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0.9.2 [2016-06-26]

• recording via Qt Multimedia
• using KDE service API for loading plugins
• bugfix: screenshot function sometimes returned 1x1 image only (bug in Qt
  QWidget::frameGeometry is broken, but QWindow::frameGeometry works)
• Gentoo ebuild updated to EAPI=6
• removed unneeded build and runtime dependencies
• removed optimized memcpy for PowerPC
• record plugin: improved handling of error messages
• record plugin: added retry mechanism in case of device busy
• added menu entries for recording and record setup
• import of Core Audio Format (*.caf), using ALAC, A-LAW, U-LAW and IMA
  compression
• import of Sample Vision Format (*.smp)
• import of NIST SPHERE Audio File Format (*.nist)
• import of Creative Voice files (*.voc)
• import Audio Visual Research File Format (*.avr)
• import of Amiga IFF/8SVX Sound File Format (*.8svx)
• handbook: description of parameters of the record plugin was missing
• handbook: fixed duplicate ":" in header of plugin parameter descriptions
• made Kwave::SampleFormat and Kwave::Compression independent from libaudiofile

0.9.1 [2016-02-21]

• ported to KDE Frameworks 5 (KF5) / Qt5
• playback via Qt Multimedia
• bugfix: saved plugin parameter lists with escaped characters were not
  unescaped when loading again
• compile fix for armv7l
• codec_mp3: added missing "help" button to encoder setup dialog
• fixed invocation of file dialog, as suggested by EBN
• support for cmake > 3.3, fix for policy CMP0063
• cmdline option "--nofork" no longer exists
• bugfix: multiple issues in context of switching the GUI type in scripts
• bugfix: fixed issues in saveblocks plugin with special characters in
  filenames and patterns, format strings of second and later invocations
  of patterns were ignored
• saveblocks: allow path separators in filename patterns to make it possible
  to create subdirectories
• saveblocks: added patterns to include file info (file meta data) or the
  title of the current block
• workaround for bug in KDE #345320 (missing translators in help/about dialog)
• about plugin: added info about translation team
• added screenshot of the edit_label dialog
• bugfix: tooltips of the fileinfo dialog were not translated
• new make target: "make msgstats" to show the progress of translations
• compile fix for armv7l
• playback: dropped Phonon support (was broken and no longer supported by KF5)
• bugfix: hourglass cursor was not taken back in playback setup dialog
• RPM: format of changelog has changed
• changed plugin install directory and prefix/suffix
• curve widget: use same colors as in frequency response widget, for better
  readability on bright color themes

0.9.0 [2015-05-25]

• first version hosted on KDE (kdereview) and SourceForge
• added command line parameter for selecting the GUI type
• in MDI mode: new menu entry + function to arrange sub windows vertically
• handbook: added text command reference
• handbook: added plugin reference
• enabled the "Help" buttons of all plugins and let them open the corresponding
  section in the handbook
• make system: new target "update-handbook" (updates command, file info
  and plugin cross references)
• make system: fixed dependency problem in translation
• new commands: "window:sendkey", "window:screenshot", "window:close"
  and "window:resize"
• built-in variable ${LANG} for kwave commands
• support for delayed command execution
• debug plugin: always compiled in, but only visible in debug build
• new command sync(): wait for commands scheduled with delayed
• bugfix: exporting a mono file as MP3 produced a stereo MP3 file
• MP3: emphasis, copyrighted, original got lost during save/load
• file info dialog: MPEG settings were not handled properly
• bugfix: assert/numeric overflow in selectnextlabels() at end of file
• new plugin: stringenter
• bugfix: minimized windows were not migrated properly when switching GUI type
• new command: window:minimize
• bugfix: missing range check in noise generator (when used per script)
• bugfix: saveblocks plugin did not work when omitting file extension
• saveblocks plugin: use escaped strings for storing settings instead of base64

0.8.99-2 [2015-01-02]

• bugfix: wrong sub window mode when switching to tab mode when having only
  one sub window (workaround for bug in Qt)
• bugfix: recording did not work in MDI and Tab mode (wrong file context)
• bugfix: fixed passing a text command as first command line parameter

0.8.99 [2014-12-28]

