* May 2021: version 3.2

	It's been a decade since 3.0 was released, wherein I noted my
	intention to update ebfc to support 64-bit ELF in the near future.
	ebfc is the only program in ELF Kickers that creates an ELF file
	from scratch, rather than working with an existing ELF file, and
	this made it trickier to support both 32-bit and a 64-bit targets
	in one program. However, at this point in time, it is wholly
	justifiable to simply drop support for 32-bit targets entirely
	(particularly with a program like ebfc, which is more intended to
	be a learning tool than an actual utility). So that's what I did.

	Along the way, I reworked ebfc's code to make it a little clearer
	and more consistent, and one or two features were added that
	didn't make it into the original 2.0 version. And, as I did ten
	years ago with the rest of ELF Kickers, the code has been cleaned
	up to be warning-free with current compilers.

	Finally, this release contains a handful of fixes to elfls,
	elftoc, and infect -- mainly for crashes on malformed input files.

* November 2019: version 3.1a

	Another very minor update. This release includes a couple of bug
	fixes, and the --force-hex option to elftoc.

	Thanks to Aapo Rantalainen, Agostino Sarubbo, and Lars Lindqvist
	for bug reports and patches.
	
* November 2016: version 3.1

	It's been five years since the last version, and a handful of bug
	fixes (and one feature) have accumulated over that time. A quick
	rundown:

	- objres: Added --reference option to improve non-x86 support.
	- elftoc: Make signed chars explicit where needed.
	- elftoc: Bug fix in ELF header version check.
	- elfls: Bug fix in handling Elf32 on a 64-bit system.
	- Various changes to the Makefiles.
	- Fixes for some typos in the documentation and comments.

	Thanks to German Zyuzin, Lars Lindqvist, Douglas Mencken, Aapo
	Rantalainen, and Steven Honeyman (in no particular order) for bug
	reports and patches.

* November 2011: version 3.0a

	This is a very minor update.

	Sofian Brabez supplied me with information to help ELF Kickers
	compile under FreeBSD. I've gratefully incorporated his changes.

	Raphaël Huck reported that sstrip's alteration to the e_shentsize
	field is flagged as invalid by file(1). This has been fixed.

	infect now attempts to reset the infected file's mtime. Not
	important, but why not.
	
* May 2011: version 3.0

	After a decade hiatus, I finally took the plunge and updated this
	package. With some effort I've managed to get a new version out in
	time for the ten-year anniversary of the last update.

	The most important change: All the programs (except ebfc) have
	been updated to deal equally well with 32-bit and 64-bit ELF
	files. This has been a long time coming (though it had to wait
	until I had a 64-bit machine of my own to test on).

	A very simple library, elfrw, has been added which hides many of
	the differences between 32-bit and 64-bit ELF files, allowing the
	smaller programs to support both types of files without
	significant code changes.

	The program objres has been added to the collection.

	The sample program infect has been added to the collection.

	All of the old programs have been cleaned up to avoid the new gcc
	warnings, use getopt_long, and in general brought more in line
	with my current programming style.

	elftoc in particular has had several sections rewritten. The most
	important change is that the build process reads the local copy of
	elf.h to find out which ELF macros are available on the current
	installation, instead of relying on a hard-coded list included in
	the distribution. elftoc also required lots of nearly-duplicate
	code in order to support both 32-bit and 64-bit ELF files.

	Man pages have been added for the utilities that didn't have them,
	for the sake of consistency if nothing else.

	The tiny programs have been removed from ELF kickers. Not because
	I don't love them any less, but they tend to suffer more quickly
	than the rest of the code from changes to Linux. In the last ten
	years I've had to modify nearly all of them at least once to keep
	them working with current kernels.

	(ebfc is the only utility that has not been updated for 64-bit. I
	intend to remedy this in the near future.)
	
* May 2001: version 2.0a

	Two small bug fixes, reported to me by people who downloaded
	version 2.0, the details of which are lost to history.
	
* April 2001: version 2.0

	I began spelunking in the system header files <elf.h> and
	<linux/elf.h> again, and discovered a large number of new
	definitions. I realized that the ELF standard could be going
	through major changes, and that having a version number is really
	necessary.

	elftoc updated to understand some of these new additions, and
	elsewhere restructured so as to make it easier to update it again
	once I understand the rest of them.

	Fixes for elftoc bugs that I noticed during the rewrite.

	elfls updated similarly to elftoc.

	Minor rewrite of sstrip to make the code more airtight and
	aesthetically pleasing.
	
* March 2001

	rebind added to ELF Kickers.

	date and snake added to the tiny collection.

	cat removed from the tiny collection (too uninteresting).

	Cleaned up all tiny programs and made them more stylistically
	consistent.

	Minor bug fix in elftoc.

	Documentation cleanups.

* February 2001

	Five of the tiny programs did not work under 2.2.17 and later 2.2
	kernels due to a change in how Linux checks the ELF header.
	(Thanks to Francois-Rene Rideau, who pointed this out to me. Oddly
	enough, this new restriction does not seem to have made it into
	the 2.4.0 kernel. I am unsure if the change is confined to the 2.2
	versions, or if it will resurface in a later kernel.) I succeeded
	in fixing two of the programs without sacrificing compatibility
	with 2.0 kernels or increasing the size. For the other three, I
	added new versions specifically for 2.2.17 (et al).

* January 2001

	keepalive added to the tiny collection.

	Removed -W option from the Makefile for ebfc (I thought I had done
	this already).

	New feature added to ebfc -- namely, the acceptance of compressed
	source files -- just for the heck of it.

	This file added.

* August 2000
	
	After installing a 2.2 kernel, I discovered that changes to the
	system header files and a new warning in gcc 2.95.2 caused several
	of the programs to generate numerous compiler warnings and errors.
	The errors were caused by a benign redefinition of a macro, and
	were suppressed by changing the inclusion order of the system
	header files in question. The warnings were due to my taking
	advantage of of the standard feature of omitting trailing
	initializers in the definition of a structure, and were suppressed
	by omitting the -W gcc option in the Makefiles, leaving just
	-Wall.

	ls added to the tiny collection.

	Bug fixes and minor improvements to the documentation.

* July 1999
	
	Initial release. Main programs: elfls, elftoc, sstrip, ebfc. In
	the tiny collection: true/false, hello, fgconsole, hexdump, cat,
	factor.
