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pr0nor-0.1.2 lets you create databases on demand via the -d flag. No more "make newdb" needed. The deletion of tags and files is a bit faster now.
And finally, there are man pages for pr0nor and pr0nor.conf.

pr0nor-0.1.1 improves the tagging support with auto tagging based on the path values of the files.

pr0nor-0.1.0 tries to eliminate some of the limitations of older releases.
So now, you can create, delete, apply and remove multiple tags at once. There's no limit to the number of mimetypes anymore and nearly all characters in filenames are allowed. Besides that the new -L option lets you consume a collection backwards.
As always see the release notes and the readme file for details.

pr0nor-0.0.9 doesn't bring any new features but improved compatibility by switching the build process to bsd.prog.mk, see the readme file for the new instructions.
Now you can run it on FreeBSD and likely on DragonFly BSD, too.

pr0nor-0.0.8 brings some rough tag support (just for you Potti).
You can create tags, delete tags, tag files, untag files and select tagged files for consumption.
Please note, you will need a new database for this release.
See the readme file for details.

pr0nor-0.0.7 fixes a stupid off by one bug in the parsing code for the mimetypes causing the first mimetype of the config being prefixed with "=".
Besides this fix 0.0.7 brings some internal improvements and simplifications of the code.

pr0nor-0.0.6 brings the much needed mimetype based filtering for the initialization and update of a pr0nor db. See the readme.txt and the pr0nor.conf.sample for the configuration details.

To avoid new dependencies and to keep it simple, I chose to use file(1), the -i switch to be exact, to determine the mimetype of a given file. The big advantage of using file(1) is the possibility to use file(1) yourself to determine the mimetypes you want pr0nor to filter on.
As pr0nor reads the output of file(1) via the popen(3) function, mimetype filtering comes with a slowdown and the need to have sane filenames.
It's too dangerous to process shell special characters with popen(), so the mimetype check of pr0nor will reject every file that contains funny characters like ` or ; and so on.

With pr0nor-0.0.5 you can use different configuration files via the new -c option. So now you can have a config for your music collection, your picture collection, your movie collection and so on.
Just use make newdb to create empty db files for your various collections and let your config files point to them.

pr0nor-0.0.3 brings some documentation and various small tweaks.

I just finished pr0nor-0.0.2.
The most important change is the new search feature:
$ pr0nor -s "expr"
will play all files with expr in their path.
I will provide some real documentation in the next few days.