* 1.2.8: Updated libtool support to libtool 1.5.8 * 1.2.8: Fixed problem compiling without nasm with new versions of gcc * 1.2.8: Check for malloc() returning NULL in a few places * 1.2.8: Added 4/6 channel surround sound support on ALSA (not 3D audio) * 1.2.8: Added SDL_FB_BROKEN_MODES environment variable * 1.2.8: Fixed memory corruption when allocating large surfaces (fails now) * 1.2.8: Show correct joystick names on Windows (thanks Eckhard!) * 1.2.8: Added a CoreAudio driver for MacOS X (thanks Max!) * 1.2.8: Added support for right handed modifier keys on Panther (thanks Eric!) * 1.2.8: Finally fixed OpenGL coordinate inversion on MacOS X (thanks Eric!) * 1.2.8: Worked around a crash in aRts audio detection (thanks Yves!) * 1.2.8: Lots more Atari video fixes (thanks Patrice!) * 1.2.8: Allow UTF-8 strings in X11 window captions * 1.2.8: Fixed basic type collision on Tru64 (thanks Hayashi!) * 1.2.8: Improved keyboard and mouse handling on BeOS (thanks Marcin!) * 1.2.8: Added missing window manager and OpenGL functions on BeOS * 1.2.8: Fixed resuming CD-ROM playback on Windows (thanks Andreas!) * 1.2.8: Fixed compiling on IRIX 5.3 * 1.2.8: Fixed crash if software stretch is used on hardware surfaces * 1.2.8: Fixed crash on exit in framebuffer console driver * 1.2.8: Added support for logical joysticks on Linux * 1.2.8: Added OpenGL accum buffer support on MacOS X (thanks Christian!) * 1.2.8: Fixed pixmap leak in X11 cursor code (thanks Paul!) * 1.2.8: Fixed compilation problems with newer versions of gcc * 1.2.8: Updated QNX support for QNX6 (thanks Mike!) * 1.2.8: Fixed testdyngl crash on Windows (thanks Damien!) Changes for Fri Apr 23: * 1.2.8: Compile most of the blitter assembly on Opteron * 1.2.8: Compile CPU detection code on Opteron * 1.2.8: Fixed floating point exception with Linux 2.6 joysticks * 1.2.8: Fixed toggling SDL_NOFRAME on X11 video modes * 1.2.8: Fixed loading ESD and aRts function pointers * 1.2.8: IRIX uses libGL.so, not libGL.so.1 * 1.2.8: Fixed typo in fatal signal handling code * 1.2.8: Fix potential deadlock in MacOS X joystick code * 1.2.8: Build FSAA code on all versions of MacOS X (thanks tigital!) * 1.2.8: Avoid using kernel headers for byte swapping macros
I don't know if this solves some if the issues we all have been having, but it looks like a start.

I thought the next version of SDL was going to be 2.0? Well the number doesn't matter I guess, what matters is that there's a new version coming. :) I'm looking forward to it.