• GUI: implemented SDI, MDI and Tab GUI types
• bugfix: deadlock in class Track
• bugfix: segfault during shutdown of logger
• bugfix: segfault when unloading plugins (on some systems)
• bugfix: "zoom to selection" was not disabled if nothing was selected
• bugfix: toolbar buttons for cut/copy/erase/delete did not properly get
  enabled/disabled on change of selection
• bugfix: overview widget did not properly refresh after deleting all tracks
• bugfix: assert in vorbis decoder when opening file with bitrate -1
• menu subsystem: added support for lists within a menu
• menu subsystem: show/hide toplevel menu entries
• menu subsystem: added support for exclusive selection (radio buttons)
• menu subsystem: let KDE chose shortcuts automatically
• added menu entry to clear "recently opened files" list
• implemented URL scheme for passing text commands from the command line
  example: kwave --iconic --disable-splashscreen test.wav \
  kwave:plugin%3Aexecute?normalize \
  kwave:save \
  kwave:quit
• using perl scripts creating for i18n from menus.config and for getting
  entries from lsm files, no longer need awk, sort, uniq
• creating menu translation template directly per perl script instead
  of generated dummy cpp file (requires "msgcat")
• menu translations: assign a context to each menu entry
• bugfix: division through zero on ogg files with invalid bitrate info
• manual: added section about GUI types
• i18n: translations were missing in kwave.desktop

0.8.12 [2014-06-04]

• recording via PulseAudio, by Joerg-Christan Boehme joerg@chaosdorf.de
• bugfix: "Close" button of the record dialog did not save settings
• bugfix: amplify free plugin: untranslated action names in progress bar
• bugfix: sonagram plugin did not honor the windowing function parameter
• bugfix: coherency problems in overview cache
• bugfix: metadata got lost after cut/undo/redo
• bugfix: save/as check against overwriting existing files failed
• bugfix: undo/redo did not work after recording
• bugfix: signal was "modified" after canceled record (empty) / done
• bugfix: wrong calculation of zoom and window geometry at startup
• bugfix: wrong scaling of overview in sonagram window
• bugfix: playback pointer did not update synchronously across tracks
• bugfix: brought back support for optimized memcpy (from xine-lib)
• updated memcpy.c + cpu detection, including AVX assembler support
• new command line option: "--logfile=<file>" for logging to a file</file>
• brought back the horizontal scroll bar
• support for swap files to store undo data
• speedup: too many copy-on-write operations, use more const data
• improved robustness against out of memory situations
• memory manager: added statistics for debugging
• memory settings: only use up to 25% of process address space
• internal cleanups: renamed openSampleReader -> openReader,
  fixed signature of Signal/SignalManager::openWriter
• speedup: use stripe list instead of raw data for saving undo data
• debug plugin: added functions "labels_at_stripes", "sawtooth_verify"
  and "dump_metadata"
• automatic defragmentation of stripes
• sonagram plugin: use Qt Concurrent framework -> more than factor 40
  faster on a quad core cpu
• got rid of KDE ThreadWeaver, replaced with Qt Concurrent framework
• debug plugin: added function "fm_sweep"
• workaround for broken WAV files with zeroed fact chunk
• fixed many 32/64 bit issues
• new build target "make wrapper": creates a wrapper script to start Kwave
  for test/debug purpose
• new build target "make dep": creates a binary debian package
  (for personal use and testing purposes)
• mouse wheel + Ctrl: zoom in/out aligns signal to mouse position
• record plugin: level meter is always enabled, simplified dialog
• PulseAudio playback: fixed wrong timeout calculation
• requires at least Qt-4.7 + FLAC-1.2.0

0.8.11 [2013-11-24]

• added spanish translation, provided by Carlos R.
• bugfix: file names were not properly escaped in context of file/open,
  file/openrecent and drag&drop
• bugfix: saveblocks() did not abort properly when pressing cancel
• unclean shutdown of the file progress dialog when saving
• noise plugin: add noise (mix) instead of overwrite, with adjustable
  level in percent or dB
• pause button: change tooltip to "continue" if paused
• new command line option: "--disable-splashscreen"
• new command line option: "--iconic" to start minimized
• fixed quoting errors in CMakeLists.txt (cmake-2.8.12 complained)
• bugfix: ASCII encoder: escape special characters in meta data
• implementation of ASCII import
• memory settings: raised default memory limits
• bugfix: crash in file info dialog / auto generate keywords
• MP3 plugin: use ID3 tag TSSE for software version
• ASCII codec: implemented support for labels

0.8.10 [2013-02-09]

