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+2009-02-05  Peter Stephenson  <pws@csr.com>
+
+	* 26513: README: note that addition of ".." in completion
+	was broken.
+
 2009-02-01  Andrey Borzenkov <bor@zsh.org>
 
 	* 26504: Doc/Zsh/options.yo: document that LOCAL_OPTIONS
@@ -11076,5 +11081,5 @@
 
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 * This is used by the shell to define $ZSH_PATCHLEVEL
-* $Revision: 1.4547 $                         
+* $Revision: 1.4548 $                         
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@@ -33,8 +33,16 @@ details, see the documentation.
 Possible incompatibilities
 ---------------------------
 
-This section documents incompatibilities in the shell since the 4.2
-series of releases.
+In some 4.2.X releases of zsh, the completion system added a ".."  as a
+trial completion whenever completing directories.  This was a bug: as
+documented in the zshcompsys manual, this feature needs to be turned on by
+a style:
+
+  zstyle ':completion:*' special-dirs true
+
+
+The rest of this section documents incompatibilities in the shell since the
+4.2 series of releases.
 
 In previous releases of the shell, builtin commands and precommand
 modifiers that did not accept options also did not recognize the