2023-09-09 the hydrogen team <hydrogen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
	* Release 1.2.2
	* Added
		- Hydrogen is now released as AppImage for Linux as well.
		- Playlist dialog can now be resized and remembers geometry,
		  position, as well as visibility.
		- Save and restore Director position, geometry, and visibility.
		- New and properly licensed AppStream metainfo files
		  `org.hydrogenmusic.Hydrogen.metainfo.xml` replace old
		  `org.hydrogenmusic.Hydrogen.appdata.xml`.
		- Hydrogen shows an error dialog and exits on the first invocation
		  with no hydrogen.conf file present on user and system level
		  (application was not properly installed).
		- A new `cmake` option `WANT_DYNAMIC_JACK_CHECK` was
		  introduced. When set Hydrogen does check on startup whether
		  `jackd`, `jackdbus`, or `pw-jack` is installed and disables JACK
		  support in case none of them was found. This is intended for
		  bundled builds, like AppImage and Flatpak, and can be overridden
		  by setting the audio driver manually to "Jack" in the
		  hydrogen.conf or by passing the "-d jack" CLI option.
	* Changed
		- Spanish translation updated.
		- Minor tweaks in French and German translation.
		- On Linux the order of audio drivers tried when selecting `Auto`
		  changed from "JACK > ALSA > OSS > PulseAudio" to
		  "JACK > PulseAudio > ALSA > OSS".
	* Fixed
		- Style combo box in Preferences > Appearance > Interface is
		  working again.
		- Fix segfault on hitting "Panic" button while transport was
		  rolling.
		- Instrument/strip-specific actions, like MIDI action
		  `STRIP_MUTE_TOGGLE`, did void the instrument selection of the
		  Instrument Editor if the specified instrument was not the
		  currently selected one.
		- Do not start playback at cursor when cursor in Song Editor is
		  beyond the current song length.
		- Fixed compatibility with PortMidi version 217 (Hydrogen v1.2.1
		  was incompatible) (#1795). All versions of Hydrogen >=1.3 will,
		  however, require on a more recent PortMidi version (at least
		  v2.0.1).
		- Fixed allowed range of MIDI output notes to be [0,127] again
		  (#1828) (introduced in v1.2.0).
		- Hydrogen does now successfully startup even if no data folder is
		  present on user and system level.
		- Allow an arbitrary number of notes in a pattern (#1827).
		- Fix playback track volume fader (#1449)

2023-06-08 the hydrogen team <hydrogen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
	* Release 1.2.1
	* Update French translation
	* Bugfixes
		- Fix reopening of last used Playlist. In addition, in case the
		  PlaylistDialog was opened at the end of the last session - when
		  "Reopen last used playlist" is checked in the Preferences - the
		  dialog will be reopened too at the same position.
		- Fix spurious marking of opened songs as modified.
		- Fix MIDI (output) feedback for metronome toggling and pan
		  setting.
		- Fix superfluous MIDI event - Action bindings. An incoming MIDI
		  event can be mapped to an Action only once.
		- Fix tool tips of MIDI-learnable widgets. All bounded MIDI events
		  will be shown.
		- Fix MIDI note output for channel 16 (previously only channel
		  1-15 were accessible in the InstrumentEditor).
		- Fix spurious tempo changes to 120bpm when switching songs or
		  between pattern and song mode (#1779 and #1785)
		- Support "START", "CONTINUE", and "STOP" type System Realtime
		  MIDI messages in PortMidi and CoreMidi.
		- Fix MIDI action binding to incoming MMC_DEFERRED_PLAY event.
		- Fix missing MIDI driver restart when adjusting corresponding
		  parameters in Preferences.
		- Fix MIDI Machine Control (MMC) event type handling on Windows
		  (#1773)
		- Fix loading of legacy drumkits. All layers but the first one
		  were dropped during drumkit upgrade (#1759)
		- Fix MIDI input handling with "Discard MIDI messages after action
		  has been triggered" checked. Incoming NOTEON message were
		  dropped without triggering a sound (#1751)
		- Fix beat and bar calculation in pattern mode (#1741)
		- Fix compilation in GCC with -Werror=format-security (#1739)
		- Explicit usage of Python3 in stats.py script
		- Fix build against Musl (nekopsykose)
		- Omit git commit hash in displayed version of release builds

2023-04-07 the hydrogen team <hydrogen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
	* Release 1.2
	* General behavior
		- Remembering paths in all export/import/save/open dialogs.
		- Introducing keyboard shortcut for the Open Pattern dialog.
		- Allow for opening more than one Pattern at once.
		- All available audio drivers can now be chosen via CLI.
		- Implement missing EFFECT_LEVEL_RELATIVE MIDI action
		- If the Timeline is activated, the tempo set using the BPM
		  widget, BeatCounter, Tap Tempo, or MIDI/OSC commands is used left
		  of the first tempo marker.
		- The tempo provided by an external JACK timebase master
		  overwrites all internal tempo settings.
		- The BPM widget switches to read-only mode and displays the
		  current playback speed when the Timeline is activated.
		- Activation of the Timeline is now stored in each individual
		  .h2song file.
		- Autosave files will be hidden. The interval they are stored with
		  as well whether there is an autosave at all can be set via the
		  Preferences. Hydrogen will inform the user whether there are
		  unsaved changes to recover taken from the autosave file.
		- Hydrogen is now able to recover changes applied to a new and
		  empty song in case they are discarded or the session end
		  untimely (using autosave files)
		- Multiple actions can be assigned to a single MIDI event.
		- The virtual keyboard is now decoupled from the "Hear New Notes"
		  button in the Pattern Editor and can be used to play back notes in
		  song mode with playback rolling too.
		- Mutable warning dialogs are shown when saving/exporting a
		  drumkit containing samples of mismatching license and when
		  saving/exporting a drumkit or song containing a copyleft license
		  or one requiring an attribution.
		- Drumkit properties dialog does now feature a table listing all
		  contained samples and associated licenses.
		- All actions accessible via right-clicking in the SoundLibrary do
		  affect the stack drumkits and not the instrument list of the
		  current song.
		- All actions accessible via the Drumkits tab of the main menu do
		  affect the loaded drumkit using the current song's custom
		  instrument and component list.
	* Interface
		- Improved scalability (most PNG images were replaced by SVGs,
		  hardcoded PNG labels are now directly drawn by Qt, and spin boxes,
		  buttons, and combo boxes are now based on native Qt widgets)
		- Improved internationalization (all labels are translatable now
		  and support UTF-8)
		- Improved accessibility (widgets were increased to fill available
		  space, preference option to (de- and) increase font size)
		- All colors can be altered via the preferences
		- Input widgets (rotary, fader, combo box, spin box, button) do
		  support both mouse and keyboard input (e.g. setting numerical values)
		- Input widgets are faintly highlighted when hovered and more
		  strongly highlighted when clicked (focuses). Only the focused
		  widget can receive keyboard input
		- MIDI-learnable widgets now show their corresponding MIDI action
		  and it's binding in the tooltip
		- It's now possible to jump to the beginning of the currently
		  playing pattern by clicking its position on the ruler in the
		  pattern editor.
		- The length of patterns can now be changed while transport is
		  rolling.
	* PreferencesDialog > Appearance tab overhaul
	  	- Drop previous font options in favor for three different
		  levels of font (without exposing their point sizes)
		- Ability to decrease or increase the overall font size
		- All settings in the Appearance tab - except the overall layout
		  and the scaling policy - take effect immediately (no restart
		  required anymore)
		- Drop the "fixed" coloring methods and rename "steps" to
		  "Custom".
		- Via a colored button the particular line color can now be
		  adjusted using a QColorDialog
		- Custom color tab to alter all colors in the GUI (big thanks to
		  the Muse4 team for the original code).
		- All options set in the Appearance tab can be imported and
		  exported into and shared via dedicated .h2theme files.
		- Overhauled MIDI Table
		  - Per effect or layer setting are now done in dedicated spin
		    boxes instead of providing individual actions for each.
		  - Only spin boxes for parameters required for a particular
		    action are shown.
		  - Rows can be removed by unsetting both the Event and Action
		    combo box.
		- Clicking the widget showing the status messages does now open a
		  dropdown menu displaying the last 100 messages.
	* Audio processing
		- Set CoreAudio (macOS) buffer size to control latency
		- New fast exponential ADSR envelope processing
	* InstrumentEditor UX improvements:
		- rework start/end/loop frame slider selection and motion.
		- rework velocity/pan envelope editing
	* SongEditor UX improvements:
		- Tags can now be inserted at all possible columns
		- Hovering a Tag displays its content
		- Changed behavior of the Tempo Marker dialog: When clicking an
		  existing Tempo Marker it can be moved, edited, or
		  deleted. Clicking a column with no Tempo Marker present allows
		  to create a new one at an arbitrary location.
		- Timeline is deactivated automatically when switching to Pattern
		  Mode or a JACK timebase master is present
		- The tempo used left of the first tempo marker is painted in a
		  darker color.
		- The currently used Tempo Marker gets highlighted.
		- Tags have been moved into Timeline (next to the Tempo Markers)
		  in order to make room to accommodate the cursor in the ruler to
		  highlight the current position
		- Tags can be inserted by left-clicking the bottom area of the
		  Timeline (above the ruler).
		- Clicking the ruler is now always enabled and automatically
		  switches transport into Song Mode.
		- Full-size playhead
		- The icons in the pattern list indicating whether a pattern is
		  playing in stacked pattern mode are now colored and can have four
		  different states: on, off, off next (pattern is played till the
		  end and then turned off), and on next (pattern is played as soon
		  as transport is looped again)
		- In song mode the pattern editor can be locked meaning that
		  always the bottom-most pattern of the current column the
		  playhead resides in as well as all other playing notes are
		  shown. Pattern selection is done automatically when moving into
		  a different column.
	* PatternEditor UX tweaks:
		- Relocating transport by clicking the ruler is now supported
		  (like in the SongEditor) and automatically switches transport
		  into Pattern Mode.
		- Full-size playhead
		- The ruler was decoupled from the currently selected pattern. It
		  always has the size of the largest playing pattern and always
		  shows the transport position using a playhead. Whether or not the
		  current pattern is played back is indicated by a full-height
		  cursor.
		- All note properties except of the note key can now be altered in
		  both the drum pattern editor and the piano roll editor by
		  right-clicking and dragging a note.
		- All notes of the currently playing patterns will be hinted in
		  stacked pattern mode, when selecting a virtual pattern, or in
		  case the pattern editor is locked in song mode. Even those notes
		  exceeding the length of the current pattern are shown.
	* OSC API
		- Add command /Hydrogen/LOAD_DRUMKIT
		- Add command /Hydrogen/UPGRADE_DRUMKIT
		- Add command /Hydrogen/VALIDATE_DRUMKIT
		- Add command /Hydrogen/EXTRACT_DRUMKIT
		- Add command /Hydrogen/BPM
		- /Hydrogen/STRIP_SOLO_TOGGLE/X and /Hydrogen/STRIP_MUTE_TOGGLE/X
		  can now be called without any argument too
	* H2CLI
		- Add `--upgrade` option to upgrade a drumkit
		- Add `--check` option to validate a drumkit
		- Add `--extract` option to extract the content of a drumkit
		- Drumkit supplied using `-k` option can now be either the name of
		  an install kit or an absolute path to a kit (does not have to be
		  located in the Hydrogen's drumkit folder).
	* Bugfixes
		- fix dithering of SongEditor when viewing the playback track
		  and resizing the application or for very small size (#1379).
		- fix rewinding to beginning of pattern in pattern mode with no
		  pattern inserted in SongEditor (#932)
		- fix display of tags and tempo marker while loading a song
		  (introduced in 1.1.0) (#1393)
		- default MIDI driver is now picked with the system's capabilities
		  in mind
		- remove unwanted samples at the end of the exported song (to
		  .wav) (#946)
		- fix undefined tempo before first tempo marker (#416)
		- fix Song export to keep writing till all notes and FX have faded
		  out
		- notes at first ticks in pattern were missed when relocation
		  transport using the position ruler
		- fix playhead glitches when adding toggling patterns at the end
		  of the song after transport was loop at least once
		- deactivating loop mode result stopping transport at the end of
		  the song even if transport was already looped at least once
		- relocation of the playhead use JACK is now also support in case
		  transport is not rolling
		- Hydrogen is now able to handle multiple drumkits featuring the
		  same name in the SoundLibrary. The drumkit's absolute path will be
		  used as unique handler from now on.
		- Mixing instruments from different drumkit in one Song works
		  again
		- Hydrogen shows a now a warning dialog when exporting/saving date
		  to read-only folders
		- fix text overflow in Director
	* Crash reporting
		- Fatal errors will now show a GUI report including details to report
		  and potential hints about the cause

2021-12-05 the hydrogen team <hydrogen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
	* Release 1.1.1
	* Bugfixes
		- fix preferences dialog "OK" button behaviour (#1375)
		- fix rewinding to beginning of pattern in pattern mode with no
		  pattern inserted in SongEditor (#932)
		- fix display of tempo marker while loading a song
		  (introduced in 1.1.0) (#1393)
		- fix LADSPA issues, most audible on PulseAudio (#1403)
		- fix window placement when screen sizes change (#1369)
	* Explicitly set latency target for PortAudio (Windows) audio
	  driver, enabling much lower audio latency on Windows

2021-09-04 the hydrogen team <hydrogen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
	* Release 1.1
	* Keyboard cursor-driven pattern, song and note properties editing
	* Note selection and movement in pattern editors
	* New OSC commands (new song, open song, save song (as), quit,
		toggle looped playback, toggle timeline, toggle Jack transport,
		toggle Jack timebase master, add/delete timeline marker,
		toggle song/pattern playback mode)
	* NSM support reworked
	* Deprecating JACK-session
	* Instrument main pitch shift offset
	* Custom pattern size support with representation in note values
	* Custom pan law support in mixer
	* Allow audio device selection for CoreAudio and PortAudio
	* Attempt to find fallback Audio drivers if user preferred
	  driver fails, as if the "Auto" driver option were selected
	* Many bug fixes including application crashes and audio glitches

2021-04-11 the hydrogen team <hydrogen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
	* Release 1.0.2
	* User-selectable translation language
	* Bug fixes including critical startup bug on macOS Big Sur

2020-08-29 the hydrogen team <hydrogen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
	* Release 1.0.1
	* Fixed compilation with libtar
	* Fixed jack transport tempo drift when using non-integer bpm values
	* Disabled "development mode" warning
	* Fix crash on saving ladspa settings

2020-08-03 the hydrogen team <hydrogen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
	* Release 1.0
	* QT 5 support
	* New default drumkit: GMRockKit
	* Probability note property
	* Velocity automation
	* OSC support
	* Midi feedback
	* Menu redesign
	* Fullscreen mode

2016-11-01 the hydrogen team <hydrogen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
	* Release 0.9.7
	* The color of the SongEditors squares is now configurable
	* Added support for midi cymbal choking
	* Added support for midi hihat pressure control
	* Added hihat pressure groups
	* Added basic non session manager support
	* Added instrument components
	* Basic lilypond export
	* New windows cross compilation script
	* Support for soundlibrary images
	* Configurable sample selection algorithm
	* Support for soundlibraries with images
	* Donation dialog
*	 New midi action:
		* SELECT_PREV_PATTERN_RELATIVE

2014-08-03 the hydrogen team <hydrogen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
	* Release 0.9.6
	* new build system (cmake)
	* add undo for song/pattern editor
	* jack-session support
	* jack-midi support
	* several bug fixes
	* tabbed interface
	* several small changes to the GUI
	* improve ExportSong add use of TimeLineBPM,
	RubberbandBatch processor and different types of resample interpolation

2011-03-15 the hydrogen team <hydrogen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>

	* Release 0.9.5
	* load playlists at startup
	* midi-learn works now with shift-click on some gui elements
	* multi-track export
	* LADI support
	* maximum number of bars is now configurable
	* added czech translation
	* fixed several export song failures
	* added ogg, flac, aiff export support
	* added some new commandline parameter for no_gui version
	* added rubberband-cli support
	* several improvements on sample editor
	* added NO_GUI_SUPPORT to build a version of hydrogen without a gui
	* added support for app bundles on OSX
	* non destructive sample editor
	* piano roll editor
	* instrument midi out
	* destructive midi recording
	* support for midi "note off" messages
	* virtual patterns
	* time line to change song tempo and add tags
	* director
	* and at least several small changes
	* Xml handling is now done by QtXml instead of TinyXML
	* improved support for non-ascii filenames / strings
	* remove direct dependencies to libflac

2009-09-12 the hydrogen team <hydrogen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>

	* Release 0.9.4
	* QT4 port
	* Autosave
	* Jack port follows instrument names
	* Mute groups for instruments
	* New drumkit manager (with downloadable drumkits)
	* Save and load patterns
	* Jack transport master
	* Beatcounter
	* Playlist editor
	* MMC
	* Lead / lag (pattern editor)
	* Audiofilebrowser
	* midiAutosense
	* change post masterfader fx_return to pre masterfader fx_return
	* several new translations
	* new manual
	* switched buildsystem from autotools to scons
	* tons of bugfixes
	* soundlibrary browser

2008-02-05 Alessandro Cominu <comix@users.sourceforge.net>
	* Release 0.9.3.1
	* Patch from Lubomir Kundrak - Compilation with gcc-4.3
	* Compilation fix for new libFLAC++
	* Added LASH support (Jaakko Sipari)

2005-07-23 Alessandro Cominu <comix@users.sourceforge.net>
	* Release 0.9.2
	* New graphics
	* Bug fix in export song (using JACK driver)
	* Bug fix in export song (wrong samplerate)
	* Follow playhead in song editor
	* Automatic audio driver selection
	* New PortAudio and PortMidi drivers
	* Mac Os X port
	* Pattern size increased up to 4 bars
	* Random pitch variations
	* New instrument editor
	* Low pass filter
	* Insert/delete a range of patterns in song editor

2004-11-28 Alessandro Cominu  <comix@users.sourceforge.net>
	* Release 0.9.1
	* New ALSA driver
	* New french tutorial and manual page (thanks to Pierre 'AlSim'	Chapuis)
	* Various bug fixes

2004-09-08 Alessandro Cominu  <comix@users.sourceforge.net>

	* Release 0.9.0
	* Multi layer support for instruments (up to 16 samples).
	* Multiple patterns playing at once.
	* Added FLAC files support for songs and drumkits.
	* Added pitch and gain properties per instrument.
	* Improved song and pattern editor (selections, copy/move, etc..).
	* Added a new selectable user interface (single panel).
	* Better jack-transport support.
	* Ability to set the note length in pattern editor
	* Export song to standard midi file

2004-03-15 Alessandro Cominu  <comix@users.sourceforge.net>

	* Release 0.8.2
	* Audio file preview in load instrument dialog
	* Jack transport improvements
	* 4 Ladspa FX send per instrument
	* Show recent used songs
	* QT Style selection option in Preferences Dialog
	* New keybindings
	* Bug fix in load/save song
	* LRDF support (optional)
	* Several GUI improvements
	* Better Midi-in support
	* virtual keyboard (using qwertyuiop...)
	* Ability to record midi-in or virtual keyboard notes in a pattern

2003-12-18  Alessandro Cominu  <comix@users.sourceforge.net>

	* Release 0.8.1
	* Midi and CPU activity widgets
	* Jack transport slave mode
	* Multiple jack outputs
	* Resizable song editor
	* Seek in song clicking in the song editor
	* New mixer
	* 32 instruments
	* Custom pattern size
	* Per instrument output (jack driver)
	* MMC/MTC support (experimental)
	* i18n support

2003-05-25  Alessandro Cominu  <comix@users.sourceforge.net>

	* Release 0.8.0
	* Delay FX
	* Bug fix in Alsa Midi Driver
	* Assignable Jack ports in preferences file
	* Assignable midi-in channel (1..16, ALL)
	* Drumkit support (load, save, import, export)
	* Acoustic drumkit included
	* various GUI improvements

2003-03-24  Alessandro Cominu  <comix@users.sourceforge.net>

	* Release 0.7.6
	* Bug fix in note velocity editor
	* Improved pattern editor
	* Humanize function
	* Swing function
	* New child frame interface
	* Stereo peak visualization in mixer
	* New song editor

2003-02-23  Alessandro Cominu  <comix@users.sourceforge.net>

	* Release 0.7.5
	* thread safe audio engine
	* Song loop button
	* Velocity bar in pattern editor
	* Instrument pan in mixer
	* Better graphical user interface
	* Demo songs


