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Version 96, December 2017
    - ProhibitUnknownBackslash allow for non-ascii in strings, as
      reported by Mark Fowler RT#123922

Version 95, October 2017
    - RequireFinalSemicolon also sort{} blocks are an expression

Version 94, June 2017
    - ProhibitUnknownBackslash \N also Perl 5.16, as reported by
      Ed Davis RT#122064

Version 93, April 2017
    - some doubtfulness in Makefile.PL meta bits

Version 92, November 2016
    - ProhibitPOSIXimport oops, don't use // operator, per paul RT#118959

Version 91, November 2016
    - RequireFinalCut allow no blank line before =cut, as reported by
      Andy Lester RT#118722
    - RequireLinkedURLs allow example.com

Version 90, March 2015
    - PerlMinimumVersionAndWhy actually check Modern::Perl
    - ProhibitNullStatements beware of extra stuff after try/catch

Version 89, January 2015
    - PerlMinimumVersionAndWhy experiment Modern::Perl meaning 5.10,
      as proposed by Ed Avis RT#100290
    - RequireFinalSemicolon recognise try/catch of Try.pm, TryCatch.pm
      and Syntax::Feature::Try, as proposed by Ed Avis RT#100291.
      Various List::Util functions as expression blocks.
    - RequireTrailingCommaAtNewline exception for single here-documents,
      as proposed by Ed Avis RT#100292
    - ProhibitNullStatements report null ; on try/catch, and look
      inside try/catch/finally blocks

Version 88, November 2014
    - ConstantBeforeLt oops again, PPI incompatibility too much, must
      do and depend on its 1.220

Version 87, November 2014
    - ConstantBeforeLt really allow for PPI

Version 86, November 2014
    - ConstantBeforeLt allow for PPI incompatible change to ->prototype()

Version 85, May 2014
    - oops forgot Pod::Escapes in PREREQ_PM, per Petr Pisar RT#95440

Version 84, May 2014
    - new Documentation::RequireFilenameMarkup

Version 83, May 2014
    - PerlMinimumVersionAndWhy new 5.10 -e -x stacked filetest per
      Kent Fredric RT#95208

Version 82, April 2014
    - ProhibitAdjacentLinks, ProhibitLinkToSelf,
      ProhibitParagraphTwoDots, ProhibitUnbalancedParens,
      ProhibitVerbatimMarkup, RequireLinkedURLs check =begin blocks
      only for POD-type ":"
    - ProhibitBadAproposMarkup check =begin :man and :roff only
    - ProhibitDuplicateSeeAlso ignore all =begin blocks

Version 81, April 2014
    - ProhibitAdjacentLinks fix warnings when internal and external
      links adjacent, as reported by Mike O'Regan RT#94318
    - ConstantPragmaHash and ConstantLeadingUnderscore pass ->content
      to version.pm as it enquires too much into a PPI object ref,
      per RT#92100 dmacks and ppisar

Version 80, July 2013
    - new policy Documentation::ProhibitParagraphEndComma
    - tests UnexpandedSpecialLiteral.t don't exercise __PACKAGE__ =>
      across newline since that might be going to change in Perl 5.20,
      as reported by Reini Urban RT#87307

Version 79, March 2013
    - fix ProhibitFatCommaNewline load version.pm for perl 5.8, as
      reported by paul RT#83990

Version 78, March 2013
    - new policies CodeLayout::ProhibitIfIfSameLine,
                   CodeLayout::ProhibitFatCommaNewline

Version 77, February 2013
    - new policy Documentation::ProhibitDuplicateHeadings
    - fix POD parse losing violations across =cut gaps

Version 76, January 2013
    - RequireNumericVersion explicit check for exponential strings "1e6" 

Version 75, November 2012
    - ProhibitEmptyCommas fix for [{%a},{}] reported by Mike O'Regan
      RT#81390

Version 74, October 2012
    - tests RequireNumericVersion skip version.pm 1e6 uncertain quite yet

Version 73, June 2012
    - tests fix for File::Temp in perl pre-5.10

Version 72, June 2012
    - TextDomainPlaceholders fix #line regexp plain \2 for perl before 5.10

Version 71, June 2012
    - RequireLinkedURLs - skip "=begin html" etc blocks
    - RequireFinalCut - cut not required if only =begin foo/=end foo block

Version 70, May 2012
    - new policy Documentation::RequireFinalCut

Version 69, January 2012
    - new policy ValuesAndExpressions::ProhibitDuplicateHashKeys
    - PerlMinimumVersionAndWhy
      - new keys @array, values @array and each @array are 5.12
      - new eval '#line' with #line the very first thing is 5.8
    - Perl::Critic::Pulp::Utils new elem_is_comma_operator()

Version 68, January 2012
    - RequireNumericVersion
      - recognise fully-qualified $Foo::VERSION
      - recognise "$VERSION = eval $VERSION" trick

Version 67, December 2011
    - RequireTrailingCommaAtNewline allow "return(123 newline );"

Version 66, December 2011
    - new policy Documentation::ProhibitDuplicateSeeAlso

Version 65, September 2011
    - PerlMinimumVersionAndWhy
      - new UNIVERSAL.pm methods in 5.004 and 5.10
      - new "Foo->$method" no-args without parens is 5.6 

Version 64, August 2011
    - fix ProhibitLinkToSelf warnings on no L<> display part

Version 63, August 2011
    - new policy Documentation::ProhibitLinkToSelf

Version 62, July 2011
    - Makefile.PL depends PPI 1.212 for literal()

Version 61, June 2011
    - new policies ProhibitArrayAssignAref, RequireTrailingCommaAtNewline,
      ProhibitUnbalancedParens

Version 60, May 2011
    - PerlMinimumVersionAndWhy new 5.6 open(my $fh,...)

Version 59, May 2011
    - tests don't die on a deliberately induced version.pm warning

Version 58, May 2011
    - new policy Documentation::ProhibitParagraphTwoDots

Version 57, May 2011
    - ProhibitUnknownBackslash
        - allow \: etc stopping interpolation
        - \N only when "use charnames" in scope

Version 56, April 2011
    - new policy Documentation::ProhibitAdjacentLinks
    - PerlMinimumVersionAndWhy new 5.6 syswrite() length optional

Version 55, April 2011
    - PerlMinimumVersionAndWhy add 5.8 pack() "[123]" brackets

Version 54, April 2011
    - PerlMinimumVersionAndWhy
        - new check 5.005 for "my (undef,$x)",
        - fix for "delete $array[0]{'key'}" is hash not array
        - document 5.8 for "=>" across newline
        - document 5.004 for "$coderef->()" call and "sysseek()" func

Version 53, April 2011
    - new policy Documentation::RequireLinkedURLs

Version 52, April 2011
    - new policy Compatibility::ConstantLeadingUnderscore
    - Perl::Critic::Pulp::Utils new elem_in_BEGIN()

Version 51, April 2011
    - depend on Pod::MinimumVersion 50 for fix to =item C<< >> detection

Version 50, March 2011
    - fix Compatibility::PodMinimumVersion to use its documented
      "above_version", as reported by Mark Gardner
    - fix Perl::Critic::Pulp::Utils parameter_parse_version() to store
      with __set_parameter_value(), so field "_foo" not "foo"

Version 49, March 2011
    - split Pod::MinimumVersion to its own distribution

Version 48, March 2011
    - PerlMinimumVersionAndWhy some bits now in Perl::MinimumVersion itself

Version 47, February 2011
    - fix Makefile.PL for perl 5.6
    - UnexpandedSpecialLiteral allow fat comma after newline
    - PerlMinimumVersionAndWhy report pragmas too

Version 46, January 2011
    - new policy ValuesAndExpressions::RequireNumericVersion

Version 45, December 2010
    - oops, tests really fix ProhibitVerbatimMarkup.t

Version 44, December 2010
    - tests fix ProhibitVerbatimMarkup.t some version number checks

Version 43, September 2010
    - test manifest only as an author test
    - tests drop backslash of more wide chars which bomb on 5.8.x, maybe

Version 42, September 2010
    - tests avoid warnings from Pod::Parser 1.37 on empty =encoding
    - tests and docs Perl::Critic 1.110 for annotations past __END__

Version 41, July 2010
    - TextDomainPlaceholders allow literal number for __xn() count

Version 40, July 2010
    - new policy Modules::ProhibitModuleShebang

Version 39, July 2010
    - PerlMinimumVersionAndWhy add
	- 0b110011 binary literals new in 5.006
    - new policy Documentation::ProhibitVerbatimMarkup

