# HG changeset patch
# User John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
# Date 1297286954 18000
# Node ID 455f2db40a8f1cfbf76327ec4dc05332c8655eb4
# Parent  aa2cc2533306ba41cae106ee71ca9abcca5f74ec
update NEWS

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2011-02-09  John W. Eaton  <jwe@octave.org>
+
+	* NEWS: Update.
+
 2011-02-09  Ben Abbott  <bpabbott@mac.com>
 
 	* README.MacOS: Spelling corrections.
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -358,6 +358,20 @@
     appended, and the anonymous function call does not occur on the
     call stack.
 
+ ** For compatibility with Matlab, mu2lin (x) is now equivalent to
+    mu2lin (x, 0).
+
+ ** The new function `history_control' may be used to control the way
+    command lines are added to the history list when Octave is using
+    readline for command-line editing.  For example
+
+      history_control ("ignoredups")
+
+    tells Octave to avoid adding duplicate lines to the history list.
+
+ ** Octave now uses the gnulib library for improved portability and to
+    avoid bugs in operating system functions.
+
  ** Deprecated functions.
 
     The following functions were deprecated in Octave 3.0 and have been
@@ -417,9 +431,6 @@
       autocov  dispatch  glpkmex    replot
       betai    fstat     is_global  saveimage
 
- ** For compatibility with Matlab, mu2lin (x) is now equivalent to
-    mu2lin (x, 0).
-
 Summary of important user-visible changes for version 3.2:
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