release preparations
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+What is new in 0.95
+
+* Optimized read/write operations. Raw throughput has increased to
+about 60Mbyte/s on a Celeron/360
+
+* Python bindings by Jeff Epler
+
+* Perl bindings by Mark Glines
+
+* Improved multithreaded operation
+
+* Simplified library interface
+
+* Bugfixes
+
+============================================================================
+
What is new in 0.9:
* Everything