Merge tags 'v0.5.9' and 'v0.6.4' into maint

For some reason, the release commits for 0.5.9 and 0.6.4 releases
(which updated only the NEWS file) did not make it into the maint
branch. This octopus commit merges both tags to correct this omission.

diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 7554cd6b9fac8ae061d8be75afa0f4f706007ef8..f2341e3347fca0ec03688295937e3465bef75a04 100644 (file)
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -150,6 +150,23 @@ 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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