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+This is a summary of the changes in VDR 1.6.0 since the last stable
+version 1.4.7. It only contains things that are of actual importance
+to the user and doesn't mention the many fixes and improvements that
+have been made "behind the scenes".
+
+See the file HISTORY for a detailed list of all changes.
+
+Subtitles:
+
+- Implemented handling DVB subtitles.
+- The new setup option "DVB/Subtitle languages" can be used to define the
+  preferred languages for subtitles.
+- The new setup option "DVB/Subtitle offset" can be used to shift the location
+  of the subtitles in the vertical direction.
+- The new setup options "DVB/Subtitle foreground/background transparency"
+  define an additional level of transparency for the foreground and background
+  color of subtitles.
+
+UTF-8 support:
+
+- VDR now fully supports UTF-8.
+- The actual character encoding on a given system will be determined from the
+  environment. On a system that uses, for instance, ISO8859-1, VDR will encode
+  everything in that code (as far as possible).
+
+Plugins:
+
+- The new remote control key "Subtitles" can be used to bring up the list
+  of available subtitles.
+- Plugins can now implement the new function WakeupTime() to request VDR to wake
+  up at a particular time.
+
+Remote control:
+
+- The "Play" key now starts replay of the selected recording in the Recordings
+  menu
+- The kInfo key is now propagated to any open menu, so that it can react to it
+  in a context sensitive manner. If there is no menu open it will show the info
+  of the current broadcast or replay.
+
+OSD:
+
+- The OSD now uses Freetype fonts.
+- If the OSD device in use has at least 8bpp bitmap depth and this is also
+  used by the current skin, Freetype fonts are displayed "anti-aliased".
+  The new setup parameter "OSD/Anti-alias" can be used to turn this off.
+- Changed the parameter "OSD font" to "Default font" in "Setup/OSD".
+- There can now be more than one OSD at the same time. At any given time,
+  however, only one of them can be active (and thus visible). This is to
+  allow displaying things like subtitles in an easy way. A cOsd therefore
+  now has a "Level", and only the OSD with the smallest level will be
+  displayed. The level 0 OSD is special, and there can only be one with
+  this level. If there is more than one OSD with a particular level, only
+  the one that was created first will be displayed.
+  Plugins that provide an OSD need to adjust their cOsdProvider::CreateOsd()
+  function to hand through the Level.
+
+Channels:
+
+- The new Setup parameter "Channel entry timeout" can be used to customize the time
+  since the last keypress until a numerically entered channel number is considered
+  complete, and the channel is switched (suggested by Helmut Auer). Setting this
+  parameter to 0 turns off the automatic channel switching, and the user will
+  have to confirm the entry by pressing the "Ok" key.
+
+Recording:
+
+- The info.vdr file now also stores the name of the channel.
+
+SVDRP:
+
+- The new SVDRP command REMO can be used to turn VDR's remote control off and
+  on in case other programs need to be controlled.
+- Improved performance of the SVDRP commands LSTC and CHAN when used with a
+  channel name.
+- The SVDRP command LSTC can now list the channels with group separators if the
+  option ':groups' is given.
+- Enhanced the SVDRP command CLRE to allow clearing the EPG data of a particular
+  channel.
+
+Conditional Access:
+
+- It is now automatically detected which CAM can actually decrypt a channel.
+- CAMs can now be dynamically assigned to the various devices, provided the
+  hardware in use implements such a possibility.
+- Improved handling of the CAM menu.
+- Several encrypted channels on the same transponder can now be decrypted
+  simultaneously with one CAM, if the CAM supports this.
+- Ca values in the range 0...F in channels.conf can still be used to assign a channel
+  to a particular device, but this will no longer work with encrypted channels because
+  without valid CA ids VDR can't decide which CAM slot to use. However, since VDR now
+  automatically determines which CAM can decrypt which channel, setting fixed
+  channel/device relations should no longer be necessary.
+  IF AN ENCRYPTED CHANNEL CAN'T BE DECRYPTED AND YOU HAVE A CA VALUE IN THE RANGE
+  0...F FOR THAT CHANNEL, SET IT TO 0 (FTA) AND TUNE TO THE CHANNEL AGAIN.
+- Removed switching to the next higher or lower channel if the current channel
+  is not available, in order to allow staying on an encrypted channel that takes
+  a while for the CAM to start decrypting.
+
+Internationalization:
+
+- Internationalization is now done with 'gettext'.
+  See README.i18n for information on how to create new or maintain existing
+  translations.
+- The parameter OSDLanguage in 'setup.conf' is now a string and holds the locale
+  code of the selected OSD language (e.g. en_US). If Setup.OSDLanguage is not
+  set to a particular locale that is found in VDR's locale directory, the
+  locale as defined in the system environment is used by default.
+- The new option --localedir can be used to set the locale directory at runtime.
+- Added Turkish language texts.
+- Added Ukrainian language texts.
+
+Misc:
+
+- Improved shutdown handling.
+- The HUP signal now forces a restart of VDR.
+- All logging now goes to LOG_ERR, because some systems split error, info and
+  debug messages into separate files, which repeatedly caused extra efforts to
+  find out when incomplete log excerpts were attached to problem reports in
+  the past.
+- The new setup option "Miscellaneous/Emergency exit" can be used to turn off
+  the automatic restart of VDR in case a recording fails for some reason.
+- The new plugin "pictures" implements a simple picture viewer.
+  See PLUGINS/src/pictures/README for details.
+- Added the new command line option --userdump to enable core dumps in case VDR
+  is run as root with option -u.
+- The free disk space is now also displayed in the title of the "Recordings"
+  menu.
+- Changed the message "Upcoming VPS recording!" to "Upcoming recording!" because
+  it applies to non-VPS recordings as well.