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[Mohammad Akhlaghi]

branch: master
commit 71122fe9cb31a874a38a6890128dbb7425f1bec6
Author: Mohammad Akhlaghi <address@hidden>
Date:   Sun May 15 19:07:34 2016 +0900

    NEWS now lists all the recent changes
    
    The NEWS file was until now left unchanged, but now it contains a short
    summary of all the changes from version 0.0 to the (soon to be released
    version 0.1).
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-GNU Astronomy Utilities NEWS                        -*- outline -*-
+User-visible changes in GNU Astronomy Utilities (Gnuastro)
+==========================================================
 
-* Noteworthy changes in release 0.1 (2014-12-28) [stable]
+Introduction
+------------
 
-** Bug fixes
+The user-visible and significant changes in each official release of
+Gnuastro are written here in reverse chronological order, even within each
+category. So the recommended way to read the changes is from bottom to
+top. All the changes have been blended in the text of the official Gnuastro
+book. The most recent version of the book can be found in the link below:
 
+    https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuastro/manual/
 
-** New features
+Therefore this file should be the main reference for experienced users who
+are upgrading and want to learn what has changed since their last
+version. The most recent changes have not yet been given a version
+number. Further explanation on the changes can be seen in the version
+controlled history of Gnuastro (see "Version controlled source" section of
+the book). The parenthesis after each line contain the commit hash which
+contains more information. The commit message can be seen with the
+following command in the version controlled source.
 
+    git log HASH
 
-** Changes in behavior
+In the version controlled source, this file is not updated on every
+commit. It is updated after an arbitrarily long period to incorporate
+serveral recent changes. Please see "Synchronizing" section of the manual
+on how to stay informed of the changes before each official release.
+
+
+
+
+
+List of changes
+---------------
+
+YYYY-MM-DD (Until commit a55076a, on 2016-05-15)
+
+  ImageCrop
+
+    - Crop/keep regions outside of a given polygon with `--outpolygon'
+      (9566549).
+
+    - Crop/keep image regions within a polygon using the `--polygon'
+      option. The polygon vertices can be specified in image or WCS
+      coordinates (4e746a2).
+
+  NoiseChisel
+
+    - The limiting detection and clump S/N value is found over the whole
+      image, not within meshes (b48ce16).
+
+
+
+
+
+2015-09-13 (0.0)
+
+ - First official version of Gnuastro. Due to heavy development, this
+   version was not publicly released.