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+<?xml version="1.0"?>
+<!--
+     Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+     contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+     this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+     The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
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+    
+          http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+    
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+  -->
+<document>
+  <properties>
+    <title>Apache Standard Taglib Changes</title>
+  </properties>
+  <body>
+
+  <release version="1.2.1" date="2014-01-02" description="First release of our implementation of JSTL 1.2"/>
+  <release version="1.2.0" description="JSTL 1.2 implementation - failed vote"/>
+
+  <release version="1.1.2" date="2004-10-25" description="Minor bug fix update"/>
+  <release version="1.1.1" date="2004-07-20" description="Minor bug fix update"/>
+  <release version="1.1.0" date="2004-01-30" description="First official release of our implementation of JSTL 1.1"/>
+  <release version="1.1.0-B1" date="2003-09-25" description="early access (Beta 1) of our implementation of JSTL 1.1"/>
+
+  <release version="1.0.6" date="2004-07-20" description="Minor bugfix update"/>
+  <release version="1.0.5" date="2004-01-30" description="Bugfix update"/>
+  <release version="1.0.4" date="2003-09-25" description="Bugfix update"/>
+  <release version="1.0.3" date="2003-02-20" description="Minor bugfix update"/>
+  <release version="1.0.2" date="2002-10-13" description="Minor bugfix update"/>
+  <release version="1.0.1" date="2002-07-27" description="Minor bugfix update"/>
+  <release version="1.0.0" date="2002-06-21" description="Same JSTL implementation as was included in Sun's Web Services Developer Pack, version 1.0"/>
+
+  </body>
+</document>