It's unfortunate there are no dates on the 0.9.7.x and prior Changelogs—they were all posted on 12/04/2007. I'm not sure, but I doubt there were many public releases prior to 0.9.7.x—released via
this site. I think it was started only about six months before. In other words, there may not be anything more nostra would want to make available.
Maybe nostra will comment on the early days of the program—for those of us interested in it's history. He has said, "I have written this program because
I could not find anything on the Web that would suit all my needs to catalogue my video collection." From that, we might assume it unlikely development started before 1995. I've always assumed it began in 2007, but maybe it was earlier.