--- libgig/trunk/NEWS	2009/07/30 08:16:02	1953
+++ libgig/trunk/NEWS	2015/07/14 13:19:11	2785
@@ -1,3 +1,56 @@
+Version 4.0.0 (14 Jul 2015)
+
+  This major release of libgig adds support for other file formats:
+  SoundFont 2 (.sf2), KORG multi sample instruments (.KSF, .KMP) and AKAI
+  format sounds. The AKAI classes are a fork of Sébastien Métrot's libakai and
+  since it is released under a different license (LGPL) than libgig is (GPL),
+  the AKAI classes are built as separate DLL file. All other classes of those
+  new file formats are built and bundled with the existing libgig DLL. Thanks
+  to Grigor Iliev for his work on the SoundFont 2 classes! Please note that
+  there is currently no support for KORG's .PCG file format yet. That's because
+  this file format changes a lot and is not only dependent to the precise KORG
+  keyboard model, but also to the precise OS version on the same model. And
+  since basic conversion can also be done by just accessing the .KSF and .KMP
+  files (sample data, loop informations), the current classes should be
+  sufficient for many tasks. Adding support for KORG's .PCG files is not
+  planned at the moment.
+
+  Various new command line tools have been added as well to dump, extract and
+  convert between all those file formats now. Each one of it has a man page,
+  so please refer to the respective man page of the individual command line
+  tool for details.
+
+  The GigaStudio/Gigasampler classes received a load of fixes during the last
+  six years. And support for features introduced with the last official
+  GigaStudio 4 software (RIP) were added, for instance support for so called
+  "iMIDI Rules". Those rules allow i.e. to trigger notes by MIDI CC and to
+  define a sample set for legato playing style. In the meantime it seems as if
+  the GigaStudio software has seen its last version with GigaStudio 4, because
+  Tascam discontinued this product and the intellectual property of GigaStudio
+  had been sold several times between companies. It is currently not possible
+  to buy a new copy of GigaStudio anymore and we personally don't expect that
+  this situation will ever change.
+
+  Does this also mean the end of new features for libgig? Not really! Actually
+  we already started to add new features to the GigaStudio/Gigasampler format
+  which never existed with the GigaStudio/Gigasampler software: The most
+  noteworthy new feature added by us is support for real-time instrument
+  scripts. These are little "programs" which you can bundle with your .gig
+  sounds to add a custom behavior to your sounds when playing them with i.e.
+  LinuxSampler. Find out more about this new major feature on:
+
+        http://doc.linuxsampler.org/Instrument_Scripts/
+
+  There are also some more minor extensions to the .gig format, for example
+  support for far more MIDI CC's than originally allowed by the GigaStudio
+  software. Obviously all those custom extensions will not work with any
+  version of the official GigaStudio software, those new features will only
+  work with a recent version of LinuxSampler and gigedit at the moment.
+
+  Besides those major changes, a load of convenient methods have been added to
+  the existing libgig classes to reduce the overall effort working with all
+  those file formats with software applications based on libgig.
+
 Version 3.3.0 (30 Jul 2009)
 
   Partial support for MIDI rules, the rest are just bug fixes.