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+Upstream sound like they might disable JACK support in the next release,
+because it "has never really been tested [...] anyway" and because of the
+PA v19 problems since 1.3.4-beta.
+
+A fix for the ALSA regressions since 1.3.3-beta is still uncertain, since
+the OSS support in PA v19 is considered a backup solution for any users
+which encounter problems.
+
+-----
 Audacity 1.3.4-beta release : unchanged behaviour compared with
 previous comment. Fedora 7+8.