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+0.5
+- changed license to MIT
+
+
+0.4
+- changed technical name to "cleaner"
+- re-added functionality to clean nodes
+
+
+0.3
+- removed functionality for cleaning anything other than entities
+
+
+0.2
+- changed license to CC0
+- added some log output
+- entities to be cleaned can be configured & loaded from world directory
+
+
+0.1
+- forked from PilzAdam's "clean" mod @ forum post updated: 2013-06-08
+- replaced deprecated call to "minetest.env"
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+TODO:
+- allow nodes to be cleaned to be replaced by another node