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 $Id$
 
-Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5-svn (not yet released):
---------------------------------------------------------
+Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.9.0-svn (not released yet)
+-------------------------------------------------------
+
+Important notes:
+----------------
+ * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
+   If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
+   edit the ".hosts" file.
+   XXX: DETAILED INSTRUCTIONS HERE :XXX
+ * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux. This
+   interface lacks a few features that used to be present in vlc 0.8.6: 
+   "Streaming wizard" and "VLM control". These features will be replaced
+   by a better alternative in the next version. If you absolutely need these
+   features, we advise you to keep vlc 0.8.6
+
+Changes:
+--------
+
+Playlist:
+ * Vastly improved playlist support:
+    * Media library support
+    * "Live search"
+    * Shoutcast TV listings
+    * Audioscrobbler/last.fm support
+
+Video output:
+ * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now splitted into Wave, Ripple, Gradient
+   and Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
+ * New puzzle video output filter
+
+Interfaces:
+ * Windows/Linux
+   * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
+ * All
+   * Improved user interaction
+
+
+Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6
+--------------------------------
+
+Playlist:
+ * Shoutcast TV listings support
+
+Input:
+ * Support for RTSP authentication
+ * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
+ * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
+ * ATSC support for DVB input
+ * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
+ * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
+ * Improved support for Flash Video files
+
+Decoders:
+ * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
+ * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
+ * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support
+ * The True Audio Lossless codec support
+ * WavPack support
+ * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc)
+ * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
+ * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
+ 
+Video output:
+ * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
+ * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
+ * Improved libcaca support
+
+Interfaces:
+ * All
+   * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
+   * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
+ * Windows
+   * Systray support in skins
+ * OS X
+   * Support for Apple Remote control
+   * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
+   * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
+   * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
+   * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
+ * Linux
+   * Notifications using notification-daemon
+
+Windows port:
+ * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
+   Windows 9x/ME users: 
+     - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
+     - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
+       Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
+       http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
+       Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
+       C:\Windows\System
+ * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
+ * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
+
+Localization:
+ * Add Czech
+ * Add Slovak
+ * Add Malay
+ * Add Slovenian
+
+Developers:
+ * Updates to the libvlc API
+ * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
+
+
+Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
+---------------------------------
 
 Core support:
  * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
+ * Support for downloading updates
+ * Updated strings
 
 Input:
  * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
  * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
  * Improvements to the Audio CD input
+     - Separate playlist entries for the tracks 
+     - Support for CDDB 
  * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
  * Improved subtitles encoding support
+ * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
 
 Decoders:
  * Cook (Real audio) support
 
-Playlist / Services discovery :
+Playlist / Services discovery:
+ * XSPF playlist support
  * Podcast support
+ * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
+
+Audio output:
+ * New JACK audio output
+
+Video output:
+ * New video filters: 
+    - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
+    - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
+    - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
+ * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
+ * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
+ * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
 
-Video output 
- * New video filters : magnify, gradient, edge detection and bluescreen
- * Logo video filter : can now loop through multiple images
+Stream output:
+ * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
 
 Interfaces:
  * System to inform the user and request information 
@@ -30,22 +153,31 @@ Interfaces:
     - ...
  * wxWidgets
     - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
+    - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
+    - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
  * Skins2 
+    - New default skin
     - Support for Winamp 2 skins
     - Improved playlist handling
     - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
  * OS X
+    - Embedded Video output
+    - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
+    - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
+    - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
     - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
     - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
  * HTTP
-    - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM
+    - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
     - A bunch of new RPN functions
 
 Windows Port:
  * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
 
 OS X Port:
- * 
+ * Mac-Intel compatibility
+ * Enhanced support of various audio output devices 
+ * Growl "Now playing" support
 
 *Nix port:
  * Ability to log to syslog
@@ -54,6 +186,7 @@ OS X Port:
 Developers:
  * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
  * Java bindings
+ * A bit more automatic testing
 
 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
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