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 [4.5.2]
+* od's 8-bytes formats x8, o8, and u8 now work
 * tail now accepts fractional seconds for its --sleep-interval=S (-s) option
 [4.5.1]
 * du and ls now report sizes of symbolic links (before they'd always report 0)