v1.6.0 build - including release notes
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+# 1.6.0
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+### Cmake/ projects:
+* Moved CMakeLists.txt to root, made it friendlier for CLion and generating XCode and VS projects, and removed the manually maintained XCode and VS projects.
+
+### Features/ Changes:
+* Approx now supports >= and <=
+* Can now use \ to escape chars in test names on command line
+* Standardize C++11 feature toggles
+
+### Fixes:
+* Blue shell colour
+* Missing argument to CATCH_CHECK_THROWS
+* Don't encode extended ASCII in XML
+* use std::shuffle on more compilers (fixes deprecation warning/error)
+* Use __COUNTER__ more consistently (where available)
+
+### Other:
+* Tweaks and changes to scripts - particularly for Approval test - to make them more portable
+
+# Older versions
+Release notes were not maintained prior to v1.6.0, but you should be able to work them out from the Git history
+
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+
+[Home](Readme.md)