Hello all Freevoers, Rather than forget or run out of time to do this announcement on the release day of freevo-1.8.4, planned for 26 May 2009, I will do the announcement now so that you know what is coming up.
IMPORTANT ========= Most of the translations will need an update as some of the changes to translatable strings will have broken existing translations. The release is basically ready to be shipped and the current subversion revision is available by checking out a copy with: svn co svn://svn.freevo.org/freevo/tags/REL-1_8_4/freevo freevo-1.8.4 So if you have some time between now and the release date please do a bit of testing so that the release is as stable as possible. If you like my was of providing a release candidate. CONTRIBUTIONS ============= Thanks to you all who have contributed by sending in patches, testing, reporting problems, updating the translations and keeping the wiki up-to-date. Special thanks goes to Adam Charrett for all his work on the user interface, video overlays and his dvbstreamer. Also thanks to: Ian Denton for Icecast and Shoutcast audio plug-ins Jesper Smith for the torrent plug-in Helmut Auer for various fixes and updating the German translation Pascal Schirrmann for ivtv audio levels and the French translation Andrea Mennucc for the encoding server changes Belated thanks, as I didn't write a full announcement for 1.8.3 to: Juan Pablo Soto for some you-tube patches Alberto González RodrĂguez for wikisubtitles video plug-in Everyone who I have forgotten. I do hope that nobody has been discouraged to add their bits and pieces to freevo, sometimes a submitted patch breaks something else and so it gets rejected. Nothing personal just that the days are not long enough! ;-) CHANGES ======= For some people the most important change is that Python-2.4 is no longer supported whereas Python-2.6 is now supported. The kaa interface has changed so that the latest svn version of kaa is required until the new kaa packages are released. kaa.display is now required for the latest video overlays. The command line syntax has changed, see freevo --help for the details. DETAILED CHANGES ================ Here is a list of changes since 1.8.3; these are listed in the order that Araxis Merge finds the differences. - The busy icon has got a bit of animation - Some new graphics for albumtree - A new OSD dialogue designer - Some fixes to the skins, audio date and number of video items - A large revision of mplayervis, works much better between tracks and the visualization can be scaled up so that it will work on low-powered machines or a HD resolution. - Caching has a new crop-detection option what updated the fxd files - All the helpers now use optparse for command line processing - New images for command.fxd files - Weather plug-in oneclick should now get the radar maps - New TV categories now has a plug-in to select by category - ivtv_xine_tv plug-in has had some major changes - recordings_manager has also some significant changes - TV channels has had some fixes for numeric channels - The dependency of PyXML has now gone - The audio container for dvdbackup can now be selected - The core modules have also major updates The full list of changes, that were added to the trackers, is available here: http://doc.freevo.org/ChangeLog Cheers, Duncan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ Freevo-devel mailing list Freevo-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-devel
