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+  o Minor bugfixes (client):
+    - Conform to the GNU Coding Standards section 4.7.1 which states
+      that the output of the version option consists of the program name
+      and its version number without prefixes. Fixes bug 20982; bugfix
+      on 0.0.2pre24.