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+Changes in release 2.1
+[2.0a]
+* tail's (short only) -f option no longer accepts an optional argument,
+  so e.g., `tail -fn 2 file' works again.
+* tail no longer refuses to operate on certain types of files
+* fixed bug in tsort's handling of cycles
 Changes in release 2.0
 [1.22q]
 * HPUX portability fix: md5sum would dump core due to use of libc's getline