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 ====
 
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-current master branch "cascading gradient"
+0.5.7 (to be announced) "semantic density"
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+- Speedup of the base64 decoder.
+- One of the two source browsers has been removed from the web pages.
+  The doxygen API reference still contains an HTML version of each
+  source file.
+- Two race conditions in para_server have been fixed.
+- ls -p is now deprecated in favor of -F or -b. See the help text of
+  the ls command for details.
+
+Download: [tarball](./releases/paraslash-git.tar.bz2)
+
+---------------------------------------
+0.5.6 (2016-07-10) "cascading gradient"
+---------------------------------------
+
+The highlight of this release is the new -m flag for para_afh which
+lets it modify the meta tags of the given audio file(s). This feature
+is supported for all audio formats. Many small cleanups and bug fixes
+not mentioned here have accumulated and are also part of the release.
 
 - para_afh learned to modify meta tags of mp3 wma ogg spx
   opus flac aac files.
@@ -12,7 +30,16 @@ current master branch "cascading gradient"
   inconsistencies.
 - New -v flag for the version command (print verbose version string)
 - New option --priority for para_server and para_audiod.
-
+- New mood methods: image_id and lyrics_id.
+- The manual and this NEWS file have been converted to markdown.
+- Support for the compile-time loglevel feature has been removed.
+- Cleanup of the wma decoder and bitstream code.
+- Improved wide-character support and fixes related to signal handling.
+- para_gui no longer reports 100% playing time at the stream start.
+- Opus cleanups.
+
+[tarball](./releases/paraslash-0.5.6.tar.bz2),
+[signature](./releases/paraslash-0.5.6.tar.bz2.asc)
 
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 0.5.5 (2015-09-20) "magnetic momentum"