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+Beta Release 0.1.19 (15 March, 2013)
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+Notable changes in samtools and bcftools:
+
+ * The latest source code and development moved to github,
+    http://github.com/samtools/samtools
+
+ * Many important bugfixes and contributions by many people. Thanks to all!
+
+ * Performance improvements (multi-threading)
+
+ * Important changes in calling, see
+    - samtools mpileup -p
+    - bcftools view -m
+ 
+ * New annotations useful for filtering (RPB, HWE, QBD, MDV)
+
+ * New tools, bamcheck and plot-bamcheck
+
+ * New features in samtools tview 
+ 
+ * And much more..
+
+For a detailed list of commits, please see
+http://github.com/samtools/samtools/commits/master
+
+(0.1.19: 15 March 2013, commit 96b5f2294ac0054230e88913c4983d548069ea4e)
+
+
+Beta Release 0.1.18 (2 September, 2011)
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Notable changes in samtools:
+
+ * Support the new =/X CIGAR operators (by Peter Cock).
+
+ * Allow to subsample BAM while keeping the pairing intact (view -s).
+
+ * Implemented variant distance bias as a new filter (by Petr Danecek).
+
+ * Bugfix: huge memory usage during indexing
+
+ * Bugfix: use of uninitialized variable in mpileup (rare)
+
+ * Bugfix: wrong BAQ probability (rare)
+
+Notable changes in bcftools:
+
+ * Support indel in the contrast caller.
+
+ * Bugfix: LRT2=nan in rare cases
+
+(0.1.18: 2 September 2011, r982:295)
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+
 Beta Release 0.1.17 (6 July, 2011)
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