• file name cleanup: removed "Kwave" prefix
• bugfix: added range checks for track selection commands
• reverted changes in sample writer due to problems in debug mode (commits
  ee54660d4380d264b7346a904eff9dd8d8d00a93 and
  6fba04db879ea7ae1fdf79141dd93d47f9c1d403)
• bugfix: unwanted termination if splash screen closed while the first
  toplevel widget still was starting up
• moved code into namespace "Kwave"
• cleanup: remove support for outdated FLAC API versions below 1.1.3
• removed unused code: libkwave/FileFormat.*
• renamed source files with "Kwave" in the name
• added subsystem prefix to inclusion of Qt header files
• using bit types from qt (e.g. u_int32_t => quint32)
• compile with DQT_NO_CAST_TO_ASCII and QT_NO_CAST_FROM_ASCII
• bugfix: recording via OSS did not handle invalid devices properly
• improved auto detect of svg-to-png conversion,
  added support for "rsvg-convert" (SF bug #38)
• removed dependency to ImageMagick if "rsvg" is available
• replaced libkwave/byteswap.h with generic Qt functions
• replaced some Qt classes with their KDE equivalent:
  KLineEdit, KComboBox, KDialogButtonBox, KPushButton, KTabWidget, KTextEdit
• using KDE standard buttons in dialogs
• simplified plugin loading mechanism, do load/unload only at start/end of
  the program
• delete plugin settings of old versions when detected
• using QLibrary instead of functions from libdl
• bugfix: shutdown sequence was incomplete
• bugfix: keyboard shortcut for first menu entry did not work
• bugfix: ambiguous keyboard shortscut for "File/New Window"
• bugfix: undo of "modify label" caused loss of other labels
• bugfix: use timeout for phonon playback, to avoid hang on unusable devices
• using klocale for formating numbers of samples
• added common base class for all codec plugins
• reduced quality level of sample rate converter from "best" to "medium",
  to improve speed
• refactored playback handling (controller vs. plugin)
• workaround for bug in Phonon: no device names available in first call to
  Phonon::BackendCapabilities::availableAudioOutputDevices()
• moved playback test into worker thread, for better GUI responsiveness
• Phonon playback: changed to own mainloop with timeout support to avoid
  application hang on broken audio devices
• bugfix: data loss in sample rate converter when processing streams
• vorbis encoder: call to deprecated API (now use OV_ECTL_RATEMANAGE2_SET)
• using estimated length for streaming file formats without length info
• made sample rate conversion (libsamplerate) mandantory
• increased default memory sizes
• added toolbar buttons for "File/SaveAs" and "File/Close"
• reordered toolbars

0.8.9 [2012-11-06]

• new feature: MP3 export via external program "lame", "toolame" and
  "twolame", with configurable command line options
• new feature: allow change of compression type via file info
• fix for SF #3528848, removed -Wl,--add-needed from plugin LINK_FLAGS
• speedup: improved performance of sample writer
• wav import/export: support for some more meta data tags
• bugfix: meta data lost when writing wav files that had meta data for
  product/album or subject/track at the same time
• bugfix: broken signal/slot connection in SaveBlocks plugin
• workaround for bug in id3lib, SF #3534143:
  ignore id3lib crc check result for MPEG Layer II files
• bugfix: Gentoo ebuild lacked required svg use flag for media-gfx/imagemagick
  and media-gfx/graphicsmagick
• bugfix: File/SaveAs now uses last recently used directory and extension
  together with the user defined file name
• bugfix: PluginManager::sync caused application slowdown or stale GUI

0.8.8 [2012-05-20]

• new feature: seek functionality for playback
• new feature: added toolbar with record/playback/scroll functions
• migration to GIT as source code management
• documentation update
• allowing zoom and scroll while a plugin is running
• allow "close" and "quit" while playback is running
• allow track selection change during playback
• fix for namespace collision with libaudiofile
• bugfix: mouse selection update with negative offset failed
• bugfix: wrong focus of progress dialog when repairing damaged wav files
• bugfix: missing updates of zoom selection combo box
• bugfix: when viewing with full zoom, scroll by 1 sample was possible
• bugfix: focus was wrong on program start (zoom combo box)
• bugfix: wrong view when moving slider of overview widget to negative value
• bugfix: playback pointer did not disappear after play - pause - stop
• bugfix: creating a label without text was not possible
• bugfix: saving WAV with G.711 and non-16bits/sample produced broken output
• bugfix: handling of shortened tracks in encoders

0.8.7 [2011-11-27]

