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 NEWS for OpenSC -- History of user visible changes
 
-New in 0.8.1; 2003-09-xx; Olaf Kirch:
+New in 0.8.1; 2003-09-30; Olaf Kirch:
 * Upgrade libopensc versioning, hasn't been
   accidently upgraded since 0.6.0 release
 * MacOS X specific changes: