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@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
   N lines (bytes) at the end of the file
 - md5sum --check now accepts the output of the BSD md5sum program, e.g.,
   MD5 (f) = d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e
+- date -d DATE can now parse a DATE string like May-23-2003.
 
 ** Bug fixes
 - tail -f is no longer subject to a race condition that could make it