--- ray/doc/notes/ReleaseNotes	2016/03/15 20:35:41	1.277
+++ ray/doc/notes/ReleaseNotes	2020/04/06 21:13:33	1.367
@@ -2058,7 +2058,7 @@ Fixed early exit of rcontrib with internal error (samp
 discovered by Rob G.
 
 =================================
-Version 5.1
+Version 5.1 (Released 8/17/2017)
 
 Fixed issue with vchars.mta and symbols.mta not being installed in
 the appropriate metafile library location, with help from Rob G.
@@ -2085,3 +2085,277 @@ but not 10 minutes like it was taking before the fix.
 
 Enabled ambient cache value corral for all levels, not just final two.
 This may reduce errors in certain pathological scenes.
+
+Added -in option to rcalc, rlam, and total to limit the number of
+input records in hopes of circumventing Windows EOF issues on binary data.
+Also added -on option to rcalc and total for logical symmetry.
+
+Increased modifier limit to 10,000 in rcontrib.
+
+Fixed issues with glrad and added zoom response to mouse wheel input.
+
+Added missing definition of "ashik2" material type to reference manual.
+
+Changed genBSDF to calculate device thickness assuming Zmax==0 so
+pkgBSDF will generate correct proxy geometry.
+
+Created pabopto2xyz tool to combine different sensor measurements
+into a single CIE-XYZ measurement file for color BSDF interpolation.
+
+Jan Wienold updated evalglare to version 1.30
+
+Roland Schregle added out-of-core photon mapping routines, which
+may be compiled using the PMAP_OOC macro.
+
+Added -a option to getinfo for easy addition of header lines.
+
+Fixed issue with multiple records on picture output in rcontrib (and rfluxmtx).
+Credit to Sarith Subramaniam for pointing out the problem.
+
+Made mkillum more tolerant of non-planar polygons in its sampling routines.
+
+Added "-recover" option to genBSDF to pick up where it left off.
+
+Fixed genBSDF issue that was created incorrect normalization of
+Klems output.  Thanks to David G-M and Christian Knoflach for
+discovering the error.  Also improved sampling of indirect irradiance
+that showed some slight bias due to poor sample collision avoidance.
+
+Fixed long-standing issue with -aa 0 neglecting textures in calculating
+surface shading.
+
+Fixed bug in ranimove introduced during photon map integration.
+
+Added check for steep sections of BSDF in pabopto2bsdf, creating narrower
+peakes in those places and mitigating some normalization issues.
+
+Added view360stereo.cal by Mark Stock to handle 360-degree over/under
+stereo views.
+
+Added MAX2SHADE macro to place limit on number of light sources
+to precheck for obstructions.  (Currently set to 200.)  This
+avoids excessive start-up times for scenes with many light sources.
+Thanks to Axel Jacobs for pointing out the problem.
+
+Added -v option to obj2mesh to print out mesh statistics.
+
+Rewrote bsdf2rad from ground up and made it a standard part of build.
+
+Fixed bug in orientation of Reinhart/Tregenza sample generator in rfluxmtx.
+
+Added ability to perform shadow-testing through unproxied BSDFs with strong
+through (direct-direct) component.
+
+Added {+|-}a options to genBSDF and bsdf2ttree for switching off reciprocity
+averaging.
+
+Added bias to see through BTDFs with a strong "through" component
+rather than scattering view rays.  This is in lieu of peak extraction,
+which looked to be too difficult from an implementation standpoint.
+
+Added bsdfview tool analogous to objview but for BSDF files (XML and SIR),
+which calls bsdf2rad then rad with a few useful default views.
+
+=========================
+Version 5.2 (Release October 8, 2018)
+
+Created psketch program to apply non-photorealistic rendering to selected
+objects, identified by modifier name(s).
+
+Added '*' and '/' operations to rmtxop for element-wise multiplication and
+division of same-sized matrices.
+
+Changed falsecolor so "-s" option is adjusted to match legend if one.
+
+Falsecolor legend changes and improvements by David G-M and Stephen W.
+
+Fixed bug in peak extraction code that generated
+"Bad call to SDqueryTreProjSA" error, reported by Lars Grobe.
+
+Increased maximum luminance to 10^7 in pcond to fix issue noticed
+by Axel Jacobs where veiling glare not added for the sun under
+some conditions.
+
+Increased maximum number of open files in rcontrib to the system upper
+limit of 2048 rather than the default 512 under Windows.
+
+Added top-level resources directory with files from Rob Guglielmetti.
+
+Improved accuracy for peaky BSDFs and small light sources.
+
+Fixed issue with pmapdump noted by Axel Jacobs.
+
+Improved accuracy of bsdf2ttree when converting scattering interpolation
+representatons with strong peaks.
+
+Tweaked peak-extraction code to work more reliably.
+
+Georg Mischler updated SCons build system.
+
+Rob Guglielmetti and Alex Swindler updated CMake build system.
+
+Modified pcomb so the first view seen in the inputs is written into header.
+
+Wrote rtpict script to run rtrace in parallel mode and simulate rpict with
+-n option.
+
+Added ability to move forwards/backwards specified distance in rvu "origin"
+command.  Feature requested by John Mardaljevic, who essentially owns this
+command, now.
+
+Reduced bias in ambient super-sampling method.
+
+Fixed bugs associated with zero transmission in chromatic tensor trees.
+Thanks to Lars Grobe for pointing out issues.
+
+Added RAYPATH searching for -f options to genrev, gensurf, genworm,
+bsdf2klems, bsdf2ttree, and pcomb.  This makes behavior consistent
+with rcalc, calc, and rendering tools.
+
+Worked with Randolph Fritz to fix some issues with ies2rad and newer
+IESNA63 standards.
+
+Resurrected original bsdf2rad test program, renaming it bsdf2rado. Still an
+optional build in src/cv/.
+
+Fixed bug in rcontrib with virtual sources, where pretest was adding
