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 * Noteworthy changes in release ?.? (????-??-??) [?]
 
+** Improvements
+
+  md5sum --check now supports the -r format from the corresponding BSD tool.
+  This also affects sha1sum, sha224sum, sha384sum and sha512sum.
+
 
 * Noteworthy changes in release 8.13 (2011-09-08) [stable]