--- linuxsampler/trunk/NEWS	2015/07/15 20:31:21	2788
+++ linuxsampler/trunk/NEWS	2019/07/27 11:18:17	3537
@@ -1,3 +1,67 @@
+Version 2.1.1 (27 Jul 2019)
+
+  This is a maintenance release with various fixes. There are only two
+  minor new features in this release:
+
+  The Giga format engine adds a format extension which allows sound
+  designers to define whether release trigger samples shall be played when
+  the sustain pedal is released. In the previous release this was actually
+  the default behaviour by the sampler, but meanwhile there was a consensus
+  on the mailing list that release samples being triggered by sustain pedal
+  is not the common, expected behaviour. So this is no longer the default
+  behaviour, but you can still opt in to this old behaviour by using this
+  new format extension option (i.e. by using latest release version of
+  libgig and gigedit and enabling the respective checkbox for your
+  gig instrument). If you don't enable this option then release samples are
+  now only triggered by note-off events.
+
+  The sfz engine adds support for the commonly used built-in sample
+  '*silence' of the sfz format. It does what you think it does; it
+  instructs the sampler to play no sound at all. This is commonly used
+  in sfz files for instance for the lowest velocity switch to not play any
+  sample. With the previous release trying to load sfz files which used this
+  built-in sample caused a file loading error. There are various other
+  commonly used built-in samples in sfz files which you can denote by the
+  leading star character in the sample name, however the '*silence' one is
+  currently the only supported built-in sample by our sfz engine yet. Trying
+  to load sfz files which are using other built-in samples does not prevent
+  your instrument from being loaded by the sampler, however you will get a
+  warning message on the console that the built-in sample is not supported
+  yet and the sampler will simply play silence for that non supported
+  built-in sample.
+
+Version 2.1.0 (25 November 2017)
+
+  This release adds a large amount of extensions and improvements for the
+  real-time instrument scripting support of LinuxSampler (NKSP).
+  For example 48 new built-in NKSP functions and 21 new built-in NKSP
+  variables have been added. Also the NKSP language itself was extended.
+  Most notably the script engine now has an execution scheduler which is
+  the basis for many of the timing relevant new NKSP features in this
+  release, like programmatically suspending and resuming scripts for an
+  exact amount of time or triggering or killing notes at very precise
+  times. Bitwise operators have been added to NKSP, as well as support for
+  read only built-in variables, "synchronized" code blocks
+  ("synchronized .. end synchronized"), user declared functions and user
+  declared const array variables have been added to the NKSP language,
+  and automatic suspension of RT threatening scripts by the RT script engine
+  has been implemented. Also syntax error messages with NKSP scripts have
+  been improved to output more clear and user friendly error messages, as
+  well as NKSP editor API has been improved which brings handy new features
+  to gigedit's NKSP script editor like automatically graying out code blocks
+  which are disabled by NKSP preprocessor statements.
+
+  The SFZ engine now supports <global>, <master>, #define and set_ccN
+  statements. And finally the SFZ engine now supports NKSP real-time
+  instrument scripts as well by adding a new "script" opcode.
+
+  Also the Instruments Database feature has received important maintenance
+  fixes. Before this release the instrument DB feature was barely usable
+  for quite some time. Fundamental instruments DB issues have been fixed in
+  this release to finally consider this feature stable again.
+
+  And finally this release provides a huge amount of general bug fixes.
+
 Version 2.0.0 (15 July 2015)
 
   The sampler's code base has seen substantial changes in the last six years,