+* Major changes in 9.0.0
+
+** New command to re-order channels is added (ueno)
+ See the doc string of riece-command-reorder-channels.
+
+** Complete multiple channels when joining (ueno)
+
+* Major changes in 8.0.0
+
+** Extend URL regexp used in riece-url (ueno)
+
+** Use lexical binding everywhere (ueno)
+
+** Update doc/ptexinfmt.el (kaoru)
+
+* Major changes in 7.0.3
+
+** Fix freeze behavior when the cursor is on a channel buffer (ueno)
+ riece-shrink-buffer had a bug which moves the cursor to the top or
+ bottom of buffer even when the buffer is frozen.
+
+** Fix out-of-tree build (kaoru, ueno)
+ There were some code not passing srcdir correctly.
+
+** Remove old-style backquotes for Emacs 24 (ueno)
+
+* Major changes in 7.0.2
+
+** Fix bug of reading IRC logs (ueno)
+ If coding-system was not specified when writing log to file, Riece
+ added extra ".nil" to the filename. That causes erronous behavior
+ on reading the logs back.
+
+** Fix control sequence parsing (ueno)
+
+* Major changes in 7.0.1
+
+** Fix compilation error on Emacs 24. (ueno)
+ Emacs 24 does not have make-local-hook.
+
+** Suppress byte-compile warnings. (kaoru)
+ Suppress "`save-excursion' defeated by `set-buffer'".
+
+** Support "make distcheck". (ueno)
+
+* Major changes in 7.0.0
+
+** Mailing list address changed to riece-discuss@nongnu.org.
+
+** Fix build for XEmacs 21.5. (ueno)
+
+** Fix coloring riece-channel-list-indicator on mode-line. (ueno)
+
+* Major changes in 6.1.0
+
+** Revert to use setq instead of Custom for saved settings. (ueno)
+
+** Add-on management commands can now be usable from the Command buffer. (kaoru)
+
+* Major changes in 6.0.0
+
+** New add-on riece-desktop-notify. (bg66)
+
+** Fix Custom-based setting mechanism.
+
+* Major changes in 5.0.0
+
+** Use Custom for saved settings. (ueno)
+
+** Use stock icons for toolbar. (ueno)
+
+** Follow the procedure recommended in RFC2812 when making a
+ connection to the server. This change is needed for some IRC
+ servers including TwitterIrcGateway. (ueno)
+
+** Allow non-ASCII realname. (KASUGA Toru)
+
+** Fixed a corner case bug of riece-keywords settings. (Takeru Naito)
+
+* Major changes in 4.0.0
+
+** New add-on riece-twitter. (ueno)
+
+** riece-rdcc can now specify sending ports. (ueno)
+
+* Major changes in 3.1.2
+
+** Message catalog. (ueno)
+
+* Major changes in 3.1.1
+
+** riece-async works again. (ueno)
+
+** riece-shrink-buffer is now enabled by default. (ueno)
+
+** New window layout "spiral". (URABE Shyouhei)
+
+* Major changes in 3.1.0
+
+** Prevent reentrace of message handlers. This might fix some long
+ standing bug in message handling. (ueno)
+
+** Removed dependency on the calc package from riece-ndcc.el. (ueno)
+
+** Fixed a bug in the 353 message handler. (ueno)
+
+* Major changes in 3.0.0
+
+** Changed the meaning of riece-username. If you set this option, you
+ will need to set riece-realname instead. (ueno)
+
+** Cause an error if a user requests to close already closed server. (yoichi)
+
+** New add-on riece-epg.el, which enables secure conversation using
+ GnuPG. (ueno)
+
+** Fixed a couple of bugs in inviting users. (Steve Youngs)
+
+** Fixed a redisplay bug when a user leaves a channel. (ueno)
+
+** Reverted the default value of riece-alias-alternate-separator to
+ "@". (ueno)
+
+* Major changes in 2.0.2
+
+** Fixed C-c l (riece-command-list) behavior. It didn't display
+ channel TOPIC correctly. (ueno)
+
+** Don't alter case of user/channel names when completing user
+ input. (ueno)
+
+** Changed default value of alternate separator of a channel name and an
+ IRC server name to "%". (ueno)
+
+* Major changes in 2.0.1
+
+** If there is a message in previously selected channel, Riece 2.0.0
+ doesn't treat it as an unread channel. 2.0.1 fixes it. (ueno)
+
+** New add-on riece-xfaceb.el, which displays X-Face/Colour Face in
+ IRC buffers. (Steve Youngs)
+
+* Major changes in 2.0.0
+
+** Support multiple coding-systems on a server.
+ You can use different coding-systems for different channels. (ueno)
+ For example:
+ (setq riece-channel-coding-system-alist
+ '(("#euc-jp" . euc-jp)
+ ("#utf-8 irc.freenode.net" . utf-8)))
+
+** Support uninstall, unload (dangerous) operations for add-ons.
+ Now you can fully customize riece-addons in the add-on listing
+ mode. (ueno)
+
+** New mechanism for executing Ruby programs. To use it, see the
+ commentary section of riece-ruby.el. (ueno)
+
+** New add-on riece-eval-ruby.el, which regards user input prefixed by
+ ",ruby " as a Ruby program and sends the result to the current
+ channel. (ueno)
+
+** New add-on riece-shrink-buffer.el, which now takes care of periodic
+ buffer shrinking. If you have set riece-max-buffer-size, you will
+ need to enable the riece-shrink-buffer add-on in the add-on listing
+ mode. (ueno)
+
+** Don't signal an error when a user is quitting, and who has joined a
+ channel where you left. (ueno)
+
+** When saving a log file, suffix the name of the coding-system used
+ onto the filename. This will avoid mojibake even
+ riece-log-coding-system is not set. (ueno)
+
+** While traversing channel list with C-c g, offer channels in order
+ of precedence where they have newer unread messages. (ueno)
+
+** Allow "@" instead of " " as a separator of a channel name and an
+ IRC server name. (ueno)
+
+** Rewrite the Japanese manual (riece-ja.texi) for IRC & Emacs
+ newbies. (ueno)
+
+** Allow users to hide *Others* buffer. (ueno)
+
+** Use seperate buffer to store debugging output. (ueno)
+
+** Added new make rule for byte-compiling elisp files individually.
+ To use it, after configure, do "make compile-individually" in
+ lisp/. (ueno)
+
+** Include a document for developers (doc/HACKING{,.ja}) (ueno)
+
+* Major changes in 1.0.8
+
+** Mitigate file locking scheme of riece-log. (ueno)
+
+** Format idle seconds in human readable form. (ueno)
+
+** Separate riece-obarray into riece-channel-obarray and
+ riece-user-obarray. (kaoru)
+
+** Fixed bugs caused by mishandling of channel names (which should be
+ case insensitive.) (ueno)
+
+** Support SXEmacs version names. (Steve Youngs)
+
+** Support CTCP TIME. (Steve Youngs)
+
+** Ignore directories under ~/.riece/addons. (kaoru)
+
+** Fixed wrong-number-of-arguments error on riece-command-part. (yoichi)
+
+** Fixed a bug which assumes existence of ~/.riece/addons when
+ startup. (ueno)
+