+Beta Release 0.1.16 (21 April, 2011)
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Notable changes in samtools:
+
+ * Support the new SAM/BAM type `B' in the latest SAM spec v1.4.
+
+ * When the output file of `samtools merge' exists, do not overwrite it unless
+ a new command-line option `-f' is applied.
+
+ * Bugfix: BED support is not working when the input BED is not sorted.
+
+ * Bugfix: some reads without coordinates but given on the reverse strand are
+ lost in merging.
+
+Notable changes in bcftools:
+
+ * Code cleanup: separated max-likelihood inference and Bayesian inference.
+
+ * Test Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium with a likelihood-ratio test.
+
+ * Provided another association test P-value by likelihood-ratio test.
+
+ * Use Brent's method to estimate the site allele frequency when EM converges
+ slowly. The resulting ML estimate of allele frequnecy is more accurate.
+
+ * Added the `ldpair' command, which computes r^2 between SNP pairs given in
+ an input file.
+
+Also, the `pileup' command, which has been deprecated by `mpileup' since
+version 0.1.10, will be dropped in the next release. The old `pileup' command
+is substandard and causing a lot of confusion.
+
+(0.1.16: 21 April 2011, r963:234)
+
+
+
+Beta Release 0.1.15 (10 April, 2011)
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Noteable changes:
+
+ * Allow to perform variant calling or to extract information in multiple
+ regions specified by a BED file (`samtools mpileup -l', `samtools view -L'
+ and `bcftools view -l').
+
+ * Added the `depth' command to samtools to compute the per-base depth with a
+ simpler interface. File `bam2depth.c', which implements this command, is the
+ recommended example on how to use the mpileup APIs.
+
+ * Estimate genotype frequencies with ML; perform chi^2 based Hardy-Weinberg
+ test using this estimate.
+
+ * For `samtools view', when `-R' is specified, drop read groups in the header
+ that are not contained in the specified file.
+
+ * For `samtools flagstat', separate QC-pass and QC-fail reads.
+
+ * Improved the command line help of `samtools mpileup' and `bcftools view'.
+
+ * Use a global variable to control the verbose level of samtools stderr
+ output. Nonetheless, it has not been full utilized.
+
+ * Fixed an issue in association test which may report false associations,
+ possibly due to floating point underflow.
+
+(0.1.15: 10 April 2011, r949:203)
+
+
+
+Beta release 0.1.14 (21 March, 2011)