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+GREAT THANKS TO ALL CONTRIBUTORS
+--------------------------------
+
+Ebu <Ebu@seznam.cz>          smoothed icons
+Jacques Lebourgeois          fix malformed UTF-8 characters
+Eduard Naum                  fix JDK 1.3 runtime problem
+Chris Grindstaff             fix SWTException when PMD is run on a file with syntax error