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0.30  2023-08-22 22:29:58 EDT
  - Document the new prebuilt binary feature
  - Make the binary download feature not the default for the time being
  - Improve the binary download process not to throw an error when not found
  - Move --build-reusable to a global option --build-reusable-perl

0.29  2023-04-18 23:32:58 EDT
  - Add support to install from a cpanfile without using Deploy
  - Add feature to download prebuilt binries for popular linux distros
  - Improve SSL handling
  - Fix bug where install couldn't handle modules with names starting with git
  - Fix bug where install couldn't handle modules starting with git
  - Fix bug that prevented reusable perls from being threaded

0.28  2021-08-12 23:26:06 EDT
  - Include core dependencies, because RedHat. Fixes GH#20
  - Be more forgiving of the limitations of the underlying OS
  - Don't fail a test because the optional --jobs option because make doesn't
    understand -h. Fixes GH#19

0.27  2021-08-10 22:53:01 EDT
  - Add the option to build and install relocatable binary perl archives
  - Add the --jobs option and try to detect if make doesn't support it
  - Correct an off-by-one error on the log's month
  - Be more clear when Makefile.PL or Build.PL couldn't be found and avoid
    dumping useless and/or binary data to the screen GH#15
  - Add file/line directives to the built script to aid diagnosis and errors
  - Improve tests to skip https requests when https is unavailable GH#14
  - Improve error reporting and error contents

0.26  2018-11-09 00:36:48 EST
  - Use the full form of File::Temp->new for older perls. GH#11
  - Consolidate use of CoreList so we can also check if a module is deprecated
    and act like it's not core if it is deprecated. GH#12
  - Bug fix for the tests that attempted to install Test::More when core perl
    had the same version as cpan. Fixes perl rt #133617

0.25  2018-10-17 22:45:47 EDT
  - Add fixes for fetch_file that was preventing successful testing on
    cpantesters, including the difference with BSD's tar that an empty input
    is not an error.

0.24  2018-10-08 23:12:15 EDT
  - Display the path to the log file (GH#8)
  - Add the --shared-lib option (GH#8)
  - Improve restart_script to work better without --directory (GH#8)
  - Copy App::MechaCPAN to the new locations if it doesn't already exist
    in the destination directory (GH#8)
  - Thanks to James Pattie/pattieja1 for the changes and testing with GH#8
  - Logs now have a much more humane name that includes a timestamp
  - The amount of random, temporary files, both during processing as well as
    after exceptions, has been reduced
  - System tar will now be used before Archive::Tar if possible
  - A simple heuristic has been added to prevent local/ being confused as the
    project directory.
  - Typo fix via Tim Heaney/oylenshpeegul (GH#7)

0.23  2018-03-05 00:29:51 EST
  - Fix a bug where if a path has a perl like verion in it would cause t/13
    to fail.
  - Added some diag statements to help track down other cpantesters issues

0.22  2018-03-02 10:02:08 EST
  - Hotfix a bug with the minimum git test so it uses a known version (the
    minimum we support) instead of the version the machine happens to have

0.21  2018-03-02 00:37:55 EST
  - Having two distributions list the same module in provides is no longer
    immediately fatal.
  - Add the smart-tests option to installing perl
  - Make the code surrounding git more robust and refuse to use use any
    version of git < 1.7.7. (GH#6)
  - Fix --skip-lib and --skip-local so they now actually turn a feature off