- update to 5.12.0
  * New Features
    - Improvements to the template manager dialog.
    - Lua templates for tracks and sessions can now be created/scripted.
    - New session dialog functionality improved, with new templates and track wizards.
    - New track dialog functionality improved, with new templates and track wizards.
    - Expose Lua bindings for VCA create/delete/assign/unassign.
    - New patch selector dialog for MIDI tracks. This can be accessed by right clicking in the track header area.
    - Ardour's generic GUI for instrument plugins now includes a keyboard to allow auditioning the plugin settings.
    - Support for a new LV2 extension to notify the host about MIDI bank/program changes (e.g. driven by the plugin's own GUI).
    - Faderport 8: double-click on select button resets gain to 0dB.
    - Display playback-only devices when using JACK.
  * General Fixes and Improvements
    - Fix MIDI quantization when not using US English.
    - Fix selection of quantization note-end grid size.
    - Catch exceptions thrown from Lua scripts.
    - Fix handling of MIDI channels in the Transform dialog.
    - Improve the heuristic used to display track/bus I/O connections in a compact form, as well a connection menus.
    - Clicks on I/O menus now always connect, rather than toggle connected status.
    - OSC: gracefully handle the user sending the wrong number of parameters.
    - OSC: changing jog mode no longer stops transport unless started by scrub/shuttle.
    - Secondary clock visibility is now a global preference rather than a per-session setting.
    - The editor's summary view is now constrained to the extent of actual regions, rather than the session extent, by default. This can be reset from a right-click on the summary.
    - New configuration setting for playhead auto-scroll speed. If you want to scroll quickly, it is preferred to zoom out first, then scroll.
    - New configuraton setting to define how much zooming will be easily allowed beyond the extents of actual regions in the session.
    - Generic plugin GUI: fix sizing and layout for automation state controls in plugins with many controls.
    - Increase priority of the thread involved in automation recording. This fixes an issue with sparse automation recording when the CPU is busy.
    - Update the included version of NSS (a secure networking library), to provide some features required by some plugins.
    - Fix the way MIDI filenames are "bumped" during snapshots and playlist copying.
    - Fix crash bug in Ableton Push 2 support, introduced in a recent version.

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- update to 5.11.0
  * New Features
    - VCA automation can now be graphically edited.
    - VCAs can now be selected (e.g. from control surfaces).
    - Allow VCA renaming in the editor window.
    - Bindable buttons for VCA solo and mute.
    - Add select-all-tracks shortcut in the mixer window.
    - Template management dialog (both session and track templates).
    - Allow control surfaces to hide/show plugin GUIs.
    - Realtime export now allows listening to channels being exported.
    - Non-layered MIDI recording now works (MIDI regions will be trimmed at the end of recording to avoid overlaps).
    - Add an LTC generator to the Dummy backend.
    - Update colors for the "Caineville" theme.
    - Expose Off/Play states for MIDI CC "automation".
    - Allow touch automation to be done via Ardour's own knobs (e.g. trim control).
  * General Fixes and Improvements
    - Fixes for consistent selection and track/bus ordering.
    - Improve display of dB values.
    - Improvements when dragging control points for log-scale or relative parameters.
    - Lookup VST parameter default values once only, at the correct time.
    - Major code cleanup for locale (internationalization) handling.
    - Create a deep-copy of MIDI sources when saving snapshots.
    - Allow saving state even when audio/MIDI engine is not running.
    - Substantial reworking of waveview rendering code.
    - More differentiation of error messages during startup.
    - Fix for a-fluid handling of out-of-memory conditions.
    - Avoid display/use of "mnemonics" in menu items (shortcuts continue to work as usual).
    - Correct an issue when sending from a source with less channels than the destination.
    - Don't invert azimuth & elevation display value for some panning configurations.
    - Fix undo being invoked from a non-GUI thread.

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- update to 5.10.0
  * General Fixes and Improvements
    - (Time) Range selection and copy/cut/paste now works again.
    - Selection and copy/cut/paste for automation tracks now works again.
    - Extend list of reserved track/port names (including translated versions of "Click").
    - Fix another case where potentially illegal track/port names were not checked correctly.
    - Context click on [Marker] > loop range should set loop range.
    - Tweak/fix splash screen management.
    - Update writable status of a Save-as copy of a Session.
    - Add note name parser to convert to midi note number.
    - VST parameter names can now be up to 128 characters long.
    - Remember the state (shown/hidden, attached/detached) of the Monitor section.
    - Ardour's own custom buttons now correctly reflect the initial state of the action they control.
    - Stop crash after deleting a group.
    - Fix double "Tape" in Record Mode drop down when adding new track.
    - Support note name editing in midi list editor.
    - Fix out-of-bounds waveform image rendering.
    - Set Display Name for OSX/macOS.
    - Fix libhid compile with /recent/ libc (GNU_SOURCE).
    - Fix failure to laod old tempo maps.
    - Use correct variable in BasicUI::jump_by_seconds.
    - Tempo sections with a BBT start XML node are never ramped.
    - Sort tempo map after legacy sections have been assigned a pulse.
    - Include ParameterDescriptor in read-only control output.
    - Implement basic AU parameter-printing.
    - Pretty print control-outputs in generic-UI.
    - Always create a deep copy of MIDI regions when copying playlists.
    - Use correct names when setting MidiTrack properties.
    - Use correct property name in generic MIDI surface.
    - Allow export presets for 176.4KHz.

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