--- linuxsampler/trunk/ChangeLog	2007/09/15 11:05:38	1349
+++ linuxsampler/trunk/ChangeLog	2007/10/19 17:52:15	1454
@@ -1,6 +1,13 @@
 Version CVS HEAD (?)
 
   * packaging changes:
+    - added autoconf checks for pthread library
+    - added autoconf check for pthread bug found on certain NPTL-enabled
+      glibc versions (see Gentoo bug report #194076)
+
+Version 0.5.0 (15 October 2007)
+
+  * packaging changes:
     - config.h is not going to be installed along with liblinuxsampler's
       API header files anymore
     - only the API relevant header (and source) files will be exported to
@@ -9,6 +16,14 @@
       capable to execute our autoconf environment, thus no need anymore
       to maintain the compile time configuration file (osx/version.h) for
       OSX manually (patch by Toshi Nagata)
+    - fixed buggy boolean --enable-foo / --disable-foo configure script
+      parameters
+    - global.h now only covers global definitions that are needed for the
+      C++ API header files, all implementation internal global definitions
+      are now in global_private.h
+    - atomic.h is not exposed to the C++ API anymore
+    - no need to include config.h anymore for using LS's API header files
+    - fixed warnings in API doc generation
 
   * general changes:
     - replaced the old, confusing MIDI program change mechanism by a
@@ -45,7 +60,8 @@
     - added highly experimental support for on-the-fly instrument editing
       within the sampler's process (by using instrument editor plugins),
       you'll notice the new "Registered instrument editors:" message on
-      startup, added a new LSCP command "EDIT INSTRUMENT <sampler-channel>"
+      startup, added a new LSCP command:
+      "EDIT CHANNEL INSTRUMENT <sampler-channel>"
       to spawn a matching instrument editor for the instrument on the
       given sampler channel, the plugin path can be overridden at compile
       time with ./configure --enable-plugin-dir=/some/dir
@@ -66,6 +82,7 @@
       enabling a fast denormal FPU mode (x86 platforms supporting SSE2)
     - minor assembly fix in x86 features detection (don't use the PIC
       register, to avoid relocations in the text segment at runtime)
+    - POSIX callback functions of Thread.h are hidden
 
   * MIDI driver:
     - dispatch bank select (MSB and LSB) messages
@@ -108,11 +125,22 @@
       sequences, that is directly literal as one of: \', \", \\, \n, \r,
       \f, \t, \v, or as octal ASCII code value like \132, or as hex ASCII
       code value like \xf2) (fixes bug #24)
+    - the following LSCP commands now also support escape sequences for at
+      least one of their text-based parameters (i.e. name, description):
+      "ADD MIDI_INSTRUMENT_MAP", "MAP MIDI_INSTRUMENT",
+      "SET MIDI_INSTRUMENT_MAP NAME", "SET FX_SEND NAME", "CREATE FX_SEND",
+      "SET DB_INSTRUMENT_DIRECTORY NAME",
+      "SET DB_INSTRUMENT_DIRECTORY DESCRIPTION", "SET DB_INSTRUMENT NAME",
+      "SET DB_INSTRUMENT DESCRIPTION", "FIND DB_INSTRUMENTS",
+      "FIND DB_INSTRUMENT_DIRECTORIES"
     - returns verbose syntax errors (line and column where syntax error
       occured, the unexpected character and the actually expected, possible
       character(s), the latter only if less than 5 possibilities)
     - made sure that LSCP syntax is not affected by gigedit locale
       settings
+    - bugfix regarding strings parameter lists: all comma separated lists
+      of strings were treated as being one string containing commas
+      (fixes #57)
 
   * Bug fixes:
     - fixed crash occurring on certain LSCP scripts (Bug 39)