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+Version 0.9.0
+=============
+
+MDB Tools is under new management! Update your bookmarks and tell your favorite
+search engine that this is our new home on the WWW:
+
+    https://github.com/mdbtools/mdbtools
+
+MDB Tools 0.9.0 builds off the fork of cyberemissary on GitHub, collects many
+years of unapplied patches, and includes a number of internal improvements.
+Besides a host of security fixes, GLib is now completely optional, files can
+be opened completely in-memory, and many global variables have been eliminated
+to facilitate thread safety.
+
+The core library, libmdb, is believed to be thread-safe in the sense that
+several handles can be opened simultaneously and passed between threads.
+However, individual handles are NOT thread-safe, so don't try to do work
+on a single handle from multiple threads without implementing your own
+locking mechanism.
+
+The auxiliary libraries, libmdbsql and ODBC, still have some non-reentrant
+function calls. Thread safety is not promised, though the situation is
+significantly improved from the 0.7 days.
+
+The ABI has some slight changes (mostly having to do with struct layouts) so
+you'll need to bump your SO numbers and such. The main changes to the API are
+the introduction of a new function for in-memory parsing:
+
+  MdbHandle *mdb_open_buffer(void *buffer, size_t len, MdbFileFlags flags);
+
+And the modification of the "mdb_set_date_fmt" function to include a handle
+parameter, so that date formats can be set in a non-global fashion:
+
+  void mdb_set_date_fmt(MdbHandle *mdb, const char *);
+
+The above function is the most common reason that old projects will fail to
+compile on 0.9, and the fix is straightforward.
+
+This release introduces a new CLI tool (mdb-queries) and deprecates mdb-array,
+mdb-header, and mdb-parsecsv. Several man pages have been added or otherwise
+brought up to date.
+
+The GNOME-based GUI tool that formerly shipped with MDB Tools has been moved to
+a separate project, here:
+
+    https://github.com/mdbtools/gmdb2
+
+It seems to compile but should probably be classified as abandonware. The
+project uses a deprecated GUI toolkit, and as such gmdb2 is no longer included
+in Linux distros that used to carry it.
+
 Version 0.7.1
 =============
 autogen.sh is no more. Use "autoreconf -if" to bootstrap the configuration.
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 Welcome to the exciting world of MDB Tools! MDB Tools is a set of programs to
 help you extract data from Microsoft Access files in various settings.
 
-After several years of neglect, MDB Tools is under new management as of 2020.
-Update your bookmarks and tell your favorite search engine that this is the new
-address:
-
-    https://github.com/mdbtools/mdbtools
-
-A brief history: the last *official* release (version 0.7.1) occurred in 2016.
-[cyberemissary](https://github.com/cyberemissary) (whose work this fork is
-based on) made a release in December 2018 and called it 0.8.2. In September
-2020, @brianb moved his repository to the current address, and gave
-administrative access to @evanmiller, who acts as the present maintainer.
-
-An official 0.9 release is planned for late 2020. Areas of improvement since
-the 0.7/0.8 days:
-
-- [x] Security / stability / fuzz testing
-- [x] Thread safety
-- [x] In-memory database API
-- [x] GLib is now optional
-- [x] Improved ODBC compliance
-- [x] Continuous integration with Travis and AppVeyor
-- [x] New `mdb-queries` tool
-
-The rest of this README explains what you can find in the project, how to
-install it, and how to contribute.
-
 # Components
 
 The major pieces of MDB Tools are: