commit f988022a5335011a013f933c688a973b2d717e21
Author: Jari Oksanen <jari.oksanen@oulu.fi>
Date:   Sat Oct 11 11:04:37 2014 +0300

    more flesh to NEWS

commit 0d019be1a56809519f527ea2a22ef7de3af44240
Author: Jari Oksanen <jari.oksanen@oulu.fi>
Date:   Sat Oct 11 08:57:27 2014 +0300

    more flesh to the NEWS skeleton

commit 93fd83cc7f7723c78b0b26676608e092cd994901
Author: Jari Oksanen <jari.oksanen@oulu.fi>
Date:   Sat Oct 11 08:28:46 2014 +0300

    Pick NEWS from diff -U2 vegan_2.0-10/R vegan_2.2-0/R

commit 16d74e39dd745c445cb862aae860ddbc83d25a57
Author: Jari Oksanen <jari.oksanen@oulu.fi>
Date:   Tue Oct 7 21:06:02 2014 +0300

    skeleton of NEWS about vegan 2.2-0

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