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@@ -1,8 +1,42 @@
+udev 143
+========
+Bugfixes.
+
+The configure options have changed because another library needs to be
+installed in a different location. Instead of exec_prefix and udev_prefix,
+libdir, rootlibdir and libexecdir are used. The Details are explained in
+the README file.
+
+Event processes now get re-used after they handled an event. This reduces
+the number of forks and the pressure on the CPU significantly, because
+cloned event processes no longer cause page faults in the main daemon.
+After the events have settled, a few worker processes stay around for
+future events, all others get cleaned up.
+
+To be able to use signalfd(), udev depends on kernel version 2.6.25 now.
+Also inotify support is mandatory now to run udev.
+
+The format of the queue exported by the udev damon has changed. There is
+no longer a /dev/.udev/queue/ directory. The current event queue can be
+accessed with udevadm settle and libudedv.
+
+Libudev does not have the unstable API header anymore. From now on,
+incompatible changes will be handled by bumping the library major version.
+
+To build udev from the git tree gtk-doc is needed now. The tarballs will
+build without it and contain the pre-built documentation. An online copy
+is available here:
+  http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/libudev/
+
+Many extras of the udev-extras repository have been merged into the main
+udev repository. Some of the extras have larger external dependencies, and
+they can be disabled with the configure switch --disable-extras.
+
 udev 142
 ========
 Bugfixes.
 
-The program vol_id and the library libvolume_id is removed from the
+The program vol_id and the library libvolume_id are removed from the
 repository. Libvolume_id is merged with libblkid from the util-linux-ng
 package. Persistent disk links for label and uuid depend on the
 util-linux-ng version (2.15) of blkid now. Older versions of blkid
@@ -13,11 +47,11 @@ to be delivered, and waking up the subscribing process, a filter can be
 installed, to drop messages inside a kernel socket filter. The filters
 match on the <subsytem>:<devtype> properties of the device.
     This is part of the ongoing effort to replace HAL, and switch current
-users over to directly use libudev, or for higher-level services use the
-specialized D-Bus interface of a DeviceKit service.
+users over to directly use libudev.
     Libudev is still marked as experimental, and its interface might
-change if needed, but no major changes of the currently exported interface
-are expected anymore, and a first stable release should happen soon.
+eventually change if needed, but no major changes of the currently exported
+interface are expected anymore, and a first stable release should happen
+soon.
 
 A too old kernel (2.6.21) or a kernel with CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED
 is not supported since while and udevd will log an error message at