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@@ -8,6 +8,15 @@ Please send Guile bug reports to bug-guile@gnu.org.
 Guile 1.4.1 NOT YET RELEASED
 Changes since Guile 1.4:
 
+* installation fix: (ice-9 and-let*) has been renamed to (ice-9 and-let-star)
+
+This has been done to prevent problems on lesser operating systems
+that can't tolerate `*'s in file names.  The exported macro continues
+to be named `and-let*', of course.
+
+On systems that support it, there is also a compatibility module named
+(ice-9 and-let*).  It will go away in a future release.
+
 * bugfix: net_db.c `inet_aton' declaration now properly conditionalized
 
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