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@@ -1,17 +1,35 @@
 NEWS
 ====
 
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-0.?.? (to be announced) "neural discharge"
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+----------------------------------------------
+0.2.17 (to be announced) "isotropic threshold"
+----------------------------------------------
+
+Only bugfixes and cleanups in this version which marks the end of
+the 0.2.x series if no serious bugs show up after the release.
+
+	- mysql_selector: fix a locking bug.
+	- be more carful wrt. signed vs. unsigned argument passing.
+	- cleanup error.h and fix some references to invalid error
+	  codes.
+	- update to gengetopt-2.20.
+	- autoconf: extend checks for headers, library functions and
+	  compiler characteristics.
+	- dccp sender: Keep polling until an entry becomes free if write()
+	  returns EAGAIN (Gerrit Renker).
+
+--------------------------------------
+0.2.16 (2007-04-05) "neural discharge"
+--------------------------------------
 
 The main change in this release is the major audio format handler
 cleanup which removes some similar/duplicate code and makes it easier
 to implement plugins for other audio formats. Of course, the usual mix
 of other improvements/changes/bugfixes also made it into the release.
 
-	- simplified audio format handlers (some of the handling functions
+	- simplified audio format handlers (most of the handling functions
 	  were moved one layer up to the virtual streaming system).
+	- para_server uses mmap to read audio files
 	- repositioning of mp3 streams is much faster, in particular for
 	  jumping near the end of large mp3 files.
 	- permission flags DB_READ,DB_WRITE have been renamed to AFS_READ
@@ -19,6 +37,8 @@ of other improvements/changes/bugfixes also made it into the release.
 	- fix a bug in para_filter that caused decoding of aac files
 	  to start only after a few seconds.
 	- fix osx_writer hangs
+	- simplified dccp code (thanks to Gerrit Renker)
+	- the compress filter works also on big endian systems (ppc)
 
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 0.2.15 (2007-02-16) "inductive resonance"
@@ -242,7 +262,7 @@ the internal find command and several other improvements and cleanups.
 
 
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-0.2.5 (2005-10-13) "aggressive_resolution"
+0.2.5 (2005-10-13) "aggressive resolution"
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 This release adds internal senders, i.e. no more external programs are