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+Beta Release 0.1.9 (27 October, 2010)
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+This release is featured as the first major improvement to the samtools'
+SNP caller.  It comes with a revised MAQ error model, the support of
+multi-sample SNP calling and the computation of base alignment quality
+(BAQ).
+
+The revised MAQ error model is based on the original model. It solves an
+issue of miscalling SNPs in repetitive regions. Althought such SNPs can
+usually be filtered at a later step, they mess up unfiltered calls. This
+is a theoretical flaw in the original model. The revised MAQ model
+deprecates the orginal MAQ model and the simplified SOAPsnp model.
+
+Multi-sample SNP calling is separated in two steps. The first is done by
+samtools mpileup and the second by a new program, bcftools, which is
+included in the samtools source code tree. Multi-sample SNP calling also
+works for single sample and has the advantage of enabling more powerful
+filtration. It is likely to deprecate pileup in future once a proper
+indel calling method is implemented.
+
+BAQ is the Phred-scaled probability of a read base being wrongly
+aligned. Capping base quality by BAQ has been shown to be very effective
+in suppressing false SNPs caused by misalignments around indels or in
+low-complexity regions with acceptable compromise on computation
+time. This strategy is highly recommended and can be used with other SNP
+callers as well.
+
+In addition to the three major improvements, other notable changes are:
+
+ * Changes to the pileup format. A reference skip (the N CIGAR operator)
+   is shown as '<' or '>' depending on the strand. Tview is also changed
+   accordingly.
+
+ * Accelerated pileup. The plain pileup is about 50% faster.
+
+ * Regional merge. The merge command now accepts a new option to merge
+   files in a specified region.
+
+ * Fixed a bug in bgzip and razip which causes source files to be
+   deleted even if option -c is applied.
+
+ * In APIs, propogate errors to downstream callers and make samtools
+   return non-zero values once errors occur.
+
+(0.1.9: 27 October 2010, r783)
+
+
+
+Beta Release 0.1.8 (11 July, 2010)
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Notable functional changes:
+
+ * Added the `reheader' command which replaces a BAM header with a new
+   header. This command is much faster than replacing header by
+   BAM->SAM->BAM conversions.
+
+ * Added the `mpileup' command which computes the pileup of multiple
+   alignments.
+
+ * The `index' command now stores the number of mapped and unmapped
+   reads in the index file. This information can be retrieved quickly by
+   the new `idxstats' command.
+
+ * By default, pileup used the SOAPsnp model for SNP calling. This
+   avoids the floating overflow in the MAQ model which leads to spurious
+   calls in repetitive regions, although these calls will be immediately
+   filtered by varFilter.
+
+ * The `tview' command now correctly handles CIGARs like 7I10M and
+   10M1P1I10M which cause assertion failure in earlier versions.
+
+ * Tview accepts a region like `=10,000' where `=' stands for the
+   current sequence name. This saves typing for long sequence names.
+
+ * Added the `-d' option to `pileup' which avoids slow indel calling
+   in ultradeep regions by subsampling reads locally.
+
+ * Added the `-R' option to `view' which retrieves alignments in read
+   groups listed in the specified file.
+
+Performance improvements:
+
+ * The BAM->SAM conversion is up to twice faster, depending on the
+   characteristic of the input.
+
+ * Parsing SAM headers with a lot of reference sequences is now much
+   faster.
+
+ * The number of lseek() calls per query is reduced when the query
+   region contains no read alignments.
+
+Bug fixes:
+
+ * Fixed an issue in the indel caller that leads to miscall of indels.
+   Note that this solution may not work well when the sequencing indel
+   error rate is higher than the rate of SNPs.
+
+ * Fixed another issue in the indel caller which may lead to incorrect
+   genotype.
+
+ * Fixed a bug in `sort' when option `-o' is applied.
+
+ * Fixed a bug in `view -r'.
+
+APIs and other changes:
+
+ * Added iterator interfaces to random access and pileup. The callback
+   interfaces directly call the iterator interfaces.
+
+ * The BGZF blocks holding the BAM header are indepedent of alignment
+   BGZF blocks. Alignment records shorter than 64kB is guaranteed to be
+   fully contained in one BGZF block. This change is fully compatible
+   with the old version of samtools/picard.
+
+Changes in other utilities:
+
+ * Updated export2sam.pl by Chris Saunders.
+
+ * Improved the sam2vcf.pl script.
+
+ * Added a Python version of varfilter.py by Aylwyn Scally.
+
+(0.1.8: 11 July 2010, r613)
+
+
+
 Beta Release 0.1.7 (10 November, 2009)
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~