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 ===============================================================================
-WELCOME TO BANSHEE 1.7.6 - Released September 15, 2010
+WELCOME TO BANSHEE 1.8.0 - Released September 29, 2010
 ===============================================================================
 
   * Banshee is a multimedia management and playback application for GNOME.
 
-    "Import, organize, and discover new music with Banshee through its simple
-    and powerful interface and wide array of innovative features. Create
-    your own radio stations or listen to a friends' through Last.fm integration;
-    experience automatic cover art fetching as you listen; and easily browse,
-    search, and control your media collection."
+    "Play your music and videos. Stay entertained and up to date with podcasts
+    and video podcasts.  Sync your Android, iPod, and other devices. We think
+    you'll love the new Banshee!"
 
-  * Learn More: http://banshee.fm/download/archives/1.7.6
+  * Learn More: http://banshee.fm/download/archives/1.8.0
 
 
 ===============================================================================
 NEW AWESOME FEATURES AND ENHANCEMENTS
 ===============================================================================
 
-    Banshee 1.7.6 is part of the 1.7 active development series, leading up to a
-    stable 1.8 release in the fall.
+    Banshee 1.8 is a stable release, the culmination of six month's work by 67
+    programmers, artists, documentation writers, and translators.  These
+    notes aggregate the highlights from the 1.7 development releases.
+
+    New Features Since 1.6:
+
+      * Integrated AmazonMP3 Store
+
+            Browse, search, preview, buy, and download music straight into
+            your Banshee library from the US, UK, FR, DE, and JP AmazonMP3
+            stores.  See http://abock.org/2010/07/13/amazon-mp3-store-in-banshee
+
+      * Miro Guide Podcast Directory
+
+            Browse and subscribe to thousands of audio and video podcasts
+            listed on the non-profit run MiroGuide.com.
+
+      * Improved Apple Device Support
+
+            iPhone, iTouch, iPad, and iPod devices are now supported via the
+            awesome libgpod library.
+
+      * Revamped Hardware Backend
+
+            Uses the latest Linux hardware stack, a combination of GIO, udev, and
+            media-player-info files, to provide support for CDs and
+            digital audio players.
+
+      * Keybinding for Switching Sources
+
+          Typing 'g' activates the source switcher, where you can type the name
+          of a source to switch to it.  You can type its acronym or a substring
+          as well. As soon as only one source matches, it will be activated.
+          For example, you can type 'g' and then 'np' to switch to Now Playing.
+
+      * Improved Audiobook Support
+
+          The Audiobooks library is now enabled by default, and audiobook
+          tracks are now better organized into books.  The last position in
+          each book is automatically saved, so you can resume playing a book
+          right from where you stopped.
+
+      * User Manual
+
+            Available via Help » Contents menu and F1.  Uses the latest
+            GNOME documentation technology, Mallard.
+
+      * Bulk Metadata Fixer
+
+            New extension for bulk metadata fixing to merge artists, albums,
+            and genres that vary only by case, '&' vs 'and', etc.
+
+      * MPRIS v2 support (Ubuntu Sound Menu, etc)
 
     Enhancements:
 
+      * Now Playing simplify mode that declutters the UI
+      * Play Queue shuffle action
+      * Improve the downloading and visual refreshing of new cover art
+      * Many MeeGo specific improvements and fixes
+      * New preference to have the classic album layout instead of the grid view
+      * Support for reading and writing MusicBrainz IDs
+      * Show the TrackEditor fields as read-only mode when they are not editable
+      * Add metadata-saving support for File System Queue (bgo#609411)
       * Decrease the latency in changing playback volume
+      * Overhaul GNOME proxy support (bmc#1920)
+      * Refresh podcast feeds when network is reconnected
+      * Miro Guide teaser in Podcasts
+      * Podcast errors shown to user
+      * Improved Last.fm authentication experience
+      * Last.fm streaming can be disabled separately from the other Last.fm
+        features.
+      * Play menu item in track context menu
+      * Wrap long strings in the Now Playing view
+      * Add visual separators in the source view between categories of sources
+      * Culturally format the status bar item count (e.g. in en_US 1,000
+        instead of the old 1000)
+      * Tweak the grid view album artwork hover effect
+      * Default smart playlists hidden when empty, for new users
       * Begin editing the name of newly added playlists
-      * Put all videos in the video folder on MTP devices
-
-    Notable Bugs Fixed (26 fixed since 1.7.5):
-
-      * bgo#629314: [AppleDevice] Correct capacity/free values
-      * bgo#628992: [AppleDevice]Bundle libgpod-sharp.dll.config fixing crash
+      * "Amazon MP3s" Music smart playlist
+      * Improved device support:
+          * Droid X, Galaxy Portal, Xperia X10, and DEXT/CLIQ device support
+          * Improved Maemo device support
+          * Better MTP device detection
+          * Put all videos in the video folder on MTP devices
+
+    API/Dependency Changes:
+
+      * DBus API additions for showing various dialogs
+      * New Banshee.WebBrowser API for creating embedded WebKit web browsers
+        and sources: used by the new Amazon MP3 store, Miro Guide, and the
+        Wikipedia context pane
+      * New Hyena.Downloader API for performing downloads and easy
+        HTTP operations: HttpFileDownloader, HttpStringDownloader
+      * Drop dependency of webkit-sharp, take dependency directly on
+        libwebkit 1.2.2+ for new Banshee.WebBrowser API
+
+    Notable Bugs Fixed (230 fixed since 1.6.0):
+
+      * Fix for fullscreen video under Mutter
+      * Fix videos playing back in a new window
+      * Fix crashes related to Gtk.Widget subclassing
+      * Fix crashes related to a11y
+      * NotificationArea fixes
+      * Cover art aspect ratio/scaling fixes
+      * Fix Youtube playback
+      * Fix deletion of Podcast metadata during modification
+      * Fix a crash related to the notification deamon
+      * Fix fetching cover for albums with several discs
+      * Several fixes for the N800 device
+      * Fix various volume-related issues
+      * bgo#621480: Fix Play Queue when using it with different locales
+      * bgo#621687: Fix the Internet Archive playback
+      * bgo#613333: Correct Play Queue track reordering
+      * bgo#624667: Fix cover art refreshing
+      * bgo#622826: Fix a slow running query to speed things up
+      * bgo#602840: Fix importing of compilation albums
+      * bgo#622028: Fix loading of libbnpx11.so on some distros
+      * bgo#621955: Wrap instead of elipsize Last.fm titles
+      * bgo#608382: Escape %20 in filenames for items without embedded metadata
+      * bgo#624531: Escape Uri value in SQL query
+      * bgo#588255: Fix notification icon transparency
+      * bgo#619036: Fix glitchy search entry
+      * bgo#624569: Fix scrolling Extensions list with keyboard
+      * bgo#553433: Fix issue that could block song scrobbling
+      * bgo#600340: Fix subscribing to certain podcasts (eg podbean.com)
+      * bgo#620826: Fix URIs of tracks synced to iPods
+      * bmc#1115:   Fix a pipeline deadlock evident on MeeGo
+      * bgo#626786: Prevent crash in search-for-artist when blank
+      * bgo#628388: Fix overflow bug with MTP playlists
+      * bgo#625683: Fixup checkboxes now clickable
+      * bgo#626928: Fetch podcast artwork asap
+      * bgo#626791: Catch crashes caused by missing extensions
+      * bgo#528383: Re-enable writing video metadata to file
+      * bgo#626803: Fix Ogg rating parsing in non-English locales
       * bgo#628832: [MTP] Fix MTP-device memory issues breaking Playlists, Albums
       * bgo#629095: [MTP] Fix MTP devices being named '???'
       * bgo#629373: [MTP] Workaround MTP sigsegv bug
@@ -41,9 +162,9 @@ SOURCES / PACKAGES
 Sources
 -------
 
-    * Banshee 1.7.6 Tarballs:
-      http://download.banshee.fm/banshee/unstable/1.7.6/banshee-1-1.7.6.tar.bz2
-      http://download.banshee.fm/banshee/unstable/1.7.6/banshee-1-1.7.6.tar.gz
+    * Banshee 1.8.0 Tarballs:
+      http://download.banshee.fm/banshee/stable/1.8.0/banshee-1-1.8.0.tar.bz2
+      http://download.banshee.fm/banshee/stable/1.8.0/banshee-1-1.8.0.tar.gz
 
 Packages
 --------
@@ -65,8 +186,8 @@ Packages
 ChangeLogs & Checksums
 ----------------------
 
-    * http://download.banshee.fm/banshee/unstable/1.7.6/banshee-1-1.7.6.changes
-    * http://download.banshee.fm/banshee/unstable/1.7.6/banshee-1-1.7.6.sha256sum
+    * http://download.banshee.fm/banshee/stable/1.8.0/banshee-1-1.8.0.changes
+    * http://download.banshee.fm/banshee/stable/1.8.0/banshee-1-1.8.0.sha256sum
 
 
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@@ -138,7 +259,7 @@ REPORT BUGS - HELP THE PROJECT - GROW THE COMMUNITY
     hesitate to file bugs!
 
     * http://banshee.fm/contribute/file-bugs
-    * http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=banshee&version=1.7.6
+    * http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=banshee&version=1.8.0
 
 
 ===============================================================================
@@ -151,15 +272,28 @@ Contributors For This Release
     The following people directly contributed to the release of this version
     of Banshee. Without their help, there would be no release!
 
-      Alan McGovern, Alex Launi, Alexander Kojevnikov, Andrés G. Aragoneses,
-      Bertrand Lorentz, Christian Krause, Gabriel Burt, Iain Lane, Zhou Ting
+      Aaron Bockover, Alan McGovern, Alexander Kojevnikov, Alex Launi,
+      Alex Mauer, Andreas Nilsson, Andrés G. Aragoneses, Aurélien Mino,
+      Benjamín Valero Espinosa, Bertrand Lorentz, Chow Loong Jin,
+      Christian Krause, Claude Paroz, David Nielsen, Félix Velasco,
+      Gabriel Burt, Iain Lane, Ján Sokoly, Jensen Somers, Jeroen Budts,
+      Jordi Mas, Julien Moutte, Kevin Duffus, Michał Sawicz, Mike Gemünde,
+      Nicolo' Chieffo, Paul Cutler, Pete Johanson, Robin Stocker,
+      Ruben Vermeersch, Zhou Ting
 
     The following people contributed updated translations to this release.
     Without them, our project's reach would be much more limited.
 
-      A S Alam, Andrej Žnidaršič, António Lima, Bruno Brouard, Gabor Kelemen,
-      Joe Hansen, Jordi Mas, Mario Blättermann
-
+      Alexandre Prokoudine, Andrej Žnidaršič, Andre Klapper, António Lima,
+      Aron Xu, A S Alam, Baris Cicek, Benjamin Valero Espinosa, Bruce Cowan,
+      Bruno Brouard, Cheng-Chia Tseng, Christian.Kirbach, Claude Paroz,
+      Daniel Nylander, Daniel S. Koda, Emmanouel Kapernaros, Félix Velasco,
+      Fran Diéguez, Gabor Kelemen, Gianvito Cavasoli, Hendrik Richter,
+      Joe Hansen, Jordi Mas, Kentaro KAZUHAMA, Kristjan Schmidt,
+      Marek Černocký, Mario Blättermann, Maxim V. Dziumanenko,
+      Michel Recondo, Og B. Maciel, Petr Kovar, Ville-Pekka Vainio,
+      Wouter Bolsterlee, Xandru Armesto, Žygimantas Beručka,
+      Βασίλης Κοντογιάννης
 
 Contributors In Past Releases
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