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@@ -5,6 +5,11 @@ USER VISIBLE CHANGES BETWEEN TAO-2.5.3 and TAO-2.5.4
   of servers which use the ImR heavily and each of
   them does a frequent shutdown/start cycle
 
+. The TAO_IDL frontend library now parses all IDL4
+  annotation-related syntax: using and defining annotations.
+  Use the tao_idl command-line options --idl-version and 
+  --unknown-annotations to control annotation parsing.
+
 USER VISIBLE CHANGES BETWEEN TAO-2.5.2 and TAO-2.5.3
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