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 ============
 Major Changes between 1.2.x and 1.3.x
 
-File access methods
+RRdtool dump / restore Incompatibilities
+----------------------------------------
+rrdtool dump 1.3 does emit completely legal xml. Basically this means that
+it contains an xml header and a DOCTYPE definition. Unfortunately this
+causes older versions of rrdtool restore to be unhappy.
+
+To restore a new dump with ann old rrdtool restore version, either remove
+the xml header and the doctype by hand (both on the first line of the dump)
+or use rrdtool dump --no-header.
+
+NEW File access methods (Bernhard Fischer)
 -------------------
 * introduced file-accessor functions rrd_read/rrd_seek/rrd_write
 * implemented full mmap-based file access with madvise hints for improved
@@ -10,11 +20,61 @@ File access methods
   disk
 * implemented optional full file-descriptor access instead of FILE* access
 
-Graphing
+NEW Graphing (Tobi Oetiker)
 --------
 * libart has been replaced by cairo/pango
 * pango markup is supported
-* full gridfitting
+* full gridfitting 
+* --graph-render-mode=mono for non antialiased graphing
+* --font-render-mode=mono for non antialiased fonts
+* fonts come through fontconfig, use the Pango fontnameing
+  scheme -> 'Times 20' ... it is not possible to use
+  truetype fonts directly anymore.
+* Tabs are position independent.
+* TRENDNAN filter that ignores NAN values while caculating the TREND data. (Timo Stripf)
+* --full-size-mode to specify the outer border of the image and not just of the graphing canvas (Matthew Chambers)
+* TEXTALIGN command to alter default text alignment behaviour
+* C API in-memory graphing with rrd_graph_v (Evan Miller)
+* draw dashed lines in graphs (Thomas Gutzler)
+* new interface graphv which returns inforamation using the rrd_info
+  interface (Tobi Oetiker and Mark Plaksin)
+
+NEW Forecasting (Evan Miller)
+-----------
+* the new MHWPREDICT consolidation function uses a variation of the Holt-Winters
+  method. It is a drop-in replacement for HWPREDICT, and is better suited for
+  data whose seasonal variations grow or shrink in proportion to the average.
+
+* If you create an RRD with the new MHWPREDICT function, the resulting
+  rrdfile will be version 0004 and can only be used in rrdtool 1.3.
+
+Rewrites
+--------
+* rrd_restore now uses libxml for parsing which makes things much more
+  tolerant towards xml variations. The old code could mostly just parse the
+  xml as it was output by rrdtool dump. See also: 'incompatibilities' at the
+  top of this document. (by Florian octo Forster)
+
+* rrd_update rewritten to make it more modular. Fixed two longstanding
+  HW bugs in the process (Evan Miller)
+
+Internationalization (Takao Fujiwara and Tobi Oetiker)
+--------------------
+* The help output by rrdtool has been internationalized. There are no real
+  translations included with rrdtool yet, contributions are welcome.
+* The internationalization will only be compiled if libintl and friends are
+  available on your system. Use the configure option --disable-libintl if
+  you want to disable this feature
+
+Misc
+----
+* ruby rrd_fetch will return step as a last property -- Mike Perham
+
+Locale Independent Numeric Input
+--------------------------------
+* Regardles of locale you are in, rrdtool always expects input to be numbers
+  (LC_NUMERIC) in C or POSIX locale for numbers. (not 1,1 but 1.1) this is
+  necessary to make things like RPN work as it uses , as a separator.
 
 RRDTOOL NEWS
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