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+* What's new since version 0.5.15?
+
+- New security model. To install a systemtap kernel module, a user
+must be one of the following: the root user; a member of the 'stapdev'
+group; or a member of the 'stapusr' group. Members of the stapusr group can
+only use modules located in the /lib/modules/VERSION/systemtap
+directory (where VERSION is the output of "uname -r").
+
* What's new since version 0.5.14?
- The way in which command line arguments for scripts are substituted has