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 NEWS
 ====
 
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-0.6.0 (to be announced) "fuzzy flux"
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+----------------------------------------
+0.6.1 (2017-09-23) "segmented iteration"
+----------------------------------------
+
+The highlight of this release is the version 2 mood parser. But there
+is a lot more than that, as summarized in the list below. And of
+course we have many small usability improvements and bug fixes not
+mentioned here.
+
+- A more intuitive syntax for moods ("version 2 moods"). The
+  traditional version 1 moods are still supported but are deprecated
+  now. Removal of the version 1 mood parser is scheduled for the next
+  major release.
+- Flex and bison are now required to build para_server.
+- New sort order for the ls command: -s=h sorts the ls output by hash
+  value of the audio file.
+- autogen.sh now runs the test suite after a successful build.
+- The contents of overview.pdf have been integrated into the user
+  manual.
+- Fixed sized audio format headers for ogg/opus streams.
+- The doxygen source browser has been disabled temporarily. The
+  API reference is still online, though.
+- Overhaul of the source code documentation.
+- The deprecated --full-path option of the ls command has been
+  removed. It was a no-op since 0.6.0.
+- The wma decoder has been cleaned up and its bitstream API made
+  more robust.
+- The image/lyrics ID status items of the current audio file are now
+  updated on changes. This affects para_gui, which used to report the
+  old value until EOF.
+
+Downloads:
+[tarball](./releases/paraslash-0.6.1.tar.xz),
+[signature](./releases/paraslash-0.6.1.tar.xz.asc)
+
+---------------------------------------
+0.5.8 (2017-09-23) "branching parabola"
+---------------------------------------
+
+A couple of fixes for serious old bugs have accummulated in the maint
+branch since paraslash-0.5.7 was released nine months ago. So here
+is another 0.5.x release. As usual, all commits in the maint branch
+have been merged into master, so the upcoming paraslash-0.6.1 also
+contains them. For details see the git log.
+
+Downloads:
+[tarball](./releases/paraslash-0.5.8.tar.bz2),
+[signature](./releases/paraslash-0.5.8.tar.bz2.asc)
+
+-------------------------------
+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.
@@ -34,9 +90,37 @@ NEWS
   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-git.tar.bz2),
+[tarball](./releases/paraslash-0.6.0.tar.xz),
+[signature](./releases/paraslash-0.6.0.tar.xz.asc)
 
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 0.5.7 (2016-12-31) "semantic density"