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+Changes since 3.33:   * Turned `memoryLimit' off by default, sigh.  Apparently
+                        some versions of the GL libraries (appear to) allocate
+                        hundreds of megs for every GL program, so `memoryLimit'
+                        was causing GL programs to malfunction or crash on
+                        those systems.
+                      * Improved fading on TrueColor XFree86 4.1.x systems.
+                      * New GL hack, `circuit'.
+                      * Added `fuzz' mode to `decayscreen'.
+                      * New version of `whirlygig'.
+                      * Added links to `glplanet' and `sphereEversion'.
+                      * Fixed rare race condition that could make `sonar' hang.
+                      * Fixed potential crash in `speedmine'.
+                      * Made `xscreensaver-demo' not crash when imageDirectory
+                        was set to a non-existent directory.
+                      * Made `xscreensaver-getimage-video' invoke XawTV's
+                        `streamer' program better.
+                      * Made `phosphor' and `starwars' deal with CR, LF, 
+                        or CRLF line endings.
+                      * Changes for Cygwin compilation environments.
+                      * Made `sonar' compile on systems that can't ping.
+                      * Configure changes for HPUX 10.20.
+                      * Made PAM code work on Red Had 4.2 systems.
+                      * Made `xscreensaver-command -deactivate' work when the
+                        saver is not active: what that does is reset the idle
+                        timer, as if keyboard input had been detected.  This
+                        was added for the benefit of people writing DVD-playing
+                        software: they can now prevent the screensaver from
+                        kicking in by sending a -deactivate message once a
+                        minute while the movie is playing and not paused.
+                      * Various minor portability tweaks.
+Changes since 3.32:   * New hacks, `speedmine' and `whirlygig'.
+                      * Sped up `pyro', made the explosions look a bit better.
+                      * Added better stars to `glplanet' and `starwars'.
+                      * Many internal changes to `webcollage'.
+                      * Some new options to `attraction'.
+                      * Minor fix to `noseguy' to avoid un-erased pixels.
+                      * Rewrote the screen-eraser effects so that they complete
+                        in the same amount of time regardless of how slow
+                        your X server is (some of them were glacial on servers
+                        with slow blitting.)
+                      * Fixed a potential free memory reference that could
+                        sometimes cause a crash at startup.
+                      * Possibly fixed a problem that could cause the daemon
+                        to crash with an X error.  I was never able to
+                        reproduce this problem, but I think I might have
+                        figured out what caused it.
+                      * Worked around a problem that caused PAM authentication
+                        to fail on some Red Hat 7.x systems.
+                      * Added a `memoryLimit' parameter that controls the
+                        amount of memory a graphics hack may allocate: if they
+                        try to allocate more than this, malloc() will fail
+                        (and they will exit or (safely) crash, rather than
+                        hogging memory.)  Default is 50M.
+                      * Made `gnome-help-browser' be the default way to display
+                        man pages in `xscreensaver-demo', if running on a 
+                        GNOME system.
+Changes since 3.31:   * The image-manipulating hacks (`slidescreen', etc.) can
+                        now operate on randomly chosen image files from disk,
+                        or on frames captured from the system's video input,
+                        instead of (or in addition to) manipulating images of
+                        the desktop.
+                      * Rewrote `vidwhacker' to use the new image-grabbing
+                        mechanism.
+                      * Made fading work on TrueColor XFree86 4.x systems.
+                      * Fixed a subtle rendering bug in `atlantis' (the fish
+                        were inside out!)
+                      * Made `atlantis' have a texture simulating light
+                        reflections from the surface of the ocean.
+                      * Fixed up label placement in `molecule'.
+                      * Better color bars in `xteevee'.
+                      * Made `install-strip' not try to strip scripts.
 Changes since 3.30:   * Put in more sensible defaults for DPMS, and updated
                         the documentation to reflect the fact that all your
                         DPMS settings are now belong to xscreensaver.