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* Noteworthy changes in Version 1.4.14 (2009-??-??) [stable]
Released by Eric Blake, based on git version 1.4.13.*
-** Fix regression introduced in 1.4.13 in the `esyscmd' builtin, where
+** Fix regression introduced in 1.4.12 where executing with stdout closed
+ could crash m4 on exit on some platforms.
+
+** Fix regressions introduced in 1.4.13 in the `esyscmd' builtin, where
+ closed file descriptors could interfere with child execution, and where
a child status of 127 made m4 print a spurious message to stderr.
** A number of portability improvements inherited from gnulib.