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+This file describes changes in the MapClass package.
+
+## Unreleased
+
+- Build the manual with AutoDoc; its front page now shows the version and
+  release date (#17)
+
+## 1.4.6 (2022-09-17)
+
+- Use the MathJax version of the HTML manual by default
+- Fix a broken link in the installation appendix of the manual
+
+## 1.4.5 (2022-03-17)
+
+- Fix `RandomSubgroupTuple` when `OurG` is 0 (#12)
+- License the package under GPL-2.0-or-later
+
+## 1.4.4 (2018-12-02)
+
+## 1.4.3 (2018-09-15)
+
+## 1.4.2 (2018-09-13)
+
+## 1.4.1 (2018-09-12)
+
+## 1.4.0 (2018-09-05)
+
+## 1.3 (2011-07-21)