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+* Noteworthy features of release 0.1 (????-??-??)
+
+Features of the shell
+
+  - Sophisticated enough to be used to build Bash.
+  - Has a nice colorized prompt.
+  - Includes all of the POSIX-specified "special" built-ins expect for
+    'times'.
+  - Includes about half of the POSIX-specified "regular" built-ins
+    (see 'gash/built-ins.scm' for details).
+
+Features of the programming interface
+
+  - Parses Shell scripts into an AST.
+  - Provides a rudimentary interface for writing Shell-like Scheme
+    scripts.