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@@ -25,6 +25,14 @@ Version 2.24
   1990s and never part of POSIX.  Application code should use the int type
   instead of “union wait”.
 
+* A new NSS action is added to facilitate large distributed system
+  administration.  The action, MERGE, allows remote user stores like LDAP
+  to be merged into local user stores like /etc/groups in order to provide
+  easy to use, updated, and managed sets of merged credentials.  The new
+  action can be used by configuring it in /etc/nsswitch.conf:
+  group: files [SUCCESS=merge] nis
+  Implemented by Stephen Gallagher (Red Hat).
+
 Security related changes:
 
 * An unnecessary stack copy in _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r was removed.  It