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+# Changelog
+
+## v1.4.5
+- consistency and shell-best-practices changes
+- move to git.unix.dog
+
+## v1.4.4
+- use raw ascii codes instead of `tput`, since `tput` isn't portable
+- setting `$tagnames` would cause duplicates if there was a multi-value tag but separated by at least 1 tag. use `sort | uniq` to fix
+- replace long slow and cursed grep + awk call for opus comment chaining with pure shell
+
+## v1.4.3
+- added more color :D
+- tiny code cleaning
+- `find -iname` is not posix, replace with abusing `[aA][Bb]`
+
+## v1.4.2
+- `find` is now case insensitive
+- `/dev/stdout` is not strictly POSIX, but `dd` defaults to stdout anyway, so just remove it from the `dd` call
+
+## v1.4.1
+- change the color commands to use `setaf` as a fallback if `setf` doesn't work. also move outside the `set -e` since it doesn't really matter if they fail
+  - I noticed that tmux was being weird with this hence why I moved it out
+- make `checkupdate()` use latest release instead of latest commit
+
+## v1.4.0
+- Update README a bit to add `mktemp -u` as a dependency, as well as fix an example
+- Add `-e` option to remove the `ENCODING` and `ENCODING_OPTIONS` tags from opus files
+  - I wanted to do this for a while, but opustags couldn't modify files that still had the cover art. It was updated to do so recently, so yippee!
+- Remove fail on specifying `-k` and `-r` at the same time, since there's no real downside to doing so (it's just weird)
+- Change command pipeline to get number of threads to hopefully be more portable (based on stefanct's answer [here](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45181115/portable-way-to-find-the-number-of-processors-cpus-in-a-shell-script))
+
+## v1.3.2
+- Fix double newlines in tags causing cutoff
+- Fix defined but empty tags causing files to not be encoded; empty tags are now dropped completely
+
+## v1.3.1
+- I confused two versions I had and the NO_COLOR var was being flagged incorrectly, this fixes it
+
+## v1.3.0
+- added color to output for hopefully easier brain parsing
+  - you can set the env var [`NO_COLOR`](https://no-color.org/) to disable this
+- flacconv now supports a tag having multiple values, i.e. being set twice
+- no longer uses a "throwaway" control character for building the command chain, rather posix positional parameters now
+
+## v1.2.2
+- Tags with no value will not be added to the opus comment chain.
+  - This handles the edge case where a tag contains a newline and `=` on line 2+ of the tag.
+- Removed a testing function.
+
+## v1.2.1
+- use a script-stopping warning for invalid id3 header in flac files
+
+## v1.2.0
+changes from 1.0.0 from the top of my head:
+
+- added update checking
+- newlines in comments support
+- verbose and very verbose output
+- remove automatic id3 cleaning from input flacs (outside scope of this script)
+- some bugfixes & freezes fixed
diff --git a/flacconv b/flacconv
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 #!/bin/sh
 
-VERSION=1.4.4
+VERSION=1.4.5
 RED="$(printf '\033[38;5;9m')"
 GREEN="$(printf '\033[38;5;10m')"
 YELLOW="$(printf '\033[38;5;11m')"