Version 38, June 2010
    - new policy CodeLayout::RequireFinalSemicolon

Version 37, May 2010
    - tests don't try wide chars in PPI input string, doesn't work in
      5.8.6 and not sure if it's meant to

Version 36, May 2010
    - PerlMinimumVersionAndWhy add
	- "foreach my $foo" lexical loop variable new in 5.004
	- "$coderef->()" call new in 5.004

Version 35, April 2010
    - PerlMinimumVersionAndWhy add
	- special __PACKAGE__ new in 5.004
	- "use VERSION" or "use MODULE VERSION" new in 5.004

Version 34, April 2010
    - new policy ValuesAndExpressions::ProhibitBarewordDoubleColon
    - PerlMinimumVersionAndWhy new option skip_checks

Version 33, April 2010
    - ProhibitBadAproposMarkup and Pod::MinimumVersion quietly ignore
      POD parse errors

Version 32, March 2010
    - PerlMinimumVersionAndWhy add
        - exists() and delete() subs and arrays new in 5.006
        - Foo::Bar:: double-colon bareword new in 5.005

Version 31, February 2010
    - ProhibitUnknownBackslash fix for interpolated "$#array"

Version 30, January 2010
    - PerlMinimumVersionAndWhy new pack/unpack format string checks

Version 29, January 2010
    - fix dependency, P::C 1.084 for highest_explicit_perl_version()

Version 28, January 2010
    - new policy Compatibility::ProhibitUnixDevNull

Version 27, December 2009
    - ProhibitUnknownBackslash also \c control chars

Version 26, December 2009
    - new policy ValuesAndExpressions::ProhibitUnknownBackslash

Version 25, December 2009
    - new policy ValuesAndExpressions::ProhibitFiletest_f

Version 24, December 2009
    - new policy Documentation::ProhibitBadAproposMarkup

Version 23, November 2009
    - PodMinimumVersion 5.004 for =for, =begin, =end

Version 22, September 2009
    - new policy Modules::ProhibitPOSIXimport
    - TextDomainPlaceholders -- allow non-ascii keys

Version 21, August 2009
    - PodMinimumVersion -- update the location offset hack

Version 20, August 2009
    - PerlMinimumVersionAndWhy -- add report qr//m needs 5.10
    - fix some "use" module version cases
    - ProhibitNullStatements -- workaround incompatible changes in PPI 1.205

Version 19, June 2009
    - new policy Compatibility::PerlMinimumVersionAndWhy
    - new policy Compatibility::PodMinimumVersion

Version 18, June 2009
    - new policy Compatibility::Gtk2Constants
    - TextDomainPlaceholders -- check __px() and __npx(), and try to
      notice a missing count arg in __nx(), __xn() and __npx()

Version 17, May 2009
    - TextDomainUnused -- recognise __p() etc new in libintl-perl
      1.17, as advised by Guido Flohr

Version 16, April 2009
    - new policy Modules::ProhibitUseQuotedVersion

Version 15, March 2009
    - new policy Miscellanea::TextDomainUnused

Version 14, January 2009
    - ConstantPragmaHash -- fix for document with no includes at all

Version 13, January 2009
    - ConstantPragmaHash -- fix location reported

Version 12, January 2009
    - new policy Compatibility::ConstantPragmaHash

Version 11, December 2008
    - oops, in the tests PPI 1.203 doesn't like an empty document

Version 10, December 2008
    - new policy Documentation::RequireEndBeforeLastPod

Version 9, December 2008
    - new policy ValuesAndExpressions::ProhibitEmptyCommas

Version 8, October 2008
    - UnexpandedSpecialLiteral -- rename from LiteralSpecialLiteral,
      for clarity

Version 7, August 2008
    - new policy LiteralSpecialLiteral

Version 6, August 2008
    - new policy Miscellanea::TextDomainPlaceholders

Version 5, July 2008
    - new policy ValuesAndExpressions::NotWithCompare

Version 4, July 2008
    - another go at the CPAN indexing

Version 3, July 2008
    - fixes for CPAN indexing

Version 2, July 2008
    - new toplevel module Perl::Critic::Pulp
    - ConstantBeforeLt -- depends on prototyping, not perl version

Version 1, June 2008
    - the first version, with ConstantBeforeLt and ProhibitNullStatements