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@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ Copyright @copyright{} 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1998, 1999,
@quotation
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
under the terms of the @acronym{GNU} Free Documentation License,
-Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software
+Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software
Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no
Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section
entitled ``@acronym{GNU} Free Documentation License.''
@@ -416,12 +416,14 @@ addressed some long standing bugs in the venerable 1.4 release. Then in
@acronym{GNU} @code{m4} 1.4 that were floating around the net and
released 1.4.3 and 1.4.4. And in 2006, Eric Blake joined the team and
prepared patches for the release of 1.4.5, 1.4.6, 1.4.7, and 1.4.8.
-More bug fixes were incorporated in 2007, with the releases of 1.4.9 and
-1.4.10, closing the series with 1.4.11 in 2008.
+More bug fixes were incorporated in 2007, with releases 1.4.9 and
+1.4.10. Eric continued with some portability fixes for 1.4.11 and
+1.4.12 in 2008, and 1.4.13 in 2009.
Additionally, in 2008, Eric rewrote the scanning engine to reduce
-recursive evaluation from quadratic to linear complexity, released as M4
-1.6. The 1.x branch series remains open for bug fixes.
+recursive evaluation from quadratic to linear complexity. This was
+released as M4 1.6 in 2009. The 1.x branch series remains open for bug
+fixes.
Meanwhile, development was underway for new features for @code{m4},
such as dynamic module loading and additional builtins, practically