• ebuild update for media-gfx/imagemagick <-> media-gfx/graphicsmagick
  (see gentoo bug #314325)
• new feature: "insert at", paste clipboard at given position
• fix for API change in libaudiofile v0.3.1
• speedup: loading ogg/mp3 is much faster now (up to factor 2)
• bugfix: stream name of pulse audio playback used wrong encoding
• update of the Kwave spec file (synced with OpenSuSE build service version)
• new build target "distfiles"
• updated version of the GPL v2 document (GNU-LICENSE)
• support for visualization plugins

0.8.6 [2011-03-07]

• bugfix: copy/paste with partial track selection failed
• bugfix: labels update after undo of copy&paste failed on multitrack signals
• string/i18n update from Panagiotis Papadopoulos
• bugfix: invocation of xgettext was wrong, left untranslated strings
• plugin API change: support for translateable short description
• about plugin: use plugin info from PluginManager
• bugfix: last directory of file dialogs sometimes got lost
• bugfix: wrong message when canceling Ogg import
• replaced sched_yield() with QThread::yieldCurrentThread()
• added cmake parameter for disabling optimized memcpy support
  -D WITH_OPTIMIZED_MEMCPY=OFF, default is ON
• integrated patch #3021795 for Qt-4.7 compatibility
• bugfix: optimized memcpy for PPC (SF bug #3068664)
• doc: upgrade to DocBook XML V4.2 / V1.1
• build fixes for qt-4.7
• no longer using QSplashScreen (has side effects, operates as modal window)
• bugfix: startup as unique application did not work correctly
• bugfix: potential crash in message loop of progress dialog
• bugfix: handling of track selection was wrong in reverse plugin
• workaround for bug in libaudiofile: some files have sampe rate zero,
  falling back to 8000 samples/sec in that case (audio/x-ircam, sun, BE)
• bugfix: reverse failed on files smaller than the internal block size
• using entities for URLs in handbook, to simplify maintenance
• bugfix in cmake files: some invocations of STREQUAL lacked quotes

0.8.5 [2009-12-24]

• new feature: playback via PulseAudio
• applied kwave-0.8.2-nolinguas.patch (see gentoo bug #267702)
• support for the Gentoo build system that steals .po files
• no longer default to english language for documentation and gui l10n
• fixed use count mismatch of plugins
• bugfix: playback control: continuing after pause continued from start
• bugfix: G.711 encoded wav files support only 16 bit signed format
• new assignment for mouse wheel:
• without modifier key: scroll left/right
• with Shift: page left/right
• with Ctrl: zoom in/out
• with Alt: vertical zoom in/out
• bugfix: support sysinfo.mem_unit when >= 4GB RAM are installed
• bugfix: crash in progress dialog handling (crashed when closing a plugin
  after finishing it's work)
• new ebuild for Gentoo

0.8.4 [2009-09-26]

• new feature: support for primitive macros (batch files), playback only
• new plugin: change sample rate
• using libsamplerate (new dependency)
• new feature: sample rate conversion on clipboard data
• new feature: abillity to set recording start time in advance
  (feature requested by John David Thompson)
• bugfix: drag&drop of files on the main window was broken
• workaround for bug in id3lib which crashed in ID3_Tag::GetSize()
  with some MP3 files (see id3lib upstream bug at SF #2821464)
• bugfix: recording via ALSA, crash on snd_pcm_close(),
  see SF bug #2816544
• bugfix: playback plugin: infinite loop when switching from OSS to ALSA
• bugfix: forcing clipboard and drag&drop data to uncompressed mode
• bugfix: deadlock in progress bar handling
• bugfix: crash when unloading plugins with queued events
• help/about dialog: hide "translators" tab if no translator available
• help/about dialog: hack to allow web addresses of translators
• bugfix: selection was not set after "paste" and undo of other operations
• bugfix: label handling in context of "delete" and "undo" was broken
• bugfix: invalidation of overview cache after delete was not correct
• bugfix: artefacts in track display in min/max overview mode
• bugfix: add/delete/modify of labels did not set the state of the
  current file to "modified"
• bugfix: record dialog caused shutdown to hang when closed while recording
• bugfix: decoding 32bit/sample was broken
• bugfix: recording level meter consumed 100% cpu
• new make target: "make apidoc" for internal doxygen documentation
• bugfix: some images and icons in non-english documentation were missing
• volume plugin: preview was not updated on first use of plugin

0.8.3-2 [2009-07-04]

• bugfix: re-enabled detection of optimized memcpy function
• bugfix: deadlock in recording plugin and plugin management
• bugfix: ID3 tag import did not work
• taking ID3 tag for "album" as "product" in wav meta data
• taking ID3 tag for "track" as "subject" in wav meta data

0.8.3 [2009-06-28]

