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-This is what's new and changed in the c-ares 1.4.1 release:
+This is what's new and changed in the c-ares 1.5.0 release:
 
- o 
+ o SONAME bump to a few API and ABI breaking changes:
+   - ares_host_callback()
+   - ares_nameinfo_callback()
+   - ares_parse_a_reply()
+   - ares_parse_aaaa_reply()
+
+ o two valgrind reports were silenced
+ o ares_save_options() fix
+ o do DNS retries even on TCP connections
+ o correctly clear sockets from the fd_set in several functions
+ o always wait on TCP events to detect connect closures
+ o new socket options: ARES_OPT_SOCK_SNDBUF and ARES_OPT_SOCK_RCVBUF
+ o made the query callbacks receive the number of timeouts that happened during
+   the execution of a query
+ o don't skip a server if it's the only one
+ o segfault when generating a DNS "Transaction ID" under low memory conditions
+ o ares_strerror() segfault fix
+ o added copyright texts to a few places that were missing them
 
 Thanks go to these friendly people for their efforts and contributions:
 
- 
+ Vlad Dinulescu, Brad House, Steinar H. Gunderson, Yang Tse
 
 Have fun!