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-Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6-svn (not released yet)
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-Core support:
- * New playlist core
- * Video Filter2 filters can now be selected for local display using --video-filter
+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
+   - Similarly, "Bookmarks" will be reintroduced in an improved version at a 
+     later point
+  * The default for --sout-keep has changed. It's now activated by default.
+
+Changes:
+--------
+
+Playlist:
+ * Vastly improved playlist support:
+    * Media library support
+    * "Live search"
+    * Shoutcast TV listings
+    * Audioscrobbler/last.fm support
+
+Input/Demuxers:
+  * UDP-Lite protocol (requires OS support) for RTP/AVP
+  * DCCP protocol (requires OS support) for RTP/AVP
+
+Decoders:
+ * VP60/VP61 codecs support
+ * Teletext subtitles (telx) 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
+ * Rewrite motion detection video filter
+ * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a video)
+ * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
+
+Stream output:
+ * UDP-Lite (requires OS support) for RTP/TS encapsulation
+
+Interfaces:
+ * Windows/Linux
+   * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
+ * All
+   * Improved user interaction
+
+
+Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6-bugfix (not yet released):
+-----------------------------------------------------------
+Various bugfixes notably:
+ * out-of-bound read in demuxers
+ * demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
+ * Mac OS X Interface crashes
+
+Mac OS X Interface:
+ * further usability improvements
+
+
+Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
+---------------------------------
 
-Video Filters:
- * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now splited into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and Psychedelic) video filters have been ported to the Video Filter2 API. They can now be streamed.
+CDDA / VCDX plugins:
+ * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701)
 
-Nix Port
- * Notification plugin.
+Mac OS X Interface:
+ * Fullscreen controller improvements
+
+
+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 (not VP61)
+ * The True Audio Lossless codec support
+ * Matroska WavPack support
+ * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
+ * 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 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