Duncan Webb wrote: > Hello all freevoers, > > _Another_ short announcement that the new releases of Freevo-1.7.7 and > Freevo-1.8.0 are available for downloading from sourceforge.net, > http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=46652 > > In this release, again both the Freevo-1.7 series and the first of the > Freevo-1.8 there have been quite a large number of changes. From release > 1.7.6.1 to 1.7.7 there have are 188 new items and 205 changes. From > release 1.8.0rc2 to 1.8.0 there have are 113 new items and 195 changes. > > The goal to make release 1.8.0 was to remove the Twisted XML-RPC > interface from the TV recording modules and replace it with kaa.rpc. The > effect of this seems to be that the TV part of Freevo is faster. You > will need kaa.base-0.4.0 which, at the moment, has not been released but > is available from the Subversion repository. > > Included in the 1.8.0 release are some RELEASE_NOTES, *do* read them if > you are planning to migrate to the 1.8 series. > > What's new, well here are a selection: > - atlantice skin from CinPoU > - Polish translation from Grzegorz Patron > - Record while watching (IVTV TV cards) from Richard van Paasen > - UPD remote for those of you with a PDA from Andreas Fürtig > - DVDcopy to make DVD images on your hard disk from Adam Charrett > - Florian Demmer has fixed makelircrc to allow includes > - Douglas A. Seifert has fixed cd-backup to record play lists > - Pierre Ossman who has given us placement support for xrandr > > There is a lot of changes from lots of people and the full list is > available at http://doc.freevo.org/ChangeLog. > > A real big thanks to everyone who has contributed to the development of > the Freevo 1 series. And all of you who have used Freevo. > > The poll is still open for you comments on where Freevo should improve: > http://www.doodle.ch/participation.html?pollId=yp6maagr5kgagkk5 > > Have fun and happy Easter > Duncan > Looks like this will be a significant release. I missed a chance to submit a patch for the geexbox skin though. Next time maybe a couple of days notice that you're about to release a new version would allow anyone with minor last minute patches to submit them? Now I'm off to have a play around with 1.8.0 - then update the website ;)
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