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-Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4-svn (not yet released):
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+Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5-svn (not yet released):
+--------------------------------------------------------
+
+Core support:
+ * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
+
+Input:
+ * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
+ * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
+ * Improvements to the Audio CD input
+ * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
+ * Improved subtitles encoding support
+
+Decoders:
+ * Cook (Real audio) support
+
+Playlist / Services discovery :
+ * Podcast support
+
+Video output 
+ * New video filters : magnify, gradient and edge detection
+
+Interfaces:
+ * System to inform the user and request information 
+    - HTTP authentication
+    - Fatal errors
+    - ...
+ * wxWidgets
+    - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
+ * Skins2 
+    - Support for Winamp 2 skins
+    - Improved playlist handling
+    - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
+ * OS X
+    - Overlay control panel
+    - 
+ * HTTP
+    - Much improved default interface pages
+
+Windows Port:
+ * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
+
+OS X Port:
+ * 
+
+*Nix port:
+ * Ability to log to syslog
+ * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
+
+Developers:
+ * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
+ * Java bindings
+
+Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
+---------------------------------
+
+Audio output:
+ * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
+ * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
+
+Decoder:
+ * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
+ * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
+
+Demux:
+ * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
+
+Services Discovery:
+ * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
+ * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
+ * UPnP fixes
+ * Avahi 0.6 support
+ 
+Interfaces:
+ * Mac OS X
+    - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard 
+
+Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
+--------------------------------
 
 Core support:
-* IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
+ * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
+ * New OSD system
+
+Video output:
+ * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
+ * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
+ * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
+
+Input:
+ * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
+ * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
+ * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
+ * GnomeVFS input module
+ * Support for RTP packet reordering
+ * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
+
+Decoders:
+ * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
+ * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
+ * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
 
 Services discovery:
-* Bleeding edge UPnP service discovery
+ * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
+ * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
 
-Video Filters:
-* RSS feed
+Video filters:
+ * RSS feed overlay
 
+Audio filters:
+* Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
+  Mixer and Dolby Surround
+
+Stream output:
+ * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
+ * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
+ * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
+ 
 Interfaces:
+- new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
  * Mac OS X
-    - new streaming and transcoding wizard with the same functionality as the WxWidgets one
+    - New streaming and transcoding wizard
+    - New extended controls panel
+    - New bookmarks window
+    - Fixed playlist sorting
+    - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
  * wxWidgets
-    - VLC update checker
+    - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
+    - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
+    - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
+    - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
+ * Skins2
+    - Tree playlist
+ * HTTP
+    - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
+    - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
+      the names of files
+    - Include macro to include other files
+    - CGI 1.0 support
+
+ActiveX plugin:
+* Should now work outside IE as well
+
+Mac OS X port:
+* New script to delete the preferences automatically
+
+Windows port:
+* Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
+* Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
+
+Translations:
+ The following languages were added:
+ * Galician
+ * Korean
+ * Romanian
+ * Simplified Chinese
+ The following languages were re-added:
+ * Swedish
 
 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
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+--------------------------------
 
 Core support:
  * Rewrite of the playlist