Merge branch 'maint'

To bring in the 0.5.9 tag.

* maint:
  paraslash 0.5.9

diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index c21cc858ef2c4ab5030a4f1e8996921dd9585513..45e46bc627a13398a24dbe9dc220beeeb657bed4 100644 (file)
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -229,6 +229,23 @@ Downloads:
 [tarball](./releases/paraslash-0.6.1.tar.xz),
 [signature](./releases/paraslash-0.6.1.tar.xz.asc)
 
+---------------------------------------
+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)
+
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 0.5.8 (2017-09-23) "branching parabola"
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