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+NEW in 0.5.0:
+==============
+- Support for version 1.1 of notification spec (Aurélien Gâteau, A. Walton)
+- Fixed #608089, Applications aborted at finalizing when the dbus session is being closed. (William Jon McCann)
+- Fixed #608082, Arabic text is misplaced in bubbles (RTL) (William Jon McCann)
+- Fixed #608086, wrong return value of notify_init() (William Jon McCann)
+- Fixed #612720, Does not compile with -DGSEAL_ENABLE (William Jon McCann)
+- Fixed #613999, Use g_strcompress in notify-send to parse \n from command line (William Jon McCann)
+- Fixed #610880, lazily initialize the daemon (Martin Pitt)
+
+
 version 0.4.5 (20-November-2008):
 	* Added GObject property accessors for notification IDs. Patch by Lucas
 	  Rocha.