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-Changes between 0.9.6 and 1.0.0-git:
-------------------------------------
+Changes between 0.9.8a and 1.0.0-pre1:
+--------------------------------------
+
+Important notes:
+----------------
+ * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
+   See 'Access:' for more info.
 
 Playback:
- * Instant pausing
- * Frame-By-Frame Support
+ * Instantaneous pausing
+ * Frame-by-Frame playback
+ * Finer speed control
+ * Timeshift for most medias
+ * On-the-fly recording for all medias
+ * RTSP trickplay support
+
+New Decoders:
+ * AES3 (SMPTE 302M)
+ * Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b)
+ * True HD/MLP
+ * Blu-Ray Linear PCM
+ * QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice)
+ * Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
+ * WMA v1/2 fixed point integer
+ * Close Caption under SCTE-20 standard
+
+Demuxers:
+ * Support for Dirac and RealVideo in Matroska files
+ * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
+ * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
+
+Encoders:
+ * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
+ * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
 
 Access:
- * RTSP authentication with Darwing Streaming Server
+ * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
+ * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
+ * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
+ * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
+ * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
+   OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
+ * DVB scanning on linux
+ * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
+ * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form zip://file.zip|file.avi to specify the file)
+ * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
+ * MTP device access on Unix
+ * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
 
 Inputs:
  * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
- * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on
-   windows.
-
-Decoders:
- * AES3 (SMPTE 302M) support
- * E-AC3 (A/52b) support
-
-Encoders:
- * Dirac encoding support using libdirac (support in Ogg, in TS)
+ * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
+   Windows.
 
-Stream output:
- * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
- * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
- * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
+Playlist:
+ * Export the playlist in HTML
+ * Lua script for BBC radio playback
+ * Better metadata handling and reading
 
 Linux/Windows interface:
+ * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
+ * Various fixes for skins2 interface
  * Recently played items list
+ * Interface toolbar customizations
+ * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
+    - More menus actions
+    - Finer speed slider
+    - Improvements on many dialogs
+    - New dialog for plugins listing
+    - Fixed-size mode for videos
+    - Better teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
+ * Better integration in GTK environments
 
 Mac OS X Interface:
  * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
+ * Easy addition of Subtitles through the Video menu
+ * Additional usability improvements
+
+Stream output:
+ * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
+ * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
+ * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
+ * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
 
 Maemo Port:
  * New Maemo port with:
@@ -39,12 +90,30 @@ Maemo Port:
 Windows CE Port:
  EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
 
-Playlist:
- * export the playlist in HTML
- * Lua script for BBC radio playback
+Mac OS X Port:
+ * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
+ * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
 
 Audio output:
  * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
+ * Surround support for PulseAudio
+
+Video output:
+ * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
+ * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
+ * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'. The old image video output has been removed.
+
+Miscellanous:
+ * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
+
+Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
+---------------------------------
+
+Security update:
+ * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
+
+Bunch of small bugfixes.
+
 
 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
 --------------------------------
@@ -52,8 +121,9 @@ New Localizations:
  * Ukranian
 
 Security updates:
- * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-xxxx)
- * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-xxxx)
+ * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
+ * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
+
 
 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
 --------------------------------
@@ -83,6 +153,7 @@ Access:
 Translations:
  * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
 
+
 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
 ------------------------------------
 Various bugfixes: