14-11-2009 Darkice 0.20.1 released
    o added rc.darkice init script
	  thanks to Niels Dettenbach <nd@syndicat.com>
    o bugfix: fix for gcc 4.4
	
05-11-2009 Darkice 0.20 released

    o new maintainer: Rafael Diniz <rafael@riseup.net>	
    o added AAC HEv2 encoding support (branch darkice-aacp merged) through 
	  libaacplus, http://tipok.org.ua/ru/node/17
	  thanks to tipok <piratfm@gmail.com> and others for the contribution.
    o bugfix: the configure script recognizes Ogg Vorbis shared objects
	  now, not just static libraries. Thanks to omroepvenray.
    o bugfix: enabling jack source compilation on Debian Lenny,
	  thanks to Alessandro Beretta <alessandro.baretta@radiomaria.org>

07-07-2008 Darkice 0.19 released

    o added mount point option for Darwin Streaming Server
      thanks to Pierre Souchay <pierre@souchay.net>
    o fix for some reliablity issues when using a Jack source
      thanks to Pierre Souchay <pierre@souchay.net>
    o enable easier finding of jack libraries on MacOS X,
      thanks to Daniel Hazelbaker <daniel@highdesertchurch.com>
    o added ability to specify name of jack device created by darkice,
      thanks to Alessandro Beretta <alessandro.baretta@radiomaria.org>

26-04-2007 DarkIce 0.18.1 released

    o enable real-time scheduling for non-super-users, if they have
      the proper operating system permissions,
      thanks to Jens Maurer <Jens.Maurer@gmx.net>
    o fix to enable compliation of the Serial ULAW code on MacOS X,
      thanks to Elod Horvath <elod@itfais.com>
    o fix to solve Shoutcast login failures, introduced in 0.18

05-03-2007 DarkIce 0.18 released

    o added serial ulaw input device support, thanks to
      Clyde Stubbs <clyde@htsoft.com>
    o improvements on reconnecting:
      added TCP connection keep-alive to TCP sockets
      added graceful sleep when trying to reconnect
    o added user-defined date formatting for the fileAddDate options,
      thanks to dsk <derrick@csociety.org>
    o added logging facility - [file-X] targets will cut the saved file
      and rename it as needed when darkice recieves the SIGUSR1 signal
    o added default configuration file handling - if no configuration file
      is specified, /etc/darkice.cfg is used
    o fix to enable compiling on 64 bit platforms
      thanks to Alexander Vlasov <zulu@galaradio.com> and
      Mariusz Mazur <mmazur@kernel.pl>
    o fix to enable file dump feature using ogg vorbis.
      thanks to dsk <derrick@csociety.org>
    o fix to enable compiling with jack installed at arbitrary locations

19-05-2006 DarkIce 0.17.1 released

    o bugfix: automatic reconnect works more reliably

26-01-2006 DarkIce 0.17 released

    o added check for bufferSecs set to 0
      thanks to Toph <fangiotophia@gmail.com>
    o added realtime parameter to the general section
    o added MPEG2 support through the TwoLame library.
      thanks to Nicholas J Humfrey <njh@ecs.soton.ac.uk>

22-10-2005 DarkIce 0.16 released

    o added AAC support through the faac codec, http://www.audiocoding.com
    o bug fix: icecast2 sections didn't honor lowpass or highpass filters
      when using the mp3 format

14-04-2005 DarkIce 0.15 released

    o ported to OpenBSD and NetBSD, though real-time scheduling not supported,
      since it is not implemented in OpenBSD / NetBSD
    o added possibility to downsample from stereo to mono when encoding
      to Ogg Vorbis, thanks to Deti Fliegl, <deti@fliegl.de>
    o added support for Jack inputs, enabling a lot of interesting usage,
      including support for MacOS X.
      Thanks to Nicholas J. Humfrey <njh@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
    o various improvements by Joel Ebel <jbebel@ncsu.edu>
    o added option to turn off automatic reconnect feature
    o added IPv6 support, thanks to <jochen2@users.sourceforge.net>

15-02-2004: DarkIce 0.14 released

    o added ALSA support, thanks to Christian Forster
      <forster@like.e-technik.uni-erlangen.de>
    o added fix to enable downsampling from stereo to mono of mp3 streams
      when streaming to an icecast2 server. thanks to John Deeny
      <taqueso@dilapidated.org>
    o removed _X and _Y symbols from aflibConverter files, which caused
      a naming collision on Solaris. thanks to Robert Lunnon,
      <bobl@optushome.com.au>
    o bug fix: ogg vorbis recording to only a file caused a segfault.
      now fixed, thanks to Enrico Ardizzoni <craken@users.sourceforge.net>

07-01-2004: DarkIce 0.13.2 released

    o bug fix: two bugs fixed that caused core dump when encoding into
      mp3 of FreeBSD. thanks to John Hay <jhay@icomtek.csir.co.za>
    o added configure option --with-debug to enable compilation for debug mode

12-02-2003: Darkice 0.13.1 released

    o added cross-platform pthread detection, thanks to
      Steven G. Johnson <stevenj@alum.mit.edu> and
      Alejandro Forero Cuervo <bachue@bachue.com>
      see http://www.gnu.org/software/ac-archive/htmldoc/acx_pthread.html
    o added proper detection of netural endiannes for 16 bit recording
    o basically these changes allow compilation on FreeBSD

09-02-2003: DarkIce 0.13 released

    o added feature for setting the TITLE comment field for vorbis
      streams. thanks to Ricardo Galli <gallir@uib.es>
    o bugfix: fixed minor bug in IcecCast2.cpp, which could have lead to
      a buffer overflow. thanks to Atsuhiko Yamanaka <ymnk@jcraft.com>
    o bugfix: MultiThreadedConnector::sinkThread() was private, now public
    o added fileAddDate configuration option
      thanks to Nicu Pavel <npavel@ituner.com>
    o added support for big endian OSS devices (like Linux PowerPC)

20-10-2002: DarkIce 0.12 released

    o ported to FreeBSD (removed reference to MSG_NOSIGNAL in TcpSocket.cpp)
    o bug fix: maximum bitrate setting fixed for Ogg Vorbis streams
    o changed internals so that now each encoding/server connection is
      a separate thread
    o when a connection is dropped, DarkIce tries to reconnect, indefinitely

20-08-2002: DarkIce 0.11 released

    o added possibility to specify maximum bitrate for Ogg Vorbis streams
    o added HTTP Basic authentication for icecast2 logins
    o added mp3 streaming for icecast2
    o added possibility to stream in mono even when recording in stereo,
      thus enabling mono and stereo streams with the same darkice instance.
      only for mp3 streams at the moment
      thanks to Kai Krakow <kai@kaishome.de>
    o bug fix: resampling audio for vorbis streams bugs fixed

02-08-2002: DarkIce 0.10.1 released

    o bug fix: when the last server dropped connection, darkice crashed
      thanks to Nicu Pavel <npavel@ituner.com>
    o bug fix for LameLibEncoder: the mp3 encoding buffer was deleted too
      early, resulting in mp3 data corruption.
      thanks to Nicu Pavel <npavel@ituner.com>

20-07-2002: DarkIce 0.10 released

    o added possibility to select constant, average and variable bit rate
      encoding modes with specifying encoding quality as well.
      thanks to Nicu Pavel <npavel@ituner.com>
    o added support for Ogg Vorbis 1.0 final, removed support for rc2
    o added fault tolerance: if one of several server connection drops,
      DarkIce carries on with the rest of the servers still connected

09-04-2002: DarkIce 0.9.1 released

    o bugfix: a memory leak was introduced in 0.9, which is fixed thanks to
      Kristjan G. Bjarnason <kgb@gangverk.is> and Nicu Pavel <npavel@ituner.com>
    o minor documentation fix

28-03-2002: DarkIce 0.9 released

    o added possibility to simply read from the soundcard, encode, and
      save the encoded data into a local file (no streaming server needed)
    o added variable bitrate support for vorbis streams
    o support for both rc2 and rc3 versions of vorbis libraries
    o added support for resampling when encoding to vorbis
      thanks to the OSALP project for the resampling class,
      http://osalp.sourceforge.net/ and
      Julius O. Smith, <jos@ccrma.stanford.edu> for the original code

20-02-2002: DarkIce 0.8 released

    o added possibility to disable lowpass and highpass filtering for lame
    o fixed incorrect vorbis bitrate setting
    o fix: DarkIce now reports public streams correctly
      thanks to Tom Gray, <tomg@future-i.com>
    o made up-to-date with Ogg Vorbis rc3 libs
      thanks to Michael Smith, <msmith@labyrinth.net.au>
    o made up-to-date with current IceCast2 cvs version
    o added local stream dump possibility

19-10-2001: DarkIce 0.7 released

    o added support for FreeBSD
      thanks to Robin P. Blanchard, <Robin_Blanchard@gactr.uga.edu>
    o added support for resampling mp3 streams
    o DarkIce config file now may contain spaces and tabs as white space
    o configure script enables build with or without lame / Ogg Vorbis
      also possibility to specify alternate locations for these

18-09-2001: DarkIce 0.6 released

    o added support for IceCast2 server with Ogg Vorbis streaming
      Ogg Vorbis support thanks to aNa|0Gue <analogue@glop.org>
    o added support for SUN Solaris
    o removed long command line options (as these are extensions to UNIX)
    o removed configure option to specify location of lame library
    o removed configure option to compile static executable

09-09-2001: DarkIce 0.5 released

    o added support for ShoutCast servers
    o removed local copy of SGI STL, uses STL of the C++ compiler
    o compiles with gcc3-c++
    o added man page darkice.cfg.5
    o bugfix: config files can have comments before the first section

02-09-2001: DarkIce 0.4 released

    o support for external command line encoder removed, replaced
      with using lame as a shared object or statically linked library
    o added darkice man page
    o created RPM packages
    o DarkIce no longer reports an error if the sound card recording
      sample rate could not be set to the exact specified amount
      (e.g. the sound card reports 44101 Hz instead of 44100 Hz)


26-08-2001: DarkIce 0.3.1 released

    o support for unlimited time encoding
      thanks to Jim Crilly, <JCrilly@MSA.com>


20-12-2000: DarkIce 0.3 released

    o added POSIX real-time scheduling


18-11-2000: DarkIce 0.2 released

    o code cleanup
    o first real tests made
    o added verbosity command line option


13-11-2000: DarkIce 0.1 released