+to modifier accumulation buffers.  Reported by Mostapha.
+
+Added an "aBSDF" material type that explicitly checks for peak extraction.
+Its arguments are the same as the original "BSDF" type, but without the
+thickness parameter, as proxy geometry is not supported by this new type.
+The old "BSDF" type no longer does peak extraction under any circumstances,
+since this behavior is superfluous for proxied geometry.
+
+Added -r option to bsdf2rad (and bsdfview) to fix BSDF min and max range
+for comparing BSDFs.
+
+Fixed issue with pfilt -m option and uneven image size changes pointed
+out by Rob Shakespeare.
+
+Updates to evalglare and gendaylit from Jan Wienold, including new
+colored sky option.
+
+=========================
+Version 5.3
+
+Created radcompare program to compare Radiance tool output to reference outputs
+during unit-testing.
+
+Fixed issue reading very large files (> 2 GBytes) in rcollate.
+
+Made picking function in rvu ignore transparent and void surfaces.
+
+Added -orRxX options to rtrace to enable output of mirrored and unmirrored
+contributions and distances to enable new types of reprojections.  This also
+cleaned up and unified handling of effective ray lengths throughout code.
+
+Bug fixes from Jan Wienold for evalglare.
+
+Changed indexed (numbered) output from dctimestep to start from 0 rather
+than 1, to make it more consistent with expected input naming.
+
+Increased default sampling in bsdf2klems (-n option) to 1024.
+
+Fixed an issue noticed by David G-M that was causing genBSDF to bias
+isotropic tensor tree samples resulting in subsequent failure of
+peak extraction with "aBSDF" type.
+
+Introduced max() and min() functions to .cal library.
+
+Added random incident patch sampling to bsdf2klems to improve accuracy
+with scattering interpolation representation input (e.g., from
+pabopto2bsdf).  The other input types already sampled incident patch area.
+
+Added gendaymtx -A option to compute average sky over all the input
+time steps.
+
+Added ability to output color image from rtrace with any of -ovrx options.
+Also fixed inconsistency of -oN output when ray casting versus full trace.
+Before, it would flip normal to front side unless ray casting.  Now, -oN
+always reports the unflipped normal.
+
+Changed rlam behavior so -iaN reads N lines from a stream rather than N
+characters.  This seems more useful, since -ibN is somewhat redundant with
+the old behavior.
+
+Created rsplit program as compliment to rlam and to handle more complex
+rtrace output into separate files or streams.
+
+Improved getinfo so that it can also hop over resolution string with -c
+and header elide mode.  Use +d to include resolution string in output,
+and -d to elide with - and -c options.
+
+Made pvalue -u option mean "uncompressed" with -r.  Also, allow skipping
+bytes on standard input.
+
+Created rcode_depth tool to convert to and from a 16-bit/pixel portable
+depth image encoding that uses a mix of linear and reciprocal distance
+with explicit representations of 0 and infinity.  Code for loading these
+depth maps is in src/common/depthcodec.{h,c}.
+
+Created rcode_norm tool to convert to and from 32-bit/pixel portable
+surface normal representation, matching the one in src/common/dircode.c.
+Code for loading normal maps is in src/common/normcodec.{h,c}.
+
+Created rcode_ident tool to create indexed identifier files.
+Code for loading these files is in src/common/idmap.{h,c}.
+
+Added -o* option to rtpict to produce layered images that handle most
+output types from rtrace (colors, surface normals, distances, IDs).
+
+Created rcode2bmp script to create images from new rcode_* output maps.
+
+Improved efficiency of rmtxop in cases where matrix multiplication is
+faster evaluated right-to-left, as when the final component is a
+column vector.  Also added ability to apply trailing unary operators
+(-t, and -s or -c) to resulting matrix.
+
+Added new depth, normal, and ID file types to radcompare.
+
+Added BigEndian= header line for automatic byte-swapping in rmtxop
+and radcompare.  Doesn't work quite as automatically as it should
+for pvalue -r, currently.
+
+Added new "turbo" palette to falsecolor (thanks to Taoning).
+
+Nathaniel Jones created the "dcglare" program for annual glare
+simulations when the sun and sky are visible through the window.
+Tutorial is posted at
+"https://github.com/nljones/Accelerad/wiki/The-Imageless-Method-for-Spatial-and-Annual-Glare-Analysis".
+
+Added support for loading RGBE images into matrices in dctimestep.
+
+Added -y option to gensky and gendaylit to support more accurate Michalsky
+solar position calculation.
+
+Changed rsplit so specifying a space as the separator parses words
+between whitespace.
+
+Added ability of vwrays, pinterp, and pmblur2 to read encoded depth files.
+
+Added -o RxCxR1xC1 facility to perform blocking in rcollate.
+
+Made it so number of segments in genworm, genrev, and gensurf can be
+given as expressions of previously defined variables, etc.
+
+Added -D and -n option to gendaymtx to output sun description and skip
+matrix output on request.
+
+Updated eplus_uvf to work with IDF version 9.x, checking version number.
+
+Fix to glarendx issues with dgi calculation.
+
+Made it so rmtxop and dctimestep undo any exposure applied to Radiance
+pictures they may load.
+
+Added objutil utility to manipulate Wavefront .OBJ files.
+
+Fixed a crash related to rtrace -om or -oM with mesh instances containing
+materials.
+
+Improved rtrace flushing function to handle any value for -x without
+deadlock on controlling process.
+
+Eliminated unnecessary start-up procedures for rtrace when only ray-casting
+is needed (i.e., no tracing or value output).