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     1.4 +\section{History}
     1.5 +%TODO: let oliver prove read it!
     1.6 +%FIXME: add references
     1.7 +%FIXME: where does the name come from: masqdialer (guessed)
     1.8 +
     1.9 +The date of the first release (version 0.0.1) is unknown.
    1.10 +The only information available is, that it was packaged for \debian\ at 15\nth\ of September in 1999.
    1.11 +Further releases were made every few weeks or month during 2000, 2001 and 2002.
    1.12 +Development ended in mid-2003 in a hard stop.
    1.13 +The last ordinary release known to me is version 0.2.20, released on 4\nth\ of June in 2003.
    1.14 +
    1.15 +During the time of development, Oliver released 53 versions.
    1.16 +That means a new release in less than every 20 days in average!
    1.17 +
    1.18 +Mentionable are the four \emph{beta} releases of version 0.1.8 (named with the trailing letters `a' to `d') in winter 2000/2001 and the security-fix 0.1.15.1 in 2002.
    1.19 +
    1.20 +One extra release (version 0.2.21) was made by him in November 2005.
    1.21 +This one is only available from the \debian\ pool.
    1.22 +Comparing it to version 0.2.20 shows, that no source code was altered.
    1.23 +Only building documents (like Makefiles) and \debian\ packageing documents were changed.
    1.24 +That leeds to the assumption that this last release was specificly created for the needs of \debian---to fix some errors in the package.
    1.25 +
    1.26 +In May 2000 the minor version number increased to `1'.
    1.27 +Nothing special is mentioned in the documentation about that.
    1.28 +When it increased again to start the 0.2.x releases, Oliver titled them as the ``development branch'' of \masqmail.
    1.29 +At that second time, he started developing the 0.2.x ``development branch'', continuing to work on the 0.1.x series.
    1.30 +His parallel work on both branches lasted for four month, and one additional last release, numbered 0.1.17, one more year later.