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 ELinks 0.12pre5:
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+Released on 2009-07-08.
+
 * Debian bug 534835: Check the return values of some SpiderMonkey
   functions, to avoid crashes if out of memory.
 * minor bug 1017: To work around HTTP server bugs, disable