• integrated 05-do-not-install-so-symlinks.diff from Debian
  (thanks to Aurelien)
• cs i18n update from Pavel Fric
• new plugin: normalize
• progress bar in volume plugin did not work
• flattened "Fx" menu, no submenus for amplify and filter
• bugfix: workaround for libaudiofile bug produced wrong header
  in 24bit/sample mode
• bugfix: "fade outro" was broken
• bugfix: the dialog when playing the test sound in the playback
  setup dialog did not appear
• replaced qreal with double (fixes build problems on arm)
• show hourglass / progress bar when undo/redo is running
• flattened "Calculate" menu, no submenus for "Frequencies"
• wav encoder: auto-switch to unsigned format for <= 8bit and
  signed format for > 8 bit per sample
• volume plugin: show a little "preview" for guessing the level
• bugfix: after deleting a track, file info was not updated
• about plugin: separate tab for translators
• made plugin API version configurable per plugin
• recognize mime type "audio/x-vorbis+ogg" (found in KDE-4)
• updated czech gui translation and user manual from Pavel Fric
• bugfix: crashes when deleting objects that still have event queued
  with Qt::QueuedConnection -> now using Qt::BlockingQueuedConnection
• new plugin: reverse
• speedup: limiting the number of progress bar updates per second
• memory manager: fixed multithreading issues, improved OOM behaviour
• bugfix: received SIGBUS in SwapFile when disk was full
• improved performance of memory management
• require Qt4 v4.5.0 or newer

0.8.2 [2009-04-25]

• bugfix: minor off-by-one bug in buffer handling
• wav/RIFF parser: be more robust if the file has not been correctly padded
• bugfix in wav encoder: padding for info and label chunk was missing
• bugfix: if two markers were too close and displayed at the same
  pixel position they eliminated each other through XOR mode
• bugfix: numeric overflow when trying to select labels in high zoom factors
• bugfix: not all positions were selectable due to internal rounding errors
• silence plugin now supports all modes
• use "unsigned" sample format per default when creating new files
  with <= 8 bits/sample
• bugfix: playback position was shown on startup
• bugfix: show correct file size in progress dialog
• bugfix: crash when deleting label from end of signal
• bugfix: overview was wrong when deleted space after signal was visible
• bugfix: overview was not always synchronized after delete/insert
• bugfix: "modified" state got lost during undo
• use ALSA per default for playback/record if nothing has been selected yet
• fixed calculation of undo/redo sizes
• undo/redo handling for sample range and track selection
• processing updates of overview widget in a background thread
• memory management: no longer evaluate RLIMIT_RSS, gives more
  available physical memory
• portability fix: swapfile creation/destruction went wrong
• feature: memory for undo/redo can now be configured
• bugfix: handling of "continue without undo" produced wrong undo/redo states
  and asked several times
• bugfix: file progress did not do GUI updates, cancel button did not work
• bugfix: assert in record plugin if no valid sample rate available
• speedup for generation of signal overviews in min/max mode
• bugfix: MultiTrackWriter produced one extra sample (off by one error)
• workaround for bug in libaudiofile: sometimes libaudiofile produces
  broken files as it uses 'float' for internal calculations (wrong size
  of 'data' and 'RIFF' chunk) => see ubuntu bug #327018
• implemented "debug" plugin, with internal functions for test and
  verification (quality improvement)
• added czech gui translation from Pavel Fric <pavelfric@seznam.cz>
• bugfix: after creating a new empty file, "revert" was possible
• speed optimizations in buffer handling
• speedup: limiting the rate of progress updates when loading and saving files
• fixed displayed names of actions based on the "amplifyfree" plugin
• bugfix: menu entry translation did not work correctly
• bugfix: deleteLater on menu nodes did not work,
  implemented own garbage collector
• speedup: use different block sizes for interactive and non-interactive mode

0.8.1 [2008-12-23]

• replaced application icon, now using a scalable svg image
• replaced GSL with FFTW3, which is license compatible with Kwave
• use implicit sharing for Label class
• new clipboard implementation, using the clipboard of KDE (X11)
• fixed enable/disable of copy/paste functions depending on clipboard state
• re-enabled function "flush clipboard"
• re-enabled function "invert track selection"
• re-enabled function "select all tracks"
• implemented plugin for "go to position..."
• added status bar item for current cursor position
• show current playback position in status bar
• show selection in overview widget
• bugfix: mode switch in time selection widget did not work properly
• bugfix: handle situation when adding or moving a label to a
  location that is already occupied by another label
• show labels in overview widget
• show current playback position in overview widget
• overview widget: dimming parts that are out of view
• no longer needing builtin copy of libaudiofile, removed

