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+The Guile core distribution:
+- Marcus Daniels contributed changes to make Guile work under Windows NT
+  (using the cygwin32 DLL).
+
+Bug reports and fixes from:
+Jim Ravan
+
+Also, thanks to Pat Eyler, for his continuing work on the Guile web pages!
+
+The Guile reference manual:
+- Mark Galassi, for general stewardship
+- Tim Pierce, for writing sections on script interpreter triggers, alists,
+  function tracing, and splitting the manual into its own module.
+Doc bug fixes from:
+Marcus Daniels
+
+The Guile SCSH port:
+- Gary Houston did the port
+
+guile-core 1.2
+
+The Guile core distribution:
+- Tim Pierce, for the light-weight SCSH-compatible regexp interface,
+  tracking down Solaris problems, and miscellaneous bug fixes
+- Gary Houston, for continued work on the system call support
+- Anthony Green, for help debugging problems on Solaris under Sun's
+  compiler, and general thread expertise
+- Marius Vollmer, for tracking down problems with disappearing
+  threads, and improving the way structures print
+- Bernard URBAN, for making Hobbit work with Guile, and bug reports
+- Marcus Daniels and Russ McManus, for work on the cygwin (or
+  gnu-win32) port.
+
+Bug reports and fixes from:
+   Aleksandar Bakic
+       Thomas Bushnell
+       Marcus Daniels
+         Bill Janssen
+      Russell McManus
+         Bill Nell
+        Larry Schwimmer
+       Maciej Stachowiak
+        Bruce Stephens
+     Maurizio Vitale
+       YABUKI Youichi
+
+Also, thanks to Pat Eyler, for his work on the Guile web pages!
+
+
+guile-core 1.1
+
+The Guile core distribution:
+- Gary Houston, much work on system call support, many bug fixes 
+- Marius Vollmer, much work on dynamic linking support
+- Mikael Djurfeldt, debugging support and general hacking
+- Tim Pierce, for writing the gh_lookup and gh_module_lookup functions,
+  fixing bugs in the shared substring support throughout the core, 
+  fixes to gethost, getproto, etc.,
+- Philippe Defert, for testing on a bunch of different machines
+- Peter Mattis, for testing with the GIMP
+- Roland McGrath, for the fcntl implementation
+- Aubrey Jaffer, for some of the code in script.c
+- Anthony Green, bug fixes
+- Bernard URBAN, for new shl shared library support
+- Daniel Hagerty, for providing test machines and help with the release 
+Bug reports from: Philippe Defert, Fred Fish, Anthony Green, Thomas
+Morgan, Tim Pierce, and many others before I started keeping track
+
+
+