announce upcoming features

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 NEWS
 ====
 
-0.?.? (to be announced) "oriented abstraction"
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+0.?.? (to be announced) "sonic convolution"
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+A bunch of new features and core changes.
+
+       o the new paraslash scheduler, short and sweet.
+
+       o Support for m4a files via the new aac filter/ and audio
+       format handler. (requires libfaad)
+
+       o new writer: osxplay (thanks to Gerd Becker)
+
+       o writers are integrated into para_audiod
+
+       o each writer of para_write has its own command line parser,
+       just like para_recv and para_filter.
+
+       o random/playlist selector: improved info strings
+
+
+0.2.12 (2006-05-12) "oriented abstraction"
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
 Many user-visible changes in this release and lots of new
 features:
 
@@ -11,7 +32,7 @@ features:
        congestion control protocol. You'll need a fairly new kernel
        for this.
 
-       o paraslash compiles under MacOs (thanks to Gerd Becker)
+       o paraslash works on Mac OS X (thanks to Gerd Becker)
 
        o para_play renamed to para_write
 
@@ -23,7 +44,7 @@ features:
 
        o update to libortp-0.9.1
 
-       o update to gengetopt-2.17
+       o update to gengetopt-2.17rc
 
        o para_client no longer depends on libreadline (as the
        code for the interactive mode was removed).
@@ -31,6 +52,11 @@ features:
        o gcc-2-95 is no longer a supported compiler. It may still
        work, but it gets no more testing.
 
+       o the tarball no longer contains the screenshot images which
+       reduces its size quite a bit.
+
+       o configure: new command line options: --enable-mysql-headers
+       and --enable-mysql-libs
 
 0.2.11 (2006-03-11) "atomic duality"
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