diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
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+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,171 @@
-Ongoing
+2.6 Release (TBD) - Maintenance release
+
+Features:
+
+- Issue 144: Use subdirectory for archives (tar, zip)
+- Issue 467: Provide feedback to user on JVM heap memory usage
+- Issue 524: Shorten name of anonymous JSON nodes in column names
+
+Bugs fixed:
+
+- Issue 154: Can't import RDF/XML Data
+- Issue 226: Load into freebase: date objects are not converted into proper freebase dates
+- Issue 361: Headless operation on OS X leaves Dock icon bouncing
+- Issue 390: Latest POI fixes some import issues
+- Issue 432: cross() failing
+- Issue 436: Google refine don't start on debian squeeze
+- Issue 490: Unable to guess filetype is CSV when importing a simple CSV file
+- Issue 496: google-refine-2.5-rc2-r2379 failed to start if using refine.ini
+- Issue 515: "Open Project" page shows negative interval for "Last Modified"
+- Issue 517: Combin() function does not work as intended
+- Issue 521: Machine readable string (/type/rawstring) missing
+- Issue 523: Return all available HTTP error information on when Fetch URL fails
+- Issue 535: Refine fails to import Excel 2010 XLSX file with null hyperlinks
+- Issue 537: ToNumber should try to convert to integer first
+- Issue 541: Can't constrain a Freebase key query when using add column
+- Issue 542: ToDate should work on integers
+- Issue 543: Project creation from URL can't handle gzip Content-Encoding
+- Issue 544: FileNotFound exception when importing archive from URL
+- Issue 548: escape(value, encoding) returns "null" for non-string values
+- Issue 551: MQL preview missing "insert" clause
+- Issue 553: Upload Error - Not a directory
+- Issue 554: Format guesser ranking isn't working correctly in some cases
+- Issue 558: 'refine windows_dist' does not work on MacOS Lion
+- Issue 559: Deadlock between autosave thread and history code
+- Issue 578: json import on create project deletes useful blank data from arrays
+- Issue 586: Only one parse date format is attempted from list in toDate(format1,format2)
+- Issue 594: Date diff function doesn't work for two Calendar objects
+- Issue 596: JSON importer should not deserialize nulls as the string "null"
+- Issue 597: Deselect all button on Custom Tabular Exporter dialog doesn't work
+- Issue 599: RDF/XML parser preview not wired up
+- Issue 601: Allow selection of root element on JSON import
+- Issue 604: The common transform “Trim leading and trailing whitespace” doesn’t trim non-breaking spaces
+
+
+2.5 Release (December 11, 2011)
+
+Major changes:
+- Entirely new importer architecture and user interface for Create Project
+- New import/export formats: Google Fusion Tables, OpenOffice Calc, 
+  and fixed width (import only)
+
+Features:
+
+- Issue 131: Read multiple files in a directory
+- Issue 179: Progress feedback during upload
+- Issue 260: XML Importer silently fails if file doesn't meet its criteria
+- Issue 279: Add support for reading from non-public Google Spreadsheets docs
+- Issue 280: Spreadsheet/table importers should allow selection of sheet/table to import
+- Issue 281: Add sheet selection support to Google Spreadsheet importer
+- Issue  31: Maximum number of facet values should be configurable.
+- Issue  38: Fix the table header so that it's always visible when scrolling a long page
+- Issue 433: Usability: use HTML <label> (e.g., for checkboxes
+- Issue 447: Extend toTitlecase() function with support for char[] delimiters in Apache WordUtils
+- Issue 452: Importing using Clipboard function does not guess structure correctly for XML or JSON
+- Issue 483: Project custom metadata while importing 
+- Issue 504: Allow "sort" keyword in constraint subquery for "Add from Freebase"
+- Issue  84: Add a cut and paste textbox importer
+- Issue  85: Fixed width column importer
+- Issue  88: Improve operation history robustness by fixing Json.
+- Issue  92: Add Columns From Freebase dialog should support constraints
+- Issue  97: Exporting CSV should allow for optional columns
+
+Bugs fixed:
+
+- Issue 149: rows button stays strike-through when clicking on it
+- Issue 229: 'Ignore lines on import' bug when import from URL?
+- Issue 232: Stray characters before <?xml> (including blank lines) causes XML import to fail
+- Issue 233: 404 Error upon Launch
+- Issue 313: Excel export loses date cell format
+- Issue 314: Reconciliation (Freebase) of accented characters doesn't work
+- Issue 330: On Project creation - Unchecked Split Columns Box still splits by comma
+- Issue 366: Error when using Add column from Freebase on restored project
+- Issue 375: Importing data from Google spreadsheet via visualisation API query
+- Issue 378: Transform involving NaN causes crash
+- Issue 383: Updating Preview hangs on 2.5 branch when checking Load at most...
+- Issue 410: Convert line-endings to DOS format
+- Issue 419: Values with Characters like é split across several lines
+- Issue 424: Duplicate column names don't allow user to recover
+- Issue 426: filter with custom facet adds zero lines choice
+- Issue 428: Excel import sometimes drops last row of data
+- Issue 430: Timeline Facet not working
+- Issue 435: refine sh script only checks for java 1.6, not > 1.6
+- Issue 440: Fetch URLs aborts while saving/loading/computing facets
+- Issue 441: onError - "keep-original" / "store-blank" working oddly for value.toDate()
+- Issue 442: Two column transforms to date on the same column turns the cells blank
+- Issue 449: Uncaught exception from Excel importer
+- Issue 450: Parse error uploading to Fusion Table
+- Issue 454: Reselect Files after Configuring Parsing Options does not allow Select
+- Issue 459: Undefined error with some CSV files (incorrectly detected as EXCEL) 
+- Issue 462: Don't trim whitespace in Excel importer
+- Issue 465: Data text file with extension .dta within a .ZIP is not automatically extracted
+- Issue 473: Cancel button doesn't work during project creation
+- Issue 474: XML importer ignores record limit
+- Issue 475: New Importer does not accept special separator characters completely such as Unicode chars
+- Issue 477: Implement or remove the line separator option
+- Issue 487: Transform -> To Date doesn't support ISO 8601 date parsing
+- Issue 488: ISO 8601 dates not supported in cell editing - cell-ui.js
+- Issue 489: Custom Exporter no longer behaves as expected with line & field separators
+- Issue 491: Importing Excel files - blank columns and time formatting
+- Issue 492: Table header cells misaligning with table cells
+- Issue 502: Fetch URLs does not return the exact HTTP payload, like Create Project from URLs does.
+- Issue 513: No more Json Tokens in stream ERROR
+
+
+2.1 Release (July 10, 2011) - Maintenance release
+
+Features:
+
+- Issue 157: Google Spreadsheet import/export plugin integrated
+- Issue 220: HTML parsing functions added to GREL (using Jsoup)
+- Issue 222: Added the ability to save favorite transforms
+- Issue 224: added ABS math function
+- Issue 349: Clustering not finding duplicates when facet is showing groupings
+- Issue 399: Added Cologne Phonetic clustering for German names
+
+Bugs fixed:
+
+- Issue 102: Process-Panel div sometimes disappears in Google Chrome
+- Issue 107: Reconciliation options not showing international characters correctly
+- Issue 143: Windows refine.bat file gives NoClassDefFoundError
+- Issue 163: Refine doesn't retain the characters for flat or sharp
+- Issue 172: inconsistencies in encoding guessing during load
+- Issue 184: Support formatting dates into strings
+- Issue 185: same reconciliation candidate for two cells seems to be overridden
+- Issue 187: Linux start instruction incorrect
+- Issue 188: ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException when importing excel file
+- Issue 196: failure and error dialog attempting to remove columns
+- Issue 197: New project was modified "0 years ago"
+- Issue 202: Sort text with accents
+- Issue 203: Please add TextPipe to Related Software page
+- Issue 227: Documentation states extensions are mounted at /extensions, but they are really mounted at /extension.
+- Issue 228: Import .zip archive fails
+- Issue 237: reinterpret() no longer seems to work as expected
+- Issue 258: JAVA_HOME ignored if "which java" returns nonzero
+- Issue 262: Refine does not start
+- Issue 263: & symbol being parsed in url's in xml
+- Issue 276: strange character while create new project with a chinese poject name
+- Issue 294: Exporting date type column to TSV/CSV shows java debugging information instead of value
+- Issue 295: Binaries under 'root' user on *nix
+- Issue 304: CsvExporter tests fail after commit for issue 294
+- Issue 311: "Ignore" and "Skip" fields in the "Create a New Project" form have the same input[name]
+- Issue 312: toString(date_val, 'yyyy-MM-dd') doesn't seem to work
+- Issue 325: Refine cannot load data from URL when run behind Proxy Server
+- Issue 328: Don't retry failed key-based reconciliations
+- Issue 334: Fusion Tables CSV import produces NullPointerException
+- Issue 351: Error 500 STREAM on Excel export
+- Issue 355: Broken images for SchemaAlignment page
+- Issue 358: org.json.JSONException: JSON does not allow non-finite numbers.
+- Issue 364: Build is broken
+- Issue 374: Problems with date functions INC
+- Issue 391: Patch to refine.{bat,ini}
+- Issue 401: Error in exception handling for ExportRows command
+- Issue 404: Intermittent charset detection failure
+- Issue 415: Evaluation precedence wrong for arithmetic expressions
+- Issue 61: multiple rows per column from 1 xml element
+
+
+2.0 Release  (November 10, 2010 - first release as Google Refine)
 
 Major Changes:
 - New extension architecture.
@@ -19,7 +186,7 @@ Features:
     - Clear recon data for one cell
     - Clear recon data for similar cells
     - Copy recon judgments across columns
-- GEL:
+- GREL:
   - JSON support
   - New functions: smartSplit, escape, parseJson, hasField, uniques
   - New controls: forEachIndex, forRange, filter
@@ -34,23 +201,33 @@ Features:
 - Text facet's choice count limit is now configurable through preference page
 - Select All and Unselect All buttons in History Extract dialog
 - Schema skeleton: support for multiple cells per cell-as nodes, and for conditional links
+- Optionally convert strings to numbers during split columns operation
 
 Fixes:
 - TSV/CSV exporter bug: Gridworks crashed when there were empty cells.
-- Issue 29: Delievered "Collapse whitespace" transformation does not work
-- Issue 69: ControlFunctionRegistry now correctly registers Chomp expression as "chomp" key.
-- Issue 66: Records not excluded with inverted text facet
-- Issue 86: Parse cells after splitting columns
-- Issue 99: Diff for dates fails with "unknown error" always
+- Issue  29: Delivered "Collapse whitespace" transformation does not work
+- Issue  57: Schema skeleton disappears	 
+- Issue  66: Records not excluded with inverted text facet
+- Issue  69: ControlFunctionRegistry now correctly registers Chomp expression as "chomp" key.
+- Issue  99: Diff for dates fails with "unknown error" always
 - Issue 110: Import of single column text file with Postal Codes shows only 1 row with lots of � chars (?)
 - Issue 113: Export filtered rows as tsv or csv fails; html and excel OK
+- Issue 115: datePart(value,"month") gives zero-based month numbers	 
 - Issue 116: CSV/TSV export data includes blank fields for deleted columns
 - Issue 121: Importing attached file strips backslashes
 - Issue 122: Exporting to Excel on attached project raises server exception
+- Issue 125: jsonize not serializing arrays	 
 - Issue 126: Large integers formatted in scientific notation in formulas
+- Issue 127: Add column from Freebase raises exception	 
 - Issue 135: Hangs when setting cell value to large JSON string
 - Issue 138: Numbers should be right-justified
+- Issue 140: Fix Open Workspace Directory command to work on Windows and Linux	 
 - Issue 146: In "Cluster and Edit Column", clicking on entry value to set "Merge?" checkbox does not reflect the final value of operation
+- Issue 155: Blank browser shown when non-GZIP format is detected during import	 
+- Issue 160: Cancel button on Search for Match dialog sometimes not working
+- Issue 161: Authorize error when trying to Sign In before loading to Freebase
+- Issue 166: Expression Editor dialog needs UI cleanup on long expressions	 
+
 
 1.1 Release (May 27, 2010)
 
@@ -103,5 +280,5 @@ Fixes:
 
 1.0 Release (May 10, 2010)
 
-First Public Release
+First Public Release as Freebase Gridworks