NEW IN WAF 1.8.19
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* Fixed the Intel Fortran compiler detection on Windows systems #1681
* Fixed the detection of newer Sun compilers #1686
* Fixed the detection of NAG Fortran compilers #1684
* Fixed missing variable dependencies of the form ARCH_ST used in ${ARCH_ST:ARCH} expressions
* Added conf.check(..., comment='some text') to document configuration headers

NEW IN WAF 1.8.18
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* Fixed a regression in exec_cfg() introduced in 1fbac66 #1670
* Added a new option --clear-failed to unit test builds #1678
* Added support for scriptlet expressions of the form ${FOO:SRC[0].abspath()}
* Added define comments to configuration headers: conf.define(.., commment='')
* Added experimental Wix and Satellizer tools #1666
* Added backslash replacement to resx processing

NEW IN WAF 1.8.17
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* Added customizations that enable building whole projects from the build folder instead of the variant folder
* Added a project generator for Xcode 6 #1648
* Force scanner functions to run after task failures #1660
* Improved the Intel Fortran compiler detection #1655
* Added processing of chmod attributes on subst and rule when provided #1650
* Enabled global_define in conf.check() tests
* Enabled usage of home folder/tilde ~ in Configure.find_files
* Added usage of options.enable_gccdeps when provided by user scripts
* Enabled 'waf -v' to catch invalid string on hcode values in Python3
* Fixed the function names returned by the @conf and @run_once decorators
* Let 'subst' change permissions for all its files with chmod (not just the first one)
* Added quoting for space-containing-arguments in print_commands.py

NEW IN WAF 1.8.16
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* Reverted the changes to conf.check(header_name=) as this causes regressions. Use conf.check(header_name=, link_header_test=False) - #1647
* Disabled the loading of c_emscripten when building from the Waf tree
* Fixed the documentation build when using Sphinx < 1.3
* Propagate ldflags/LDFLAGS besides linkflags/LINKFLAGS
* Python3 fixes in extras/file_to_object.py

NEW IN WAF 1.8.15
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* Enabled multiple commands in run_str/rule
* Fixed conf.check(header_name=) so that it does not link test by default
* Added a workaround for non-standard python installations (Python bug 7352) - #1636
* Enabled conf.check_cfg to use conf.env.env as os environment if provided
* Enabled relative paths in --top and --out
* Enabled gzip compression for Waf file creation with Jython
* Added a workaround for building projects using IronPython
* Added a workarounds for pkg-config usage within msys2 and for inconsistent Python 2 paths

NEW IN WAF 1.8.14
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* Fixed the Visual Studio detection on Python 3 when --msvc_lazy_autodetect is not provided (regression)
* Enable vala processing on a folder basis with the vala_dir parameter - #1601
* Enable vala resource processing - #1626
* Minor documentation updates - #1605

NEW IN WAF 1.8.13
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* Exposed the Popen parameters input/timeout to cmd_and_log/exec_command (timeout is for Python >= 3.3)
* Added 'with_sys_path' to Context.load_tool to use/skip sys.path
* Changed gccdeps so that it handle '..' within paths
* env = conf.env.derive().detach()
* Changed Sun compiler's default flags from -Kpic to -xcode=pic32 - #1625
* Added bld(rule=, ..., cls_str=, cls_keyword=) for more descriptive outputs - #1598
* Added a lazy Visual Studio detection option --msvc_lazy_autodetect - #1614
* Changed the definition of function tests to prevent warnings with gcc - #1622

NEW IN WAF 1.8.12
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* Fixed a regression when building in sub-folders - https://github.com/waf-project/waf/issues/1590
* New mac_files attribute which is expected to replace mac_resources in waf 1.9 (demos/mac_app/)
* env = env.derive().detach() to simplify deep copies

NEW IN WAF 1.8.11
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* Fortran fixes https://github.com/waf-project/waf/issues/1580
* Enabled installation of generated .py files
* Fixed the '--threading' option for valac https://github.com/waf-project/waf/issues/1577
* Shared library compatibility version handling on OSX

