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+Tue Dec 15 18:04:04 2015  Martin Duerst  <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp>
+
+	* NEWS: added news about EBCDIC encoding
+
 Tue Dec 15 17:57:57 2015  Martin Duerst  <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp>
 
 	* enc/ebcdic.h, enc/trans/ebcdic.trans,
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   * Hash#<=, Hash#<, Hash#>=, Hash#> [Feature #10984]
   * Hash#to_proc [Feature #11653]
 
+* Encoding
+
+  * new Encoding::IBM037 (alias ebcdic-cp-us; dummy)
+
 * IO
 
   * new mode flag File::SHARE_DELETE is available.