4.4BSD/usr/src/contrib/news/pathalias/CHANGES

Internet connectivity (-I option).  Arpatxt decommissioned.
Nets without names.
Allow negative cost components; prohibit negative costs.
New input syntax: adjust {host, ...}; kill -a option.
New input syntax: file {filename}.
New input syntax: delete {host, host!neighbor}.
Terminal nets.
Prevent back links to domains.

-- mod.sources, 10/87 -- version 9
Terminal edges and domains (<host> syntax and -D option).
Dead hosts and edges in the input stream.
Empty private list ends scope of privates.
First hop cost in output (-f option).
Penalize deprecated hosts (-a option).

-- mod.sources, 4.3bsd, 1/86 -- version 8
Improved alias treatment.
Routes to domain gateways.
Leading dot in name implies domain.
Link/host tracing (-t option).
Use getopt().

-- mod.sources, 8/85 -- version 7
Private hosts documented.
Homegrown scanner -- it was true what they said about lex.
Makedb.
Domains and gateways.
DEAD back link.

-- net.sources, 1/85 -- version 6
No ! in dbm key.
Network character must be one of !@%: -- dot is dead.
Private hosts.
Discourage hybrid addresses.  
Magic @ <-> % rule.

-- 1983-1984 -- version 5
Reverse sense of the -c (cost) flag.
Use cheapest among duplicate links.
Elide network names in output.

-- epoch (smb version) -- versions 1-4