Update administrative files in preparation for 2.6-alpha3.

git-svn-id: svn://daper.net/moc/trunk@2932 910807d9-36e0-0310-a014-e9ea483e2ba4

Author: John Fitzgerald

NEWS

@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+   [Note that all relevant maintenance applied to the stable version has
+    also been applied to the development version.  You should review the
+    development version changes in conjunction with those of the current
+    stable version maintenance releases.]
+
+
 2.6 - "Usability"  [alpha2: 2016-04-24]
 	* Autotools and packaging changes:
 	  - Dropped version micro number for development versions
@@ -7,6 +13,7 @@
 	  - 'make dist': now defaults to XZ compression
 	  - curl-config: replaced by pkg-config
 	  - New GCC-5 and 6 warnings addressed
+	  - Removed checks for POSIX.1 and C99 mandated headers and functions
 	* Changed minimum support and release requirements:
 	  - POSIX.1: introduced minimum requirement of IEEE 1003.1-2001
 	  - C Compiler: introduced minimum requirement of ISO 9899:1999
@@ -29,22 +36,45 @@
 	  - Removed "Search Next" interface command
 	* Changed functionality:
 	  - Decoupled mono-mixing from softmixer
+	  - Made command line toggling arguments case insensitive
 	* Added functionality:
 	  - Introduced in-memory circular logging buffer
 	  - Introduced MOCP_POPTRC environment variable
 	  - Introduced MOCP_OPTS environment variable
+	  - Add 24-bit support to the OSS sound driver (Vladimir Krylov)
 	* New and changed command line options:
 	  - echo-args: Show POPT-interpreted command line arguments
 	* New and changed audio decoders:
-	  - Added reading from Internet streams to FFmpeg decoder
+	  - All sndfile-supported extensions are now available
+	  - Added .mat[45] extensions as aliases for .mat in sndfile decoder
+	  - Added .ircam extension as alias for .sf in sndfile decoder
+	  - Added reading from Internet streams to FFmpeg decoder (Jenny Wong)
 	* Changes to supported formats and codecs:
 	  - All formats provided by Sndfile are now supported
 	  - DSD: now supported via FFmpeg/LibAV (.dff and .dsf files)
 	  - TTA: now supported via FFmpeg/LibAV
 	  - VQF: now supported via FFmpeg/LibAV
 	* Miscellaneous
 	  - Improved logging from ALSA sound driver and library
+	  - Fixed displayed ALSA volume percentage drift
+
+2.5.2  [2016-XX-XX]
+	* New configuration file options:
+	  - ALSAStutterDefeat: avoid the ALSA bug which causes stuttering
+	* Significant bug fixes:
+	  - Fixed error during configure on busybox systems
+	  - Fixed calculation of average bitrate in FLAC decoder
+	  - Fixed unintentional disabling of MMAP support
+	  - Fixed build failure on split ncurses/tinfo systems
+	  - Fixed unreaped children when running in foreground mode
+	  - Fixed freeze on Nokia devices if audios play to completion
+	  - Circumvented ALSA stutter bug
+	  - Added missing 'Precache' option to example config file
+	* Miscellaneous:
+	  - Improved the accuracy of the average bitrate for FLAC
+	  - Mitigated out-of-file seeking for several formats
 	  - Warn of TagLib version requirement rising to 1.5
+	  - Warn of Musepack library changing to libmpc (from libmpcdec)
 
 2.5.1  [2016-02-24]
 	* Significant bug fixes:

THANKS

@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ Daniel T. Borelli:
 	* Added a configuration option to set the initial percent played state.
 	* Fixed miscellaneous coding errors.
 	* Assisted with testing.
+	* Provided basis for fixing foreground mode unreaped children.
 
 Morten Grunnet Buhl:
 	* Provided Yellow/Red theme.
@@ -103,6 +104,9 @@ Florian Kriener:
 	* Provided title building code.
 	* Corrected many typos and fixed many bugs.
 
+Vladimir Krylov:
+	* Added 24-bit support to the OSS sound driver.
+
 Maciej Kubiak:
 	* Suggestions and bug reports.
 
@@ -235,6 +239,9 @@ Marien Zwart:
 	* Fixed segfault when trying to play a file using FFmpeg.
 	* Migrated to newer FFmpeg API.
 
+"exc":
+	* Pointed to an ALSA optimisation with joined channels.
+
 "firejox":
 	* Fixed screen upsets due to UTF-8 character handing.
 
@@ -243,6 +250,7 @@ Marien Zwart:
 
 "GenghisKhan":
 	* Reported bugs and significantly helped debugging them.
+	* Greatly assisted with debugging the ALSA stutter bug.
 
 "meh":
 	* Provided code to prefer reading ID3 tags v2 over v1.
@@ -253,9 +261,15 @@ Marien Zwart:
 "thotypous":
 	* Provided code to allow use of the OSSv4 per-application mixer API.
 
+"tokapix":
+	* Provided additional proving of the ALSA stutter bug fix.
+
 "tyranix":
 	* Provided new command 'Y' to prune unreadable files from the playlist.
 
+"vectis":
+	* Assisted with debugging the ALSA stutter bug.
+
 "zaphod":
 	* Some strcpy() to strncpy() changes.