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 <news>
+  <entry date="2009-02-17">
+    Cheers Mac users! LinuxSampler is finally available as AudioUnit plugin!
+    It's still a work in progress, but you might already want to checkout
+    the experimental AU binary package of LinuxSampler, available from our
+    <link ref="http://download.linuxsampler.org/dev/mac/">download server</link>.
+    As this is still an early development version, please follow the ongoing
+    discussion and development on our
+    <link ref="https://bb.linuxsampler.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&amp;t=295">web forum</link>
+    and <link ref="http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=linuxsampler-devel">developers' mailing list</link>
+    to avoid known problems. Feedback appreciated!
+  </entry>
+  <entry date="2008-02-15">
+    We're happy to announce that the first freely available sample library
+    is now available on our downloads server. Thanks to Mats Helgesson for
+    giving us the permission to share his "Maestro Concert Grand v2" piano
+    library with you. You find the download link along with the library's
+    license informations and a demo track for prelistening on our
+    <link ref="instruments.html">instruments</link> site.
+  </entry>
+  <entry date="2008-02-07">
+    Added <link ref="debian.html">Debian Howto</link> to the documentation
+    site, describing how to cook Debian packages, optimized for your
+    specific machine. Get the maximum out of your box! (The
+    <link ref="debian.html#benchmark">"Benchmark"</link>
+    chapter might be interesting for users of other systems as well)
+  </entry>
+  <entry date="2008-01-23">
+    Due to popular demand we finally launched a forum for this project. The
+    place to be and share questions, stories and the latest gossip is
+    <link ref="https://bb.linuxsampler.org">bb.linuxsampler.org</link>
+  </entry>
+  <entry date="2008-01-03">
+    Hey Mac Users! We hope to give you a good way to start the new year
+    by announcing that LinuxSampler is now officially
+    available for OS X as well! You find an installer (disk image) of the
+    latest release of LinuxSampler and QSampler for OS X on our
+    <link ref="http://www.linuxsampler.org/downloads.html">downloads site</link>.
+    Please note: gigedit is not yet available for Mac, we still need to do some
+    work on this. Same applies to JSampler unfortunately, because the required
+    Java version 1.6 is not officially available for Mac yet. Have a look
+    at the <link ref="osx.html">OS X HOWTO</link> for an easy start.
+  </entry>
+  <entry date="2007-12-26">
+    You tried out the young Windows version of LinuxSampler and encountered
+    problems? Check out the
+    <link ref="http://linuxsampler.org/windows.html#houston">Trouble
+    Shooting Section</link> of the LinuxSampler Windows HOWTO. It still
+    doesn't solve your problem? You can ask for help on our
+    <link ref="http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linuxsampler-devel">
+    Mailing List
+    </link>. If you found bugs, please report them to our
+    <link ref="http://bugs.linuxsampler.org">Bug Tracking System</link>.
+  </entry>
+  <entry date="2007-12-07">
+    Another strike:
+    <list>
+      <li>linuxsampler 0.5.1</li>
+      <li>jsampler 0.8a</li>
+      <li>qsampler 0.2.1</li>
+      <li>gigedit 0.1.1</li>
+      <li>libgig 3.2.1</li>
+      <li>jlscp 0.7a</li>
+    </list>
+    What do you expect from a sampler called LinuxSampler? Exactly: that it
+    <link ref="screenshots/win32_premiere.png">conquers the Windows
+    world</link>. This is the first official release of our applications for
+    the Windows platform, providing a convenient all-in-one installer tagged
+    "20071207". Supported drivers for this new system are so far: MME for
+    MIDI and ASIO for audio. Needless to say that there still might be
+    plenty of issues on Windows. Also note that the instruments database
+    feature is not ported yet. Have a look at the
+    <link ref="windows.html">Windows HOWTO</link> for a smooth start.
+    Beside this first Windows release, this is merely a bugfix release, i.e.
+    fixing a serious crash in LinuxSampler. Retrieving instrument names from
+    .gig files with the frontends is now much faster, so better keep that
+    option always on in QSampler from now on. With gigedit you can now edit
+    multiple (dimension) regions simultaniously. JSampler is finally able
+    to retrieve instrument names of instrument files and even remotely from
+    another machine, beside minor cosmetics like a total stream count
+    and volume displayed in dB, as well as couple bug fixes. QSampler gave
+    Qt3 an official funeral and is finally completely ported to Qt4. A lot
+    of the QSampler code base has changed due to this. So you still might
+    encounter bugs. Beside that the device management dialog received couple
+    of bug fixes.
+  </entry>
   <entry date="2007-10-23">
     As you might have noticed, we had issues with our linuxsampler.org DNS
     names in the last two days, because it was dependent to a foreign server