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@@@ -20,6 -20,6 +20,7 @@@ are the highlights of this release
          tarballs. This reduces the size of the tarballs but requires
          gengetopt to build the tarball.
        - Compiles cleanly also with llvm/clang.
++      - The alsa writer used poll fds instead of computing timeouts.
        - Corrupt mp3 files are handled more gracefully.
        - sched: Optimized zero timeouts.
        - vss timeout cleanups.