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 NEWS
 ====
 
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-0.6.2 (to be accounced) "elastic diversity"
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+---------------------------------------
+0.5.9 (2021-11-04) "reversed dimension"
+---------------------------------------
+This release contains a few important fixes which have accumulated in
+the maint branch. The paraslash-0.5.x series has now reached its end
+of life and will no longer be supported. All users should upgrade to
+a more recent version at this point.
+
+- Fix an issue with the bash completion script.
+- Initialize the random seed also when using libgrypt.
+- Fix some compiler warnings in the resample filter
+- Don't return spurious errors from the ff server command.
+
+Downloads:
+[tarball](./releases/paraslash-0.5.9.tar.bz2),
+[signature](./releases/paraslash-0.5.9.tar.bz2.asc)
+
+----------------------------------------
+0.6.3 (2021-02-18) "generalized activity"
+-----------------------------------------
+
+It has been a while since the last release, but paraslash-0.6.3
+finally has arrived. It contains a fair number of improvements,
+features and fixes all over the place.
+
+- The ff command now accepts a negative argument to instruct the
+  virtual streaming system to jump backwards in the current audio
+  stream. The old syntax (e.g., "ff 30-") is still supported but it
+  is deprecated and no longer documented. The compatibility code is
+  sheduled for removal after 0.7.0.
+- para_afh: New option: --preserve to reset the modification time to
+  the value of the original file after meta data modification.
+- Overhaul of the compress filter code. The refined algorithm should
+  reduce clipping. The meaning of --aggressiveness has changed, see the
+  updated and extended documentation of the compress filter for details.
+- Cleanup of the audio format handler code.
+- We now build the tree using the .ONESHELL feature of GNU make,
+  which results in a significant speedup.
+- Two robustness fixes for FreeBSD.
+- para_client now supports RFC4716 private keys as generated with
+  ssh-keygen -m RFC4716. In fact, this key format has been made the
+  default, and the former PEM keys will be depreciated at some point.
+- The ogg audio format handlers learned to detect holes and now report
+  the correct duration also if ogg pages are missing in the file. This
+  affects ogg/vorbis ogg/speex and ogg/opus.
+- Robustness improvements for para_mixer.
+- A fix for an old bug that could cause the server to crash or report
+  garbage in its status output.
+- New para_play option: --end-of-playlist
+- Streaming m4a files over udp has been improved.
+
+Downloads:
+[tarball](./releases/paraslash-0.6.3.tar.xz),
+[signature](./releases/paraslash-0.6.3.tar.xz.asc)
+
+--------------------------------------
+0.6.2 (2018-06-30) "elastic diversity"
+--------------------------------------
+
+The main new feature of this release is the --listen-address option
+for para_server and para_audiod. But there are also a large number of
+small improvements and bug fixes all over the place. The user-visible
+changes include
 
 - para_gui no longer waits up to one second to update the screen when
   the geometry of the terminal changes.
 - Minor documentation improvements.
 - Improvements to the crypto subsystem.
+- The server subcommand "task" has been deprecated. It still works,
+  but prints nothing. It will be removed in the next major release.
+- Server log output is now serialized, avoiding issues with partial
+  lines.
+- It is now possible to switch to a different afs database by changing
+  the server configuration and sending SIGHUP to the server process.
+- New server options: --listen--address, --http-listen-address and
+  --dccp-listen-address. These options restrict the set of listening
+  addresses of the TCP and DCCP sockets of the server process.
+- The help commands of server, audiod, play now support --long. By default,
+  the short help is shown.
+- The code which merges the command line options with the config file
+  options has been consolidated.
+- If the current audio file is renamed, the status items are now updated
+  accordingly.
+- After the server process received SIGHUP, changes to the current audio
+  file did not trigger an update of the status items. This has been fixed.
+
+Downloads:
+[tarball](./releases/paraslash-0.6.2.tar.xz),
+[signature](./releases/paraslash-0.6.2.tar.xz.asc)
 
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 0.6.1 (2017-09-23) "segmented iteration"