The author has not provided a dated changelog in the usual form. The following appears in the vera.texi file in the upstream package: History and other useful information ************************************ *V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms* *Version 5.8* (December 2001) Version 5.8 (Texinfo release 1.8) contains about 426 acronyms more than the last release. Now V.E.R.A. knows about 8914 acronyms. *Version 5.5* (March 2001) Version 5.5 (Texinfo release 1.7) contains about 320 acronyms more than the last release. Now V.E.R.A. knows about 8440 acronyms. There had been no update of the GNU version for nearly a year, which was mostly due to the lack of significant increase of acronyms. Please note that this is the first GNU edition of V.E.R.A. to be released under the GNU Free Documentation License. Please also note that Bob Hilliard now maintains the Debian vera package as well as the dict-* packages for the Debian GNU/LINUX distribution. *Version 5.2* (June 2000) Welcome to the first GNU edition of V.E.R.A. in the year 100, eh, I mean 1900+100 :) Version 5.2 (Texinfo release 1.6) contains about 500 acronyms more than the last release. Now V.E.R.A. knows about than 8119 acronyms. There had been no update of the GNU version for over a year, which was mostly due to the lack of significant increase of acronyms. Thanks to all the supporters, some of which did send huge lists with new acronyms. *Version 4.7* (March 1999) Version 4.7 (Texinfo release 1.5) contains about 100 acronyms more than the last release. Now V.E.R.A. knows about than 7592 acronyms. Corrected a bug in my script to replace german comments with the according english terms which led to the comment brackets being deleted in every line touched by it. *Version 4.6* (December 1998) Version 4.6 had not been released as Texinfo version, because there was no significant increase in the count of acronyms. *Version 4.5* (September 1998) Version 4.5 (Texinfo release 1.4) contains about 90 acronyms more than the last release. Now V.E.R.A. knows about than 7490 acronyms. I also received a lot of spelling corrections for the acronym expansions as well as for the text of this Texinfo release. Thanks to the submitters. *Version 4.4* (June 1998) Version 4.4 (Texinfo release 1.3) contains about 250 acronyms more than the last release. Now V.E.R.A. knows about more than 7400 acronyms. Version 4.2 had accidently been released containing ISO 8859-1 characters. I received no complaints, but I believe not everyone can display these characters as meant to be, so I switched back to 7 bit with this version. Recently V.E.R.A. ran into copyright/trademark problems. It's unbelievable how small the name space in the computer field went over the years. To give you an example there are acronyms in this list which have five or more different meanings. However Systems Science Inc. agreed to solve the problem by including the following sentence into the distribution: "This dictionary has nothing to do with Systems Science Inc. or its products." Please don't wonder if you surprisingly run into this sentence. *Version 4.3* (March 1998) I found no time to release V.E.R.A. 4.3 as Texinfo version in March 1998 as I was busy with other things. As compiling the Texinfo version is always additional work to do, I thought of to spare the March version and release the next Texinfo version on the next release date (June, 1st). *Version 4.2* Version 4.2 contains about 180 acronyms more than the last release. I also received a mail from the folks who maintain the GNU catalogue. This may mean that V.E.R.A. will be included on the GNU CD-ROM distribution, but I'm not sure. *Version 4.1* (December 1997) Version 4.1 contains about 500 acronyms more than the initial release. Now V.E.R.A. knows about more than 7000 acronyms. Besides I wrote a script which automagically translates the German references sometimes to be found behind the acronym expansions in the original version of V.E.R.A. into the appropriate English terms. It also adds `Germany' to German locations. However I still may have missed some German terms or locations. It is kind of awful to proof-read 7000 acronym expansions. If you still spot German terms in the references, please let me know about.