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 # Revision history for skylighting and skylighting-core
 
+## 0.8.1.2 -- 2019-07-14
+
+  * Fix HlCChar for one-character octal escapes like '\0' (#82).
+    Due to a bug in pCStringChar, only multi-character octal
+    escapes were being recognized. This affects not just C
+    highlighting, but all of the following highlighters which
+    use HlCChar: fasm eiffel pike objectivec ruby vhdl scala
+    java jsp nasm protobuf pure go objectivecpp gnuassembler povray
+    actionscript c cs opencl boo rhtml elixir.  This fixes a
+    regression introduced in version 0.3.1.
+
 ## 0.8.1.1 -- 2019-06-13
 
   * Improved LaTeX escaping (#78).
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 name:                skylighting
-version:             0.8.1.1
+version:             0.8.1.2
 synopsis:            syntax highlighting library
 description:         Skylighting is a syntax highlighting library with
                      support for over one hundred languages.  It derives