--- linuxsampler/trunk/ChangeLog	2009/02/21 16:11:17	1842
+++ linuxsampler/trunk/ChangeLog	2009/06/12 18:55:35	1917
@@ -11,6 +11,10 @@
     - fixes for building with newer MinGW versions
     - fix for building with bison 2.4 (#111)
     - fixed building with libgig installed in a non-standard directory
+    - minor fix in configure for mmsystem.h detection on MinGW
+    - Windows: look for editor plugins and Fantasia using base
+      directory of liblinuxsampler dll
+    - configure script fix: removed unconditional use of SSE
 
   * general changes:
     - bugfix: on some POSIX systems instrument editor plugins refused to
@@ -41,6 +45,15 @@
     - automatic stacktrace mechanism is now turned off by default and can
       be switched on by command line option "--stacktrace" (the automatic
       stacktrace mechanism seems to be broken on most systems at the moment)
+    - C++ API method InstrumentManager::LaunchInstrumentEditor() now returns
+      a pointer to the launched InstrumentEditor object
+    - added optional 3rd party user data parameter for following
+      liblinuxsampler C++ API methods: InstrumentEditor::Main(),
+      InstrumentEditor::Launch(),
+      InstrumentManager::LaunchInstrumentEditor()
+    - theoretical fix: made SynchronizedConfig follow C++0x memory
+      model more strictly
+    - fixes for using large audio device buffers
 
   * audio driver:
     - removed the nonsense audio channel constraint (which was hard coded to
@@ -54,12 +67,27 @@
     - JACK: use jack_client_open instead of the deprecated
       jack_client_new
     - added (experimental) CoreAudio driver
+    - applied old fixes to the ASIO driver that were included in the
+      previous binary release but accidentally never committed to CVS
+      (fixes #117)
+    - fixes for ASIO on mingw-w64 (iasio wrapper is not needed on
+      win64)
+    - VST: added support for sample rate and buffer size changes
+    - VST: close editor (Fantasia) when the VST is removed
+    - VST: avoid opening Fantasia more than once for each VST instance
+    - VST: export main function as "main" on Linux too (fix for
+      energyXT)
+    - VST: changed number of output channels from one stereo to 16
+      stereo
 
   * MIDI driver:
     - added JACK MIDI driver
     - dispatch bank select as ordinary CC as well, the user might seriously
       want to (mis)use it for some purpose ("fixed" in all current MIDI
       input drivers: ALSA, CoreMIDI, JACK, MidiShare, MME)
+    - bugfix: pitch bend wasn't working with JackMidi, VST, LV2, MME,
+      CoreMidi or AU
+    - fixed mingw-w64 compilation error in MME driver
 
   * instruments database:
     - avoid time consuming samples scanning when adding instruments
@@ -68,6 +96,15 @@
     - Implemented option for adding instruments in separate directories
       in the instruments database
       (patch by Chris Cherrett & Andrew Williams, a bit adjusted)
+    - work-around for missing fnmatch function on Windows to make
+      instrument database compilable
+	- added instrument database support on Windows
+	  works with both standalone mode and VST plugin.
+	  the instruments DB file is located in
+	  %USERPROFILE%\.linuxsampler\instruments.db which allows different
+	  databases for each windows user
+	  if no DB is present it automatically creates the .linuxsampler subdir 
+	  and then creates an empty DB
 
   * Gigasampler format engine:
     - fixed a memory leak that could happen when a channel was deleted
@@ -94,6 +131,23 @@
       defined for the sampler
     - made it possible to create multiple sample channels even if the
       audio thread isn't running
+    - fixed crash when removing channel with active voices (#116)
+    - bugfix: on sample reference changes (instrument editor), only
+      un-cache the respective sample if it's really not used by any
+      sampler engine anymore
+    - re-cache samples in case they were changed by an instrument editor,
+      e.g. when a sample was added while playing (#82)
+    - fixed hanging notes which occured when note-off event had the exact
+      same time stamp as the voice's note-on event and occured both in the
+      same audio fragment cycle (fixes bug #112)
+    - added support for the "fine tune" and "pitch bend range"
+      instrument-level gig parameters
+    - fixed minor artifacts in pitch bend handling
+    - added support for GS Reset SysEx message
+    - allow gig files to use unlimited downward pitch shifting
+    - added a limit check for upward pitch shifting
+    - bugfix: sometimes, when playing a note twice fast, the second
+      note was silent
 
   * LSCP server:
     - added new LSCP event "CHANNEL_MIDI" which can be used by frontends to
@@ -119,6 +173,10 @@
       which will be triggered respectively
     - bugfix: retry if "select" returns EINTR (this fixes a crash when
       a gigedit file dialog is opened)
+    - close all connections when LSCPServer is deleted
+    - hard close of all sockets on exit
+    - bugfix: SET CHANNEL MIDI_INPUT_TYPE didn't work with the MME
+      driver
 
   * Bug fixes:
     - fixed a crash which occurs when removing a sampler channel waiting
@@ -134,6 +192,16 @@
       GET MIDI_INPUT_DRIVER INFO
       GET MIDI_INPUT_DRIVER_PARAMETER INFO
     - fixed possible compilation error when sqlite is not present
+    - fixed orphaned pointers when setting maximum voices limit (bug #118)
+    - fixed crash when changing the audio output device of a sampler
+      channel with loaded instrument and start playing notes
+    - fixed endless loop in Engine::SuspendAll() (bug #120)
+    - fixed a low-level atomic load function that was broken on 64-bit
+      PowerPC, which probably could cause crashes on that platform
+    - fixed a memory management error which could cause a crash when a
+      plugin was unloaded
+    - bugfix: two private structs had the same name, which could cause
+      problems if the linker chose the wrong constructor
 
 
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