0.62: 03-07-2005
	- added correct return codes to indicate whether reading
	  succeeded or found bad sectors in command line mode
	- added experimental support for splitting image files into 2GB chunks
	  (mainly for use with VFAT an Win9x; avoid this mode if you can)
	- added compare function to graphical user interface
	- fixed 'make install' (thanks to Andreas for noting the problems)
	- fixed german umlaut glitch in the foot line (thanks to GoldenFingaz
	  for pointing this out)
	
0.61: 24-04-2005
	- added preferences dialog
	- decoupled command line settings from GUI settings so that
	  command line arguments will not be remembered across sessions
	  and GUI settings will not be used in command line mode.
	- more image size detection fine tuning (this becomes a running gag, huh?)
	- added --speed-warning option (thanks to Richard B. for the suggestion!)
	- added --spinup-delay option
	- removed startup-related downspike in the speed graph

0.60: 09-04-2005
	- first release with graphical user interface
	- tinkered again with image size detection
	- added debugging function for zeroing out the "unreadable sector"
	  markers (thanks to Marcus J. for the suggestion!)
	- made configure more compatible with autoconf behaviour 
	  (thanks to Andreas for pointing out the differences!)

0.55: 20-02-2005
	- added Italian translation from Andrea Polverini (polve@polve.com)
	- improved media type detection
	- upward compatibility with the improved media footprint calculation
	  from upcoming version 0.60

0.54: 01-01-2005
	- Switched from Cygwin/cygwin1.dll to Mingw/msvcrt.dll,
	  with some additional functionality taken over by glib2.
	  This may cause some short-time inconvenience (please report
	  all different behaviour relative to 0.53.1!),
	  but will pay off in later versions. 
	- Some code reorganization.
	- Shortened the version number scheme to major.minor
	- Removed visualization via gnuplot. Visualization will be
	  re-introduced in version 0.60; please use version 0.53.1
	  for visualization if needed.
	- Reworked compilation instructions in documentation.

0.53.1: 27-12-2004
	- encrypted discs will be rejected before any actual reading
	  is attempted (avoids confusing error messages when running into
	  the encrypted area).

0.53.0: 23-12-2004
	- introduction of GNU gettext
	- German localization
	- Makefile will automatically collect .c files
	- Preparation for multiple codecs
	- fixed incorrect media size calculation for +RW images
	- fixed installation procedure (thanks to Kay D. !)

0.52.1: 04-12-2004
	- Fixed the handling of truncated image files (thanks to Harald B.!)
	- Better diagnosis of images which are longer than supposed
	  (should never happen, but one never knows)

0.52.0: 28-11-2004
	- codec speedups and user selectable redundancy settings

0.51.1: 13-11-2004
	- fixed bug which prevented dvdisaster from working
	  under Windows XP without Cygwin being installed
	  (thanks to Andrea and Harald B. for reporting this!)
	- removed unnecessary open with write permission 
	  within --test action
	- Besides bringing scanning speed to a screeching halt on
	  slow systems, calculation of the image md5sum during
	  the --scan option wasn't very useful -- removed it.
	- repaired a glitch which would derail the codec when
	  fixing a truncated image
	- added --dao option
	- added a test predicting a TAO medium when fixing a
	  damaged image
	
0.51.0: 06-11-2004
	- added experimental ASPI support for Cygwin version
	- added alternative "-end" syntax for specifying the sector range
	- added -j/--jump option
	- fixed minor bug which made -t option fail reading the CRC data
	  on very small media images
	
0.50.0: 01-10-2004
	- Experimental Cygwin support.
	- Rewrote SCSI layer for portability.
	- Introduced ./configure mechanism.
	- Dropped --direct option for portability reasons.
	- Changed behaviour of continuing the reading of incomplete images;
	  if the image size is smaller than the medium size, reading will
	  now continue at the last read sector. Previous versions would have
	  tried all unread sectors before.
	- Fixed a bug which would not fill in the missing sector markers
	  on a sequence of non overlapping read intervals (such as doing
	  -r0-100000; -r110000-media_end; the range 100001-109999 would
	  have been simply zeroed out in previous versions).

0.42.2: 23-09-2004
	- changed the --fix semantics so that sectors with wrong CRC sums 
	  will automatically be fixed (previous versions would just report
	  them as bad when using the -t option)
	- made --fix more verbose about CRC errors

0.42.1: 11-09-2004
	- unrolled the inner codec loop; optimized some C expressions within
	- code cleanup in the encoder

0.42.0: (no public release)
	- changed the caching and code generation strategy in the RS encoder
	- added program version information in the ecc file header
	- updated the --print option to show the new header information
	- made --fix option reject .ecc files from future program versions

0.41.2: 05-09-2004
	- some speed optimizations in the encoder
	- the --direct option now actually works 
	- removed the #ifdef DEBUG clutter in ecc-rs01.c
	- added the --byteset debugging function

	NOTE: Debugging functions are intentionally undocumented and unsupported.

0.41.1: 31-08-2004
	- added CRC32 checksum for each image block in the .ecc file

0.41.0: 28-08-2004 (no public release)
	- Replaced the matrix-based codec with one using polynomials.

0.40.8: 24-08-2004 (no public release)
	- removed unused div_tab[] from ecc-rs01.c (which was incorrectly initialized anyways)
	- fixed md5sum miscompare in print.c	
	- added the --random-errors debugging function

	NOTE: Debugging functions are intentionally undocumented and unsupported.

0.40.7:	22-08-2004
	First public release