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* Bump up versions for 1.2

 
 
 About this SDK
 ==============
 
-This is version 1.1b of the Vamp plugin Software Development Kit.
+This is version 1.2 of the Vamp plugin Software Development Kit.
 Plugins and hosts built with this SDK are binary compatible with those
 built using version 1.0 of the SDK.
 
 This SDK contains the following:
 

 library versioning schemes on some platforms.]
 
  * vamp-sdk/hostext
 
 Additional C++ classes to make a host's life easier (introduced in
-version 1.1 of the Vamp SDK).
+versions 1.1 and 1.2 of the Vamp SDK).
 
 Vamp::HostExt::PluginLoader provides a very easy interface for a host
 to discover, load, and find out category information about the
 available plugins.  Most "casual" Vamp hosts will probably want to use
 this class.

 
 Vamp::HostExt::PluginChannelAdapter provides a means for hosts to use
 plugins that do not necessarily support the same number of audio
 channels as they have available, without having to worry about
 applying a channel management / mixdown policy themselves.
+
+Vamp::HostExt::PluginBufferingAdapter provides a means for hosts to
+avoid having to negotiate the input step and block size, instead
+permitting the host to use any block size they desire (and a step size
+equal to it).  This is particularly useful for "streaming" hosts that
+cannot seek backwards in the input audio stream and so would otherwise
+need to implement an additional buffer to support step sizes smaller
+than the block size.
 
 The PluginLoader class can also use the input domain and channel
 adapters automatically to make the entire conversion process
 transparent to the host if required.