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+  <title>What's brewing in the future releases?</title>
+  <date>July 5th, 2010</date>
+  <fullstory>
+    <p>
+      A lot. We are in the proccess of building a moon phase almanac
+      feature that quickly lets you see the moon phases this month, so
+      that you can easily see when you can go observing. We are also
+      going to build a feature that will make beginners' KStars
+      experience better.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      In the next release, you can expect to see a better managed
+      object database, thanks to Victor Carbune's Google Summer of
+      Code work, which will put our data into a relational database
+      and give you access to perform powerful searches.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      We are also in the process of getting KStars to use OpenGL for
+      painting, which will make a lot of very aesthetic graphical
+      effects possible! Harry de Valence, KStars' Google Summer of
+      Code student from Canada is working on this project and has
+      already obtained some success in painting using the OpenGL
+      libraries.
+    </p>
+  </fullstory>
+</item>
+
+<item>
+  <title>KStars at Akademy 2010</title>
+  <date>July 4th, 2010</date>
+  <fullstory>
+    KStars contributor Akarsh Simha gave a short demo of KStars at
+    Akademy 2010, the annual conference of the KDE community. Three
+    KStars developers are at Akademy 2010, and they've been talking to
+    a lot of people around to get ideas!
+  </fullstory>
+</item>
+
+<item>
+  <title>KStars is now an awesome observation planner!</title>
+  <date>February 9th, 2010</date>
+  <fullstory>
+    <p>
+      With the KDE 4.4 SC, Prakash Mohan's GSoC work has been released
+      in KStars. KStars now has an awesome observation planner to plan
+      your observation sessions. KStars can also execute your
+      observation session by loading a session and hitting Ctrl + 2,
+      but that feature is going to improve more in the future.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Whenever you wish to see an object, you can add it to your
+      observation wishlist. This can be done by right clicking on the
+      object in the context menu. Once the object is added to your
+      wishlist, you may transfer the objects visible on a particular
+      night into the observation session planner, and KStars will
+      automatically suggest observation times (looking at
+      culmination). You can also download images for the objects from
+      DSS / SDSS with a click of a button, and if you don't find an
+      image appealing for comparison with your observations, you can
+      always replace it by searching the internet for another
+      image. Even if you don't have an internet connection at the
+      location where you observe, you can always cache these images
+      on your harddisk and take your laptop to your observing venue!
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The execute session option allows you to log information about
+      objects as you observe them. Alternately, you may also write a
+      short log in the session planner itself.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      We wish you a lot of fun planning your observations with KStars!
+    </p>
+  </fullstory>
+</item>
+
+<item>
 	<title>KStars-1.5 released</title>
 	<date>January 29th, 2009</date>
 	<fullstory>