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+22 September 2011. Summary of changes for version 20110922:
+
+This release is available at www.acpica.org/downloads
+
+0) ACPI 5.0 News:
+
+Support for ACPI 5.0 in ACPICA has been underway for several months and will 
+be released at the same time that ACPI 5.0 is officially released.
+
+The ACPI 5.0 specification is on track for release in the next few months.
+ 
+1) ACPICA Core Subsystem:
+
+Fixed a problem where the maximum sleep time for the Sleep() operator was 
+intended to be limited to two seconds, but was inadvertently limited to 20 
+seconds instead.
+
+Linux and Unix makefiles: Added header file dependencies to ensure correct 
+generation of ACPICA core code and utilities. Also simplified the makefiles 
+considerably through the use of the vpath variable to specify search paths. 
+ACPICA BZ 924.
+
+2) iASL Compiler/Disassembler and Tools:
+
+iASL: Implemented support to check the access length for all fields created to 
+access named Resource Descriptor fields. For example, if a resource field is 
+defined to be two bits, a warning is issued if a CreateXxxxField() is used 
+with an incorrect bit length. This is implemented for all current resource 
+descriptor names. ACPICA BZ 930.
+  
+Disassembler: Fixed a byte ordering problem with the output of 24-bit and 56-
+bit integers.
+
+iASL: Fixed a couple of issues associated with variable-length package 
+objects. 1) properly handle constants like One, Ones, Zero -- do not make a 
+VAR_PACKAGE when these are used as a package length. 2) Allow the VAR_PACKAGE 
+opcode (in addition to PACKAGE) when validating object types for predefined 
+names.
+
+iASL: Emit statistics for all output files (instead of just the ASL input and 
+AML output). Includes listings, hex files, etc.
+
+iASL: Added -G option to the table compiler to allow the compilation of custom 
+ACPI tables. The only part of a table that is required is the standard 36-byte 
+ACPI header.
+
+AcpiXtract: Ported to the standard ACPICA environment (with ACPICA headers), 
+which also adds correct 64-bit support. Also, now all output filenames are 
+completely lower case.
+
+AcpiExec: Ignore any non-AML tables (tables other than DSDT or SSDT) when 
+loading table files. A warning is issued for any such tables. The only 
+exception is an FADT. This also fixes a possible fault when attempting to load 
+non-AML tables. ACPICA BZ 932.
+
+AcpiHelp: Added the AccessAs and Offset operators. Fixed a problem where a 
+missing table terminator could cause a fault when using the -p option.
+
+AcpiSrc: Fixed a possible divide-by-zero fault when generating file 
+statistics.
+
+3) Example Code and Data Size
+
+These are the sizes for the OS-independent acpica.lib produced by the 
+Microsoft Visual C++ 9.0 32-bit compiler. The debug version of the code 
+includes the debug output trace mechanism and has a much larger code and data 
+size.
+
+  Previous Release (VC 9.0):
+    Non-Debug Version:  90.2K Code, 23.9K Data, 114.1K Total
+    Debug Version:     165.6K Code, 68.4K Data, 234.0K Total
+  Current Release (VC 9.0):
+    Non-Debug Version:  90.2K Code, 23.9K Data, 114.1K Total
+    Debug Version:     165.6K Code, 68.4K Data, 234.0K Total
+
+
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 23 June 2011. Summary of changes for version 20110623:
 
 1) ACPI CA Core Subsystem: