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0.8.1

This release is a small brown bag release. It features:

- Improved debugging verbosity
- Non-broken (less-broken?) daemon config file handling
- More sub-commands to supercede old-style --options

0.8.0

This is a fairly important release.  It brings:

- Support for multiple rendering backends: old frame-buffer, X11, and drm
- Multihead support when using drm renderer
- More robust and seemless hand off between plymouth and X
- Various script language enhancements
- Improved image scaling and rotating routines
- A man page
- A daemon configuration file
- Dropping libpng dependency on minimal installs; split libplybootsplash up into multiple libraries
- Improved VT handling; support running plymouth on VT7 instead of VT1
- Improved plymouth-set-default-theme interface
- Better support for plymouthd getting accessed by multiple asynchronous clients
- More robust terminal handling
- various bug fixes
- various api additions and improvements
- more debugging messages

Contributors to this release were:
Ray Strode, Charles Brej, Scott James Remnant, Adrian Glaubitz, Frederic Crozat, and Richard Maw

0.7.2

This is a minor bug fix release.  It brings:

- A host of fixes to the script plugin (Charlie Brej)
- A change to make the script plugin object based (Charlie Brej)
- make system release file a configure option (Fredric)
- A bunch of leak fixes (Fredric)
- Fix detection of s, S, -s, single on kernel command line (Fredric)
- populate-initrd fixes (Ray Strode)
- debug fixes (Ray)
- compiler warnings (Ray)
- fix max bullet calculation in entry control (Ray)
- Drop "text-pulser" plugin (Ray)
- Makefile clean ups (Ray)

0.7.1

This is a minor bug fix release.  It brings:

- Image scaling fixes
- Support for messages in script themes
- Password handling fixes in script plugin
- Coping better with tty settings getting changed during boot up.
- Better animation error handling when animation has 0 frames.
- Fixes when debug mode is enabled.
- Fix crash when label control plugin is unloaded and reloaded
  repeatedly.
- Refined bullet and entry graphics in glow theme

0.7.0

This release fixes numerous bugs since 0.6.0. In addition,
it brings:

- "shutdown mode" for splash screens (so system shutdown can
  be splashed.
- Separation of splash themes from splash plugins.  This way
  more than one theme can use the same plugin, but with different
  images and other content.
- A new splash plugin called "two-step" which shows two animations,
  one synchronized to boot time, and one displayed very quickly
  at the end of boot.
- A new splash plugin called "script" which makes it possible to
  write themes without build goo and without knowing C.
- pkgconfig fix ups to facilitate out-of-tree plugins
- More debuggability
- Better performance when a lot of small things change all over the
  screen.