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 <news>
+  <entry date="2010-01-07">
+    The <link ref="reports/annual_report_2009.pdf">annual report of 2009</link>
+    with our financial situation is now online. Happy new year everybody!
+  </entry>
+  <entry date="2009-10-16">
+    Better a late than no announcement at all:
+    <list>
+      <li>linuxsampler 1.0.0</li>
+      <li>Fantasia 0.9</li>
+      <li>qsampler 0.2.2</li>
+      <li>gigedit 0.2.0</li>
+      <li>libgig 3.3.0</li>
+      <li>jlscp 0.8</li>
+      <li>liblscp 0.5.6</li>
+    </list>
+    This is the first release which allows the sampler to be used as audio
+    host plugin, namely supporting the standards VST, AU, DSSI and LV2. The
+    sampler's limits for max. voices &amp; disk streams can now be altered at
+    runtime by frontends, no need to recompile the sampler anymore. The Mac
+    version now also supports CoreAudio as audio driver. The Windows version
+    finally supports the sampler's instruments DB feature as well, however
+    expect it still to be unstable at this point. Along to the already
+    existing JACK audio driver, Jack MIDI support has been added in this
+    release. The sampler allows frontends now basic MIDI control, that is to
+    monitor incoming MIDI data on MIDI input devices and sampler channels and
+    to send note-on and note-off MIDI events to sampler channels, which
+    allows frontends to provide a virtual MIDI keyboard to the user. Besides
+    these major changes there were countless bugfixes and optimizations.
+  </entry>
+  <entry date="2009-05-12">
+    On the finish line to the upcoming next release of LinuxSampler and
+    friends, a beta pre-release for the Windows platform is now available
+    from our
+    <link ref="http://download.linuxsampler.org/dev/win/">download server</link>.
+    This is the first Windows version which includes a VST plugin version
+    of the sampler. The installer includes both, native 64 bit binaries and
+    32 bit binaries. The installer detects the system type and installs the
+    appropriate binaries automatically.
+    Please follow the ongoing discussion and development on our
+    <link ref="http://bb.linuxsampler.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&amp;t=339">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="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="http://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="http://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