merged backend integration changes from official branch

AUTHORS

diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
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@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@
 Copyright (C) 2008-2010 Nathan Hjelm <hjelmn@users.sourceforge.net>
 Copyright (C) 2009-2010 Pete Batard <pbatard@gmail.com>
 Copyright (C) 2010 Michael Plante <michael.plante@gmail.com>
-Copyright (C) 2010 Peter Stuge <peter@stuge.se>
 
 Other contributors:
 Alex Vatchenko
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 David Engraf
 David Moore
 Felipe Balbi
+Francesco Montorsi
 Hans Ulrich Niedermann
 Hoi-Ho Chan
+Hoi-Ho Chan
 Ludovic Rousseau
 Martin Koegler
 Mikhail Gusarov
+Peter Stuge
 Rob Walker
 Toby Peterson
 Vasily Khoruzhick