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+Ngspice-30, Jan 1st, 2019
+============
+
+- New features:
+    + VDMOS device model has been overhauled extensively
+    + Add pre-defined variable controlswait to enable running .control sections
+      after the simulation has finished (shared ngspice only)
+    + Add an icon to the MS Windows GUI build
+    + Enable more reliable memory usage data
+    + Support libtinfo
+    + add rotation angle to text output, vertcally aligned text for Postscript
+      and Windows y-axis plot labels
+    + enable postscript output for extended ascii. Currently only Western
+      European latin-1 (ISO/IEC 8859-1) encoding is supported
+    + Ancient Xgraph code removed
+
+- Bug fixes:
+    + many bugs fixed (bug tracker nos. 253, 332, 337, 368, 374, 375, 376, 377, 378,
+      379, 380, 381, 384, 385, 386)
+    + memory leaks removed
+
 Ngspice-29, Sept 30th, 2018
 ============