[Banshee-List] Banshee 0.9.11

[Aaron Bockover <abockover novell com>]

Banshee 0.9.11 is Ready.

Please do not hesitate to file bugs against Banshee in GNOME Bugzilla
(http://bugzilla.gnome.org, component: banshee), or discuss Banshee on
this list or in #banshee on irc.gnome.org. The Banshee Wiki, open to
everyone for viewing and editing is located at
http://banshee-project.org.


NEW FEATURES
------------

 - CD Writing is much improved, uses integrated progress reporting like
other major features (importing, etc)
 - Nomenclature for CD Importing/Ripping changed to "Import"; for
Burning/Writing to "Write"
 - Many areas that may have resulted in an exit on exception are now
handled better, so Banshee can continue when errors are encounted (for
instance, HAL not working for the Audio CD layer)
 - Better UI for selecting the library location in preferences, uses the
GTK FileChooserButton
 - Brazilian Portuguese translation provided by Marco Carvalho (pt_BR)
 - Dialog for viewing the log (CTRL+SHIFT+L), or from the View menu
 - New logging core support


FIXES AND OPTIMIZATIONS
-----------------------

 - File with non-ASCII characters should now be imported properly, this
was due to differences between the way Gnome-VFS and System.Uri
represent character encoding in file URIs (the other half of this fix is
in mono itself, in Mono.Data.SqliteClient)
 - iPod syncing should be much better, there is still a small, but
sometimes crashing issue regarding the drawing of the TreeView


THE IMPORTANT LINKS
-------------------

Release Overview Page:
http://banshee-project.org/Releases/0.9.11

Banshee 0.9.11 Tarball:
http://banshee-project.org/files/banshee/banshee-0.9.11.tar.gz

ipod-sharp 0.5.10 Tarball:
http://banshee-project.org/files/ipod-sharp/ipod-sharp-0.5.10.tar.gz

libipoddevice 0.3.5 Tarball:
http://banshee-project.org/files/libipoddevice/libipoddevice-0.3.5.tar.gz

Banshee Wiki: 
http://banshee-project.org/


DEPENDENCIES
------------

- Mono 1.1.9.2 and full stack
- ipod-sharp 0.5.10; in turn requires libipoddevice 0.3.5
- gtk-sharp-2.0 (2.3.91)
- sqlite3
- GStreamer 0.8.11
- libmusicbrainz 2.1.1 or better
- libnautilus-burn 2.12
- GTK+ 2.6 or better
- HAL 0.5.2 or better


NOTES
-----

- New versions of Banshee will be released every Thursday. Releases with
an odd micro version number, are to be considered essentially CVS
snapshots. Even micro version numbers will be considered more stable,
and are subject to more testing than odd micro version numbers.

- To distributors: due to a bug in the Mono 1.1.8.x mcs compiler,
Banshee code will not compile. Attempting to do so will result in the
compiler crashing. Mono 1.1.9.2 must be used to build Banshee. However,
the resulting assembly will execute just fine on the 1.1.8.x
corlib/runtime. This means that Banshee can be built with 1.1.9.2 and
run on 1.1.8.x. For distributions that cannot upgrade the compiler, the
bare 1.1.9.2 compiler assembly has been bundled with banshee for now. To
build using the bundled compiler, simply pass --with-internal-mcs to
configure.

- Bindings to the VLC libraries have been implemented and are available
as a Banshee Media Engine. To use the VLC engine, pass --enable-vlc to
configure. Additionally, libvlc.so must be copied to
banshee/mediaengines/vlc before running "make install". To build
libvlc.so, download and build Jon Lech Johansen's snd123:

http://nanocrew.net/2005/09/20/snd123/

Copy the resulting libvlc.so to the aforementioned build directory, and
proceed with building Banshee as normal. Keep in mind, VLC support is
optional. Banshee also supports GStreamer and Helix engines. GStreamer
is required, and Helix is optional, but will be automatically detected
and configured if your system is set up properly with either RealPlayer
or Helix Player. See http://helixcommunity.org/