--- qsampler/trunk/ChangeLog	2015/01/22 19:01:32	2718
+++ qsampler/trunk/ChangeLog	2019/01/02 18:11:42	3451
@@ -6,6 +6,118 @@
 
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+- Bumped copyright headers into the New Year (2019).
+
+
+0.5.3  2018-12-06  An End of Autumn'18 Release.
+
+- Avoid saving plug-in sampler channels and related devices
+  to regular LSCP (*.lscp) session files.
+
+- Fixed MIDI and Audio device selection on the common sampler
+  channel settings dialog.
+
+- Old deprecated Qt4 build support is no more.
+
+- AppStream metadata updated to be the most compliant with
+  latest freedesktop.org specification and recommendation.
+
+
+0.5.2  2018-07-22  A Summer'18 Release.
+
+- AppData/AppStream metadata is now settled under an all
+  permisssive license (FSFAP).
+
+
+0.5.1  2018-05-21  Pre-LAC2018 release frenzy.
+
+- Disable singleton/unique application instance setup logic
+  when the display server platform is not X11.
+
+- Fixed device management dialog not responding to user changes.
+
+- A little hardening on the configure (autoconf) macro side.
+
+- Fixed minor memory leak in device management dialog.
+
+- Fixed unnecessary latency when closing app.
+
+
+0.5.0  2017-12-12  An Autumn'17 release.
+
+- French (fr) translation added by Olivier Humbert
+  (qsampler_fr.ts).
+
+- Desktop entry specification file is now finally independent
+  from build/configure template chains.
+
+- Updated target path for freedesktop.org's AppStream metainfo
+  file (formerly AppData).
+
+
+0.4.3  2017-04-27  Pre-LAC2017 release frenzy.
+
+- Added French man page (by Olivier Humbert, thanks).
+
+- Make builds reproducible byte for byte, by getting rid of
+  the configure build date and time stamps.
+
+
+0.4.2  2016-11-14  A Fall'16 release.
+
+* Fixed a potential crash on the singleton/unique application
+  instance setup.
+
+* Almost complete overhaul on the configure script command
+  line options, wrt. installation directories specification,
+  eg. --prefix, --bindir, --libdir, --datadir and --mandir.
+
+
+0.4.1  2016-09-14  End of Summer'16 release.
+
+* Fixed a race condition on creating sampler channels that ended
+  in duplicate channel strips; also fixed channel auto-arrange.
+  
+* Dropped the --enable-qt5 from configure as found redundant
+  given that's the build default anyway (suggestion by Guido
+  Scholz, while for Qtractor, thanks).
+
+* Automake: set environment variable GCC_COLORS=auto to allow GCC to
+  auto detect whether it (sh/c)ould output its messages in color.
+
+
+0.4.0  2016-04-05  Spring'16 release frenzy.
+
+* Added application keywords to freedesktop.org's AppData.
+
+* Prevent x11extras module from use on non-X11/Unix plaforms.
+
+* Messages standard output capture has been improved again, now
+  in both ways a non-blocking pipe may get.
+
+* Single/unique application instance control adapted to Qt5/X11.
+
+
+0.3.1  2015-07-19  Summer'15 release frenzy.
+
+* Fixed configure script's Qt include directory lookup for some
+  64bit Linux flavours.
+
+* Prefer Qt5 over Qt4 by default with configure script.
+
+* A new top-level widget window geometry state save and restore
+  sub-routine is now in effect.
+
+* Fixed for some strict tests for Qt4 vs. Qt5 configure builds.
+
+
+0.3.0  2015-03-25  Pre-LAC2015 release frenzy.
+
+* Added application description as freedesktop.org's AppData.
+
+* Added this "Don't ask/show this again" option to some if not most
+  of the nagging warning/error message boxes.
+
 * Mac OS X: Fixed default path of linuxsampler binary.
 
 * When closing qsampler and showing the user the dialog whether to
@@ -15,23 +127,22 @@
   main toolbar orientation.
 
 * Messages standard output capture has been slightly improved
-  as for non-blocking i/o, whenever available. (EXPERIMENTAL)
+  as for non-blocking i/o, whenever available.
 
-* Adjusted configure check for libgig to detect the new includedir.
+* Adjusted configure check for libgig to detect the new --includedir.
 
 * A man page has beed added (making up Matt Flax's work on
   debian, thanks).
 
-* Translations install directory change. (EXPERIMENTAL)
+* Translations install directory change.
 
 * Added support for SF2 instrument names/preset enumeration.
-  (EXPERIMENTAL)
 
 * Added instrument list popup on channel strip which shows up when
   the instrument name is clicked. Allows faster switching among
   instruments of the same file.
 
-* Adjusted configure check for libgig to detect its new libdir
+* Adjusted configure check for libgig to detect its new --libdir
   (impolitely forcing the user now to have at least libgig 3.3.0).
 
 
@@ -284,7 +395,7 @@
 * Minor fixing on the initial messages dock-window height.
 
 * Audio output channel routing configuration finally hits
-  the sampler channel dialog, at last! (EXPERIMENTAL).
+  the sampler channel dialog, at last!
 
 * All widget captions changed to include proper application
   title name prefix.
@@ -337,7 +448,7 @@
 
 0.1.0   2005-05-23  Device configuration breakthrough.
 
-* Device configuration is now complete (EXPERIMENTAL).
+* Device configuration is now complete.
 
 * [bug #9] Fixed for a LSCP command syntax convention
   consistency, regarding the enumeration of available