--- ray/doc/notes/ReleaseNotes	2024/06/07 18:19:22	1.452
+++ ray/doc/notes/ReleaseNotes	2024/09/11 18:56:11	1.458
@@ -2700,3 +2700,21 @@ Added rcomb -n option for multi-processing of very lar
 
 Made it so rsplit and rlam can handle any number of input files
 up to active open file descriptor limit.
+
+Taoning Wang added genssky tool for generating spectral sky
+descriptions.
+
+Taoning added gensdaymtx utility based on gendaymtx, and
+added epw2wea -a option to include required information.
+
+Fixed bug introduced in Auguest 2022 (5.4 release) in distant
+light source sampling, which caused aiming failures.  (Thanks
+to Mike DiPompeo of LightStanza for reporting the issue.)
+
+Added rxpict rendering tool based on C++ RpictSimulManager class.
+Multi-processing and spectral output are supported.
+
+Added crude ability to read and convert spectra to RGB in ximage,
+ra_bmp, and ra_rgbe programs.  Also updated fast tone-mapping
+library to handle spectral HSR inputs at the same time.  HSR
+input handling was added in a similar fashion to pcond and pvalue.