+* Major changes in 1.0.9
+
+** Use seperate buffer to store debugging output. (ueno)
+
+** Don't signal an error when a user is quitting, and he joined a
+ channel where you left. (ueno)
+
+** While traversing channel list with C-c g, offer channels in order
+ of precedence where they have newer unread messages. (ueno)
+
+** Allow "@" instead of " " as a separator of a channel name and an
+ IRC server name. (ueno)
+
+** Rewrite the Japanese manual (riece-ja.texi) for IRC & Emacs
+ newbies. (ueno)
+
+** Include a document for developers (doc/HACKING.ja) (ueno)
+
+** Allow users to hide *Others* buffer. (ueno)
+
+** New mechanism for executing Ruby programs. The usage is documented
+ in comments at the beginning of riece-ruby.el. (ueno)
+
+** New add-on riece-eval-ruby.el, which takes Ruby programs from
+ user's input prefixed with ",ruby " and send the result to the
+ current channel. (ueno)
+
+** When saving a log file, embed the name of the coding-system used in
+ the filename. This will avoid mojibake even
+ riece-log-coding-system is not set. (ueno)
+
+** Added new make rule for byte-compiling elisp files individually.
+ To use it, after configure, do "make compile-individually" in
+ lisp/. (ueno)
+
* Major changes in 1.0.8
** Mitigate file locking scheme of riece-log. (ueno)