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 * Major changes in release 5.0.2:
 
 ** Bug fixes
+- uniq -c now uses a SPACE, not a TAB between the count and the
+  corresponding line, as required by POSIX.
 - kill no longer tries to operate on argv[0] (introduced in 5.0.1)
   Why wasn't this noticed?  Although many tests use kill, none of
   them made an effort to avoid using the shell's built-in kill.