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 NEWS
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+0.7.1 (to be announced) "digital spindrift"
+-------------------------------------------
+
+- The autogen.sh script now only creates the autoconf specific files
+  but no longer runs configure, make and the test suite.
+
+- A stripped down copy of the discontinued libmp4ff library has become
+  part of the paraslash code base. As a result it is no longer necessary
+  to install faad from source to get support for aac/m4a files. The
+  faad decoder package must still be installed.
+
+- All calls to select(2) have been replaced by calls to poll(2)
+  to avoid known shortcomings of the select API.
+
+[tarball](./releases/paraslash-git.tar.xz)
+
+----------------------------------
+0.7.0 (2022-03-12) "seismic orbit"
+----------------------------------
+
+The major incompatible change which requires to bump the major version
+is the switch from sha1 to sha256, see below for details. However,
+there are many other improvements, the usual amount of bug fixes and
+a couple of new features.
+
+- Starting with paraslash-0.7.0, the sha256 hash value of each known
+  audio file is stored in the database while older versions employed the
+  sha1 hash algorithm which has been considered insecure since 2005
+  and should no longer be used today. The switch from sha1 to sha256
+  requires users to upgrade their database using the new para_upgrade_db
+  program, followed by re-adding all files to recompute the hashes. With
+  this approach all metadata stored in the database (last played date,
+  num played value, moods, playlists, attributes etc.) are kept. An
+  simpler alternative is to start over from scratch by running the
+  "init" command but this will lose these metadata.
+- Server and client now hash the session keys with sha256 rather
+  than sha1 during the initial handshake. This feature is optional and
+  backwards compatible: old clients can still connect to a new server
+  (using sha1). Also new clients can connect to an old server (again
+  using sha1).
+- The new "duration" keyword of the mood grammar makes it possible to
+  impose a constraint on the duration of the admissible files.
+- The long deprecated version 1 mood syntax is no longer supported.
+- Paraslash writers handle early end-of-file more gracefully.
+- The alsa writer no longer warns about spurious underruns.
+- The score formula  of the audio file selector has been reworked.
+- Cleanups of the doubly linked lists code.
+- New option for configure: --enable-ubsan to detect and report undefined
+  behaviour.
+- The "tasks" server command has been removed.
+- The fancy new logo and a minor overhaul of the web pages.
+
+Downloads:
+[tarball](./releases/paraslash-0.7.0.tar.xz),
+[signature](./releases/paraslash-0.7.0.tar.xz.asc)
+
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 0.6.4 (2021-11-04) "fuzzy calibration"
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