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diff --git a/libevent.changes b/libevent.changes
index 76fad40..7212335 100644
--- a/libevent.changes
+++ b/libevent.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,47 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Mon Mar 16 16:48:18 CET 2009 - meissner@suse.de
+
+- updated to 1.4.9-stable:
+ o event_add would not return error for some backends; from Dean McNamee
+ o Clear the timer cache on entering the event loop; reported by Victor Chang
+ o Only bind the socket on connect when a local address has been provided;
+   reported by Alejo Sanchez
+ o Allow setting of local port for evhttp connections to support millions
+   of connections from a single system; from Richard J ones.
+ o Clear the timer cache when leaving the event loop; reported by Robin Haberkorn
+ o Fix a typo in setting the global event base; reported by lance.
+ o Fix a memory leak when reading multi-line headers
+ o Fix a memory leak by not running explicit close detection for server connections
+
+- updated to 1.4.8-stable:
+ o Match the query in DNS replies to the query in the request; from Vsevolod Stakhov.
+ o Fix a merge problem in which name_from_addr returned pointers to the stack; found by Jiang Hong.
+ o Do not remove Accept-Encoding header
+        
+- updated to 1.4.7-stable:
+ o Fix a bug where headers arriving in multiple packets were not parsed; fix from Jiang Hong; test by me.
+        
+- updated to 1.4.6-stable:
+ o evutil.h now includes <stdarg.h> directly
+ o switch all uses of [v]snprintf over to evutil
+ o Correct handling of trailing headers in chunked replies; from Scott Lamb.
+ o Support multi-line HTTP headers; based on a patch from Moshe Litvin
+ o Reject negative Content-Length headers; anonymous bug report
+ o Detect CLOCK_MONOTONIC at runtime for evdns; anonymous bug report    
+ o Fix a bug where deleting signals with the kqueue backend would cause subsequent adds to fail
+ o Support multiple events listening on the same signal; make signals
+   regular events that go on the same event queue; problem
+   report by Alexander Drozdov.
+ o Deal with evbuffer_read() returning -1 on EINTR|EAGAIN; from Adam Langley.
+ o Fix a bug in which the DNS server would incorrectly set the type of a cname reply to a.
+ o Fix a bug where setting the timeout on a bufferevent would take not effect if the event was already pending.
+ o Fix a memory leak when using signals for some event bases; reported by Alexander Drozdov.
+ o Add libevent.vcproj file to distribution to help with Windows build.
+ o Fix a problem with epoll() and reinit; problem report by Alexander Drozdov.  
+ o Fix off-by-one errors in devpoll; from Ian Bell
+ o Make event_add not change any state if it fails; reported by Ian Bell.
+ o Do not warn on accept when errno is either EAGAIN or EINTR
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Tue Sep 16 17:54:14 CEST 2008 - mrueckert@suse.de
 
diff --git a/libevent.spec b/libevent.spec
index 2f0076d..3ca87aa 100644
--- a/libevent.spec
+++ b/libevent.spec
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #
-# spec file for package libevent (Version 1.4.5)
+# spec file for package libevent (Version 1.4.9)
 #
-# Copyright (c) 2008 SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Nuernberg, Germany.
+# Copyright (c) 2009 SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Nuernberg, Germany.
 #
 # All modifications and additions to the file contributed by third parties
 # remain the property of their copyright owners, unless otherwise agreed
@@ -21,8 +21,8 @@
 Name:           libevent
 Url:            http://monkey.org/~provos/libevent/
 Summary:        Library Providing an Event Handling API
-Version:        1.4.5
-Release:        24
+Version:        1.4.9
+Release:        1
 Group:          Development/Libraries/C and C++
 License:        BSD 3-Clause
 BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-build
@@ -123,6 +123,44 @@ rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
 %{_libdir}/libevent_extra.so
 
 %changelog
+* Mon Mar 16 2009 meissner@suse.de
+- updated to 1.4.9-stable:
+  o event_add would not return error for some backends; from Dean McNamee
+  o Clear the timer cache on entering the event loop; reported by Victor Chang
+  o Only bind the socket on connect when a local address has been provided;
+  reported by Alejo Sanchez
+  o Allow setting of local port for evhttp connections to support millions
+  of connections from a single system; from Richard J ones.
+  o Clear the timer cache when leaving the event loop; reported by Robin Haberkorn
+  o Fix a typo in setting the global event base; reported by lance.
+  o Fix a memory leak when reading multi-line headers
+  o Fix a memory leak by not running explicit close detection for server connections
+- updated to 1.4.8-stable:
+  o Match the query in DNS replies to the query in the request; from Vsevolod Stakhov.
+  o Fix a merge problem in which name_from_addr returned pointers to the stack; found by Jiang Hong.
+  o Do not remove Accept-Encoding header
+- updated to 1.4.7-stable:
+  o Fix a bug where headers arriving in multiple packets were not parsed; fix from Jiang Hong; test by me.
+- updated to 1.4.6-stable:
+  o evutil.h now includes <stdarg.h> directly
+  o switch all uses of [v]snprintf over to evutil
+  o Correct handling of trailing headers in chunked replies; from Scott Lamb.
+  o Support multi-line HTTP headers; based on a patch from Moshe Litvin
+  o Reject negative Content-Length headers; anonymous bug report
+  o Detect CLOCK_MONOTONIC at runtime for evdns; anonymous bug report
+  o Fix a bug where deleting signals with the kqueue backend would cause subsequent adds to fail
+  o Support multiple events listening on the same signal; make signals
+  regular events that go on the same event queue; problem
+  report by Alexander Drozdov.
+  o Deal with evbuffer_read() returning -1 on EINTR|EAGAIN; from Adam Langley.
+  o Fix a bug in which the DNS server would incorrectly set the type of a cname reply to a.
+  o Fix a bug where setting the timeout on a bufferevent would take not effect if the event was already pending.
+  o Fix a memory leak when using signals for some event bases; reported by Alexander Drozdov.
+  o Add libevent.vcproj file to distribution to help with Windows build.
+  o Fix a problem with epoll() and reinit; problem report by Alexander Drozdov.
+  o Fix off-by-one errors in devpoll; from Ian Bell
+  o Make event_add not change any state if it fails; reported by Ian Bell.
+  o Do not warn on accept when errno is either EAGAIN or EINTR
 * Tue Sep 16 2008 mrueckert@suse.de
 - split out devel and shared library package.
 - drop static libs