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 NEWS
 ====
 
+-----------------------------------------------
+0.5.4 (to be announced) "exponential alignment"
+-----------------------------------------------
+
+       - Minor cleanups to daemon.c.
+       - New URLs for home page and git services.
+       - Improved error diagnostics for the mvblob commands.
+       - New sender subcommand: status.
+       - Improved help text for server and afs commands.
+       - audiod memory leak fixes.
+       - oss_writer improvements.
+
+Download: ./releases/paraslash-git.tar.bz2
+
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-0.5.2 (to be announced) "orthogonal interior"
+0.5.3 (2014-08-01) "symbolic synchronization"
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+Not many new features, but lots of fixes and usability improvements.
+
+       - para_gui has been converted to use the paraslash scheduler.
+       - Various alsa-related fixes, mostly for the raspberry pi.
+       - Many scheduler improvements and cleanups.
+       - The test suite has been extended to include sanity checks
+         for the generated man pages.
+       - ao_writer fixes. This writer was in a quite bad shape. Many
+         serious bugs have been fixed.
+       - new audiod command: version.
+       - Minor improvements to the bitstream API.
+       - The cpsi command now prints a meaningful error message if
+         none of the given patterns matched any audio file.
+
+Downloads: ./releases/paraslash-0.5.3.tar.bz2 (tarball),
+./releases/paraslash-0.5.3.tar.bz2.asc (signature)
+
+----------------------------------------
+0.5.2 (2014-04-11) "orthogonal interior"
+----------------------------------------
+
 The new sync filter, the AES_CTR128 stream cipher and the overhauled
-network code are the highlights of this release.
+network code are the highlights of this release. It also includes a
+fair number of smaller fixes and improvements not mentioned here.
 
        - The new sync filter synchronizes playback between multiple
          clients.
@@ -17,9 +53,18 @@ network code are the highlights of this release.
          are necessary, and a client linked against openssl can
          speak with a server linked against libgcrypt and vice versa.
        - Major cleanup of the networking subsystem.
+       - Improvements to para_fade: the new set mode, multi-channel
+         initial volumes, better error logging.
+       - The man pages of para_audiod, para_filter, para_recv, and
+         para_write contain the relevant options for receivers, filters,
+         writers. This broke in 0.5.0.
+       - ogg/vorbis latency improvements.
        - Improved user manual.
        - Minor fixes to avoid clang warnings.
 
+Downloads: ./releases/paraslash-0.5.2.tar.bz2 (tarball),
+./releases/paraslash-0.5.2.tar.bz2.asc (signature)
+
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 0.5.1 (2013-12-20) "temporary implication"
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@@ -43,6 +88,9 @@ of the build system.
        - Many small bugs in the build system have been identified
          and fixed.
 
+Downloads: ./releases/paraslash-0.5.1.tar.bz2 (tarball),
+./releases/paraslash-0.5.1.tar.bz2.asc (signature)
+
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 0.5.0 (2013-08-23) "invertible validity"
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