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*** ecasound - user visible changes (NEWS)    (last edited: 120799) ***
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About the version numbers... "vx.y.zrt" :

      x = major version (changes is design and public interfaces)
      y = minor version (new features and functionality to current 
	  major version)
      z = bugfix version (bugfixes and additions to current minor
	  version)
      t = public release number

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120799 (v1.2.1r3):
	- added: 'make install' now creates /etc/ecasound directory 
		 and copies all the configuration/preset files 
		 to this directory (existing files/dirs are skipped)
	- added: lots of crash-guards to command line parsing 
	- added: frequently-asked-questions file (both txt and html)
	- added: new options to the configure script: --disable-alsa,
		 --disable-oss and --disable-qt
	- fixed: bugs in mixmode multithreaded-iactive (crashed
		 pretty much everytime)
	- fixed: estatus output was sometimes pretty messy
110799 (v1.2.0r2):
	- added: support for ALSA input/output 
	- added: a lot of new documentation to the man pages
	- added: new configurable options to ~/.ecasoundrc 
		 (default-buffersize, default-to-interactive-mode,
		 default-to-raisepriority)
	- added: finally implemented the 'help' command in
  	         the interactive-mode; also added a prompt, which 
                 should help a bit :)
	- added: autoconf and automake additions; now qtecasound is 
		 compiled only if qt library is found, OSS and 
                 ALSA modules are compiled if the necessary 
                 headers and libraries are available
	- added: support for single-chain effect presets (-ps command 
		 line option)
	- fixed: bugs with OSS-input (device was sometimes closed 
                 multiple times resulting in core dumps)
	- fixed: auto-runmode used 'simple-iactive' mixmode
                 although iactive-mode wasn't set
	- fixed: looping wasn't working properly
	- fixed: -m option wasn't working
	- removed: simple filter effect (not really useful)
	- removed: 'Waiting for the processing thread'
		   messagebox (qtecasound)
100799 (v1.1.8r2):
	- fixed: more synchronisation bugs
050799 (v1.1.6r2):
	- added: rewrote the man-pages using Yodl; now they're 
 		 also available in HTML-format 
	- fixed: OSS-output module used a non-standard location
		 for soundcard.h (noticed by D.Phillips)
010799 (v1.1.5r2):
	- tested: did some real recording and mixing work with this 
	          version and after a few fixes, everything seems
	          to work ok
	- added: now checks whether a chainop supports parameter
		 controlling or not 
	- added: a lot of new documentation (especially to 
		 'Documentation/examples.html')
	- fixed: chain 'all' wasn't working properly
	- fixed: multitrack chain synchronization was broken; should 
		 now work even with complex setups
	- fixed: a serious bug in OSS-input: ecasound always threw 
 		 an "read-error" exception when trying to read from
		 OSS input
	- fixed: analyze effect (-ev) output didn't work
300699 (v1.1.4r1):
	- *notice* first release; should be considered beta
	- fixed: if mp3 files had white-spaces in their filenames, 
	         filenames weren't interpreted correctly
250699 (v1.1.3r0):
	- more bug fixes
	- tested rpm-packaging and seemed to work ok
230699 (v1.1.2r0):
       - bug fixes 
190699 (v1.1.1r0):
       - fixed: some bugs in exception handling 
       - qtecasound: added a not-implemented message screen! ;)
180699 (v1.1.0r0):
       - all major features of ecasound v0.9.x and earlier are 
         now implemented to the new program design 
       - support for gates (time crop gate and threshold gate
         implemented)
       - support for ~/.ecasoundrc configuration file
       - support for GNU autoconf and automake
       - added some new command line shortcuts
       - qtecasound: added a position slider widget (displays and
		     enables to change current position)
       - qtecasound: removed waveform and volume meter widgets;
		     they will reappear in the "Chain Setup" 
		     window (still under work)
160699 (v1.0.8r0):
       - mp3 output support (using lame) 
150699 (v1.0.7r0):
       - fixed: waveform -output now works with all inputs 
                (for instance showing mp3 waveforms is now possible)
       - routines for interfacing with mpg123 recoded; 
         a lot more stable than before
       - qtecasound now uses the new qt library (v2.0beta2)
       - support for various controllers (sine oscillator, MIDI 
         cc-controllers, generic oscillator etc)
       - fixed: when ecasound was stopped with ctrl-c or kill, 
                proper cleanup wasn't done
100699 (v1.0.6r0):
       - a new wave-form view 
080699 (v1.0.5r0):
       - multitrack-mode sync-routines rewritten and tested
       - various mixmode bugs fixed
040699 (v1.0.4r0):
       - simple graphical vu-meters added to test the new io-system
030699 (v1.0.3r0):
       - multithread-io mode: one chain can be processed and mixed 
         while waiting for getting data from other chains	
020699 (v1.0.2r0):
       - a better way to deal with system endianess
       - new chain-operator routines; unless there are no no chainops, 
         signal is always put through a clip control routine which 
         ensures that all sample values fit the value range
010699 (v1.0.1r0):
       - fixed a _lot_ of bugs
310599 (v1.0.0r0):
       - changed version numbering
       - major changes in nearly all program modules aiming at 
         a more modular and abstract design
       - fix: resonant_bandpass_filter wasn't working anymore
190599 (v0.9.10):
       - mp3 support using mpg123 (readonly)
       - X-Window GUI added (using Qt-libraries)
260499 (v0.9.x):
       - support for multitrack recording
       - independent effect chains
       - interactive command-line-interface (CLI)
       - looping (loop, loop_start, loop_end)
       - new debug -system
       - man -pages
311098 (v0.80):
       - support for MIDI-controllers
       - now uses glibc v2.0 and linuxthread libraries
041098 (v0.70):
       - began to upkeep this history file
       - fixing the gate-functions
---
1998:    - changed development platform from Os/2 to Linux
1997-98: - complete rewrite in C++; name changed from "wavstat" to "ecasound"
1995-97: - started working with this project; original program
           was called "wavstat" and it basicly was just
           a very simple command line DSP util (running under Os/2)
	
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