--- qsampler/trunk/ChangeLog	2013/11/01 17:44:30	2480
+++ qsampler/trunk/ChangeLog	2018/12/03 12:04:14	3435
@@ -3,7 +3,144 @@
 
 ChangeLog
 
-SVN TRUNK
+
+GIT HEAD
+
+- Fixed MIDI and Audio device selection on the common sampler
+  channel settings dialog. (EXPERIMENTAL)
+
+- 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
+  stop the LinuxSampler backend, set the default selection to "Yes".
+
+* Master volume slider now getting proper layout when changing its
+  main toolbar orientation.
+
+* Messages standard output capture has been slightly improved
+  as for non-blocking i/o, whenever available.
+
+* 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.
+
+* Added support for SF2 instrument names/preset enumeration.
+
+* 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
+  (impolitely forcing the user now to have at least libgig 3.3.0).
+
+
+0.2.3  2013-12-31  A fifth of a Jubilee.
+
+* Allow the build system to include an user specified LDFLAGS.
 
 * More preparations for Qt5 configure build.
 
@@ -35,7 +172,7 @@
   Debian 6.
 
 * Moving from old deprecated Qt3'ish custom event post handling
-  into regular asynchronous signal/slot strategy. (EXPERIMENTAL)
+  into regular asynchronous signal/slot strategy.
 
 * Sampler channel and instrument file requester support for
   other than GIG engine instrument files (*gig; *.dls) has
@@ -250,7 +387,7 @@
 * 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.
@@ -303,7 +440,7 @@
 
 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