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 NEWS
 ====
 
+------------------------------------------------
+0.6.1 (to be announced) "hyperbolic correlation"
+------------------------------------------------
+
+- The contents of overview.pdf have been integrated into the user
+  manual.
+- The doxygen source browser has been disabled temporarily. The
+  API reference is still online, though.
+- Overhaul of the source code documentation.
+
+-------------------------------
+0.6.0 (2017-04-28) "fuzzy flux"
+-------------------------------
+
+The highlights of this release are the conversion of all option parsers
+to the lopsub library and the improved AAC support. But there are
+many other user-visible changes all over the place. Also a lot of
+old cruft has been removed, leading to incompatible changes. Hence
+the new major version number.
+
+- Support for Mac OS X has been removed.
+- On Linux systems, glibc-2.17 or newer is required to build the
+  source tree.
+- Support for RSA public keys in ASN format (as generated by openssl
+  genrsa) has been removed. These keys have been deprecated since
+  2011, so users should have long switched to keys generated with
+  ssh-keygen(1).
+- If libgcrypt is used as the crypto library, we now require version
+  1.5.0 (released in 2011) or later.
+- The insecure RC4 stream cipher has been removed. It was superseded
+  by aes_ctr128 three years ago but the RC4 code had been kept for
+  backwards compatibility.
+- On Linux, abstract unix domain sockets are used unconditionally.
+- The "install" target no longer strips executables, the new
+  install-strip target can be used to get the old behaviour.
+- The clean targets have been renamed: clean2 is gone, and the new
+  mostlyclean removes only the executables and object files.
+- New target: check (identical to test).
+- The DESTDIR make variable is honored to prepend a path to the
+  installation directory. This feature is orthogonal to the --prefix
+  option to configure.
+- Minor WMA cleanups.
+- The aac audio format handler has been rewritten to use the mp4ff library.
+  See the manual for how to install the library on your system.
+- New status item: max_chunk_size. The value is stored in a previously
+  unused field of the afhi object of the aft table. Although backwards
+  compatible, users are encouraged to re-add m4a files to populate
+  the new field.
+- No more chunk tables for aac. Chunk boundaries are determined
+  dynamically at stream time.
+- Release and master branch tarballs are now compressed with xz rather
+  than bzip2.
+- The lopsub package is required to install the paraslash package.
+  Gengetopt is no longer needed.
+- make dep is gone. Dependencies have been created automatically for
+  a long time and it was never necessary to run make dep manually.
+- para_gui lost its --timeout option.
+- Most manual pages have been extended to include an overall
+  description of the command.
+- The --stream-delay option of para_audiod has been removed. It had
+  been a no-op for many years.
+- The deprecated --path option of the server ls command has been
+  removed.  The command now prints full paths by default, making
+  --full-path a no-op. Hence --full-path has been depreacted and is
+  scheduled for removal in v0.6.1.
+- It is now possible to use 'CFLAGS' to override the default compiler
+  options.
+- para_fade has been renamed to para_mixer. The four modes of operation
+  (set, fade, snooze, sleep) are implemented as subcommands of the
+  new program.
+- The sleep subcommand of para_mixer (former sleep mode of para_fade)
+  lost its --wake-hour and --wake-min options in favor of the new
+  --wake-time option which also accepts relative wakeup times like
+  "+9:30".
+- The new --fade-exponent option of para_mixer allows for non-linear
+  channel fading.
+- The new logo.
+
+Downloads:
+[tarball](./releases/paraslash-0.6.0.tar.xz),
+[signature](./releases/paraslash-0.6.0.tar.xz.asc)
+
 -------------------------------------
 0.5.7 (2016-12-31) "semantic density"
 -------------------------------------
+
+Mostly a bug fix release, and a bunch of internal improvements.
+The only user-visible changes are the sanity checks for the touch
+command and the new options to the ls command.
+
 - 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