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+## Important Changes ##
+
+### 1.6.0 ###
+
+`geoipupdate` is removed from the GeoIP C library.
+
+Please use the seperate tool [geoipupdate](https://github.com/maxmind/geoipupdate) to download your subscriptions or our
+free databases.
+
+### 1.5.0 ###
+
+Geoipupdate may be used to download our free databases.
+
+Put this into the config file /usr/local/etc/GeoIP.conf
+to download the free GeoLite databases GeoLiteCountry, GeoLiteCity and GeoLiteASNum
+
+```
+LicenseKey 000000000000
+UserId 999999
+ProductIds 506 533 517
+```
+
+Free users should create symlinks for the GeoIP databases.
+For example:
+
+```
+cd /usr/local/share/GeoIP
+ln -s GeoLiteCity.dat GeoIPCity.dat
+ln -s GeoLiteCountry.dat GeoIPCountry.dat
+ln -s GeoLiteASNum.dat GeoIPASNum.dat
+```
+
+The lookup functions are thread safe.
+
+### 1.3.6 ###
+
+As of version 1.3.6, the GeoIP C library is thread safe, as long as
+`GEOIP_CHECK_CACHE` is not used.
+
+### 1.3.0 ###
+
+The GeoIP Region database is no longer a pointer but an in-structure array so
+test the first byte of region == 0 rather than testing if the region pointer
+is `NULL`.
+
+### 1.1.0 ###
+
+As of GeoIP 1.1.0 the GeoIP_country_xxx_by_xxx functions return NULL if a
+country can not be found. It previously returned `--` or `N/A`. To avoid
+segmentation faults, check the return value for `NULL`.