0.8.0 [2008-09-27]

• ported to KDE4 / Qt4
• dropped support for FLAC API v1.1.1 and older
• support for ALSA lib API v1.0.16
• made MP3 decoder disabled per default due to legal issues
• fixed bug in cue list parsing of .wav files
• fixed bugs in recording plugin, recorded too much if recording time
  limit was activated or in prerecording mode
• a much nicer splash screen
• bugfix in label handling: support labels with zero-length names
• re-arranged source files for cleaner library interfaces
• re-enabled accelerator keys for 0..9
• using horizontal scrollbar instead of overview widget
• implemented vertical zoom (Ctrl + MouseWheelUp/Down)
• using more standard KDE keyboard shortcuts
• nicer icons for the menus
• using more icons from the crystal icon collection (to clearify
  the license situation)
• removed aRts support
• now also available through the openSUSE build service for
  various platforms
• respect the LINGUAS environment variable to build only needed
  languages (defaulting to all)
• removed changelog from online manual to simplify the work of
  translators
• no longer dependent from "recode"
• recording plugin: show current recording time in status bar
• fixed infinite loop on undo/redo of channel selection
• usage of GSL can be disabled through cmake parameter -DWITH_GSL=OFF
• support for OSS v4 (integrated sf feature request #1870434)

0.7.11 [2007-12-09]

• new internal streaming architecture, based on Qt instead of aRts
• aRts support is now disabled per default
• some minor bugfixes for x86_64 support
• band pass plugin

0.7.10 [2007-08-08]

• build system: using 'METASOURCES=AUTO' (which simplifies a lot)
• ported the build system to cmake
• support for newer APIs of FLAC v1.1.3 and v1.1.4
  (closes SF bugs #1713655 and #1757716 + debian bugs #427747, #426668
  and #431199)
• replaced problematic code in libaudiofile with new code under the
  LGPL, contributed by Bertrand Songis (partially fixes debian bug #419124)
• update of the online documentation to reflect the change of the make system

0.7.9 [2007-05-01]

• playback via ALSA: offer the "default" device, if no devices found
  offer the "null" device
• implemented import and export of labels, currently only for uncompressed
  wav files
• new plugin for saving blocks between labels as separate files
• new function: expand selection to labels
• new function: select next/previous range between labels
• bugfix: don't change the file name when saving only the selection
• new configure option: --enable-doc=yes/no to enable/disable the
  generation of the online documentation (default=yes)

0.7.8 [2006-12-31]

• bugfix: workaround for bug in ALSA, crashed when initializing
  the dsnoop plugin
• bugfix: error in swap file handling, one sample was destroyed
  when resizing. Affects cut, delete, crop and many other functions.
• fixed the incorrect usage of the word "loose" (thanks to J.T. Hundley)
• bugfix: went back to old implementation of ThreadsafeX11Guard class
  in order to fix a deadlock (closes sourceforge bug #1623357)
• documentation update: mention Subversion instead of CVS
• zero plugin: new mode, support for inserting a range filled with silence
• fixed the macro functions "Fade Leadin" and "Fade Leadout", using the
  new mode of the 'zero' plugin

0.7.7 [2006-09-17]
* new feature: implemented a small widget that shows the current
selection position and the selection borders
* new feature: context menu for the signal widget (right mouse button)
* improved file open dialog: show "All Files" and "All Supported Files"
* bugfix: error in handling of mouse selection
* bugfix: recording only used the first channel
(closes sourceforge bug #1551050)
* install plugins kde_moduledir/plugins/kwave instead of
kde_datadir/kwave/plugins

0.7.6 [2006-06-05]

• bugfix: recording setup crashed when called for the first time
• bugfix: do no longer crash when recording device is not
  present or opening failed
• bugfix: fixed generation of rpm dependency for libmad
• bugfix: update the size of the level meter if the dialog size has changed
• record plugin: added a fancy status bar
• record plugin: added autodetect/scanning for OSS devices
• record plugin: added dsnoop plugin as ALSA source
• record plugin: fewer annoying message boxes, instead show
  a short notice in the status bar for some seconds
• record plugin: add logarithmic scale to the level meter and use 3 colors
• playback plugin: added autodetect/scanning for OSS devices
• playback plugin / ALSA: support for 18 and 20 bits/sample
• playback plugin / ALSA: support for big endian