On behalf of the entire Rivendell development team, I'm pleased to announce the availability of the second release candidate of the next major version of Rivendell, 3.x. Rivendell is a full-featured radio automation system targeted for use in professional broadcast environments. It is available under the GNU General Public License version 2.
MAJOR CHANGES FROM v2.x ----------------------- Unicode Support. Unicode/UTF-8 clean, with full support for characters in both the Basic Multilingual and Supplemental Planes. Qt Toolkit Upgrade. Built upon Qt4, rather than Qt3. Scalability Improvements. Engineered to support installations with hundreds or more active play-out logs. PAD System Upgrades. PAD (Now & Next) processing done by means of PyPAD, utilizing user customizable Python 3 scripts. Also fully Unicode/UTF-8 clean. Realtime Status Updates. Changes in Rivendell objects (carts, logs, etc) communicated and displayed instantly on other hosts with no need for manual refreshing. And many more... GETTING AND TRYING THE RELEASE CANDIDATE ---------------------------------------- Full source code for this release is available at: https://github.com/ElvishArtisan/rivendell/releases/tag/v3.0.0rc01 Be sure to throughly read and understand the 'INSTALL' and 'UPGRADING' files in the root of the source tree, as they contain important information about changes between previous major Rivendell versions and v3.x. An upgradable CentOS 7 online installer is also available. This is the quickest and easiest way actually to try this release for yourself. Instructions can be found at: http://static.paravelsystems.com/rivendell-install-rd3/rivendell-install-rhel7.html If you already have an installation running one of the earlier Rivendell 3 BETA or Release Candidates, you can upgrade it to this release by doing (as root): yum update rivendell IF YOU FIND A PROBLEM --------------------- If you run across a problem, please submit a detailed problem report at: https://github.com/ElvishArtisan/rivendell/issues Be sure to mention the version of Rivendell [v3.0.0rc01] in your report. Cheers! |---------------------------------------------------------------------| | Frederick F. Gleason, Jr. | Chief Developer | | | Paravel Systems | |---------------------------------------------------------------------| | All progress is based upon a universal innate desire of every | | organism to live beyond its income. | | | | -- Samuel Butler | | "Notebooks" | |---------------------------------------------------------------------| _______________________________________________ Rivendell-dev mailing list Rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org http://caspian.paravelsystems.com/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev