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-gst-vaapi NEWS -- summary of changes.  2013-07-15
+gst-vaapi NEWS -- summary of changes.  2013-08-DD
 Copyright (C) 2010-2011 Splitted-Desktop Systems
 Copyright (C) 2011-2013 Intel Corporation
 Copyright (C) 2011 Collabora
 
+Version 0.5.6 - DD.Aug.2013
+* Add render-to-pixmap API to bypass VA/GLX in clutter-gst
+* Add initial support for video-processing APIs (+Halley Zhao)
+* Add support for video cropping and deinterlacing to the Wayland backend
+* Add "force-aspect-ratio" property to vaapisink (Simon Farnsworth)
+* Fix support for clutter-gst in GStreamer 0.10 builds
+* Fix HW accelerated rendering with SW decoded pipelines
+* Fix videotestsrc ! vaapisink pipelines (Guangxin Xu)
+* Fix memory leak of raw video uploader objects (Feng Yuan)
+* Fix decoding without a video parser element before `vaapidecde'
+* Fix regression in MPEG-2 decoder due to incomplete video cropping support
+* Fix dead-lock condition on Wayland when the end-of-stream is reached
+
 Version 0.5.5 - 15.Jul.2013
 * Allow creation of video surfaces with an explicit pixel format
 * Allocate VA/GLX capable buffers by default on X11 servers (Victor Jaquez)