NEW IN WAF 1.8.10
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* Replace cygwin paths in solution files - https://github.com/waf-project/waf/issues/1562
* Fixed the hcode in why.py - https://github.com/waf-project/waf/issues/1561
* Enabled execution from any folder: "waf configure --top=/arbitrary/folder --out=/tmp/build"
* Enabled stateless out-of-tree builds by default: "waf configure --no-lock-in-top --no-lock-in-run"
* Fixed the waf file generation on windows in Waf 1.8.9
* Add OS flags such as LDFLAGS only once - https://github.com/waf-project/waf/issues/1574
* Fixed conf.multicheck error handling

NEW IN WAF 1.8.9
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* VS 2013 supports cross-compiling for x86 and arm from amd64
* Perl detection enhancements on Redhat systems
* More accurate rpath parsing in check_cfg

NEW IN WAF 1.8.8
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* Fixed a regression in Fortran builds #1546
* Fixed a regression in the libdir installation path on 32-bit ubuntu #1552
* Process -Bstatic and -Bdynamic in parse_flags (pkg-config tools)
* Fortran compiler detection to cover the sxf03 as well as the sxf90
* Jython detection enhancements
* Doxygen tool enhancements
* Moved the project to Github/waf.io and updated the documentation

NEW IN WAF 1.8.7
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* Fixed the default libdir installation suffix on Redhat 64-bit systems #1536
* Fixed the Python 2.6 detection on Redhat systems #1538
* Enabled gccdeps to work with clang
* Fixed the detection of clang from the gcc tools
* Added orig_run_str to help subclasses (do not use Task.hcode)
* Fixed the detection of older clang compilers versions
* NEC compiler support
* Enabled batched_cc.py to work with msvc too
* Enabled unity.py to process c files
* Faster dependency calculation in c_dumbpreproc
* New stracedeps example (cfg blog entry)
* Added support for xz compression in waf and waf dist (Python 3.5)

NEW IN WAF 1.8.6
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* Python file installation fixes
* Fix for classes containing utf-8 names
* Hide the progress bar when running waf -ppp
* Support more header extensions in subst/is_copy
* Handle non-string and non-list values in substitutions (subst)
* Show how to track build files timestamps to force partial rebuilds (build_file_tracker.py)
* Added a new extension to detect blender libraries
* Added extras/prefork.py, extras/preforkunix.py and extras/preforkjava.py
* Updated demos/d
* Updated demos/vala
* Updated playground/protobuf
* Updated playground/cython
* Updated playground/dynamic_headers
* Updated playground/netcache
* Qt5 detection improvements

NEW IN WAF 1.8.5
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* Enhanced Sun compiler detection #1510
* Fixed a regression in Emacs shell support #1511
* Fixed a regression in cross-directory builds (Linux only) #1512
* Executable wscript files #1517
* Generic script signing utility #1520

NEW IN WAF 1.8.4
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* Various improvements in stale.py
* More robust file scanning in Qt processing #1502
* More robust handling of build order implied by hidden dependencies #1506
* Run msvs on Python 3 #1503
* Biber update #1501
* Fixed the Python detection on Windows #1498

NEW IN WAF 1.8.2
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* Removed the modules c_* that were accidentally shipped and break pkg-config tests

NEW IN WAF 1.8.1
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* Re-added compatible option group names from waf 1.7 #1495
* Fixed bld(define='') splitting which was disabled by mistake

NEW IN WAF 1.8.0
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* Python 2.5 is now required
* Removed the Waf cache from the task level, use the netcache system
* Console handling improvements
* Properly-sized progress bar on windows
* Generic configuration tests
* Better unicode handling in scripts and in file names
* Shorter build outputs
* Prevent external static libraries propagation through uselib vars #1320
* LaTeX glossaries #1342 and multibib #1345
* Rst document processing
* Various improvements in the Python detection and processing
* Tons of bugfixes

