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-0.4.8 (to be announced) "nested assignment"
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+------------------------------------------
+0.4.9 (to be announced) "hybrid causality"
+------------------------------------------
+
+Support for another audio format and many small improvements/fixes
+all over the place.
+
+       - Support for flac, the free lossless audio codec.
+       - Fix for an endless loop in the mp3 decoder for certain
+         (corrupt) mp3 files.
+       - autogen.sh now detects a distcc setup and adjusts the
+         parameter for the -j option of make accordingly.
+       - Shared memory areas are no longer restricted to 64K. We now
+         detect the maximal size of a shared memory area at runtime.
+       - cleanup of the internal uptime API.
+       - para_server prefaults the mmapped audio file to avoid
+         delays on slow media.
+       - A new test for the test-suite that exercises the
+         communication between para_server and para_audiod.
+       - The alsa writer eats up less CPU cycles when configured to
+         use the DMIX plugin.
+       - Simplified and unified receiver code.
+       - Makefile cleanups.
+       - Commands which print a list of matching audio files now
+         emit a meaningful error message if no audio file matched the
+         given pattern(s).
+
+--------------------------------------
+0.4.8 (2011-08-19) "nested assignment"
+--------------------------------------

 
 Gcrypt support, the overhauled osx writer and regex format specifiers
 are the highlights of this release.
 
 Gcrypt support, the overhauled osx writer and regex format specifiers
 are the highlights of this release.


@@ -16,9 +43,16 @@ are the highlights of this release.
          writers is now treated as a regular expression. This allows
          to replace 5 lines in the config file (one for each audio
          format) by one single line. See the manual for details.
          writers is now treated as a regular expression. This allows
          to replace 5 lines in the config file (one for each audio
          format) by one single line. See the manual for details.

+       - The *.cmdline.[ch] files are no longer contained in the released
+         tarballs. This reduces the size of the tarballs but requires
+         gengetopt to build the tarball.

        - Compiles cleanly also with llvm/clang.
        - Corrupt mp3 files are handled more gracefully.
        - Compiles cleanly also with llvm/clang.
        - Corrupt mp3 files are handled more gracefully.

+       - The alsa writer uses poll fds instead of computing timeouts.
+       - Cleanup of the generic writer API.

        - sched: Optimized zero timeouts.
        - sched: Optimized zero timeouts.

+       - vss timeout cleanups.
+       - oggdec fixes and improvements.

 
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 0.4.7 (2011-06-01) "infinite rollback"
 
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 0.4.7 (2011-06-01) "infinite rollback"