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+Release Notes for Rapid Photo Downloader 0.9.7
+==============================================
+
+ - If you installed Rapid Photo Downloader using the install script, you can
+   update it one of two ways: using the install script again, or using the
+   built-in update procedure. The built-in update procedure is very
+   convenient, but somtimes is limited in terms of what it can update. If you
+   use the install script to update the program, it can update more supporting
+   packages, which can sometimes prove helpful.
+
+ - On some systems, Rapid Photo Downloader cannot use gstreamer to generate
+   video thumbnails for all common video files. Install the good and libav
+   plugins for gstreamer to solve this problem. In Debian and Ubuntu-like
+   systems, the packages are gstreamer1.0-libav gstreamer1.0-plugins-good
+   On Fedora, the packages are gstreamer1-plugins-good and gstreamer1-libav.
+   Fedora users can enable the rpmfusion.org free repository to be able to
+   install gstreamer1-libav.
+
+ - With rawkit being updated to 0.6.0, and the addition of extra plugins to
+   gstreamer, many photos and videos whose thumbnail could not previously be
+   displayed now can be. However, to view those thumbnails for those files
+   that have been previously scanned, purging the thumbnail cache is needed.
+   You can purge the thumbnail cache via the Preferences dialog, accessed via
+   the main menu.
+
+ - For systems running Python 3.6, the recommended pyzmq version is now 16.0.2
+   or newer. If xterm or lxterminal are installed on systems with Python 3.6,
+   the automatic upgrade procedure will attempt to upgrade pymzq if necessary.
+   On Python 3.6 systems lacking either of these terminals, using the
+   install.py script will upgrade pyzmq. Alternatively, the following command
+   will upgrade pyzmq:
+
+   /usr/bin/python3 -m pip install -U --user --disable-pip-version-check pyzmq
+
+