Re: [Banshee-List] ANNOUNCE: Banshee 0.11.3
- From: Mike Urbanski <urbanskm msoe edu>
- To: banshee-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: [Banshee-List] ANNOUNCE: Banshee 0.11.3
- Date: Sat, 09 Dec 2006 03:15:01 -0600
Forget the release, this is the most enthusiastic / exciting release
note I've seen in years...
Please don't forget the release,
~Mike
On Sat, 2006-12-09 at 04:06 -0500, Aaron Bockover wrote:
> ===============================================================================
> BANSHEE 0.11.3 IS THE ONE FOR YOU
> ===============================================================================
>
> * What? Banshee is a music management and playback application for GNOME.
> * Really? Yes!
>
> "Import, organize, play, and share your music using Banshee's simple,
> powerful interface. Rip CDs, play and sync your iPod, create playlists,
> and burn audio CDs. Most portable music devices are supported. Banshee
> also has support for podcasting, smart playlists, music recommendations,
> and much more."
>
> * Learn More: http://banshee-project.org/Discover
> * Release Overview Page: http://banshee-project.org/Releases/0.11.3
>
>
> ===============================================================================
> TABLE OF CONTENTS
> ===============================================================================
>
> * Welcome
> * Module Notes
> * Get The Goods
> - Sources
> - ChangeLogs
> - Dependencies
> * Major Feature/Fixes/Performance Updates
> - Cool New Features
> - The Most Important Bad-Bug Fixes
> - Performance Improvements
> - Choose a Lingua!
> - For all the Awesome Banshee Developers
> * Bugzilla Overview
> - Noteworthy bugs fixes/enhancements embraced in this release
> - Other minor/uninteresting bugs fixed in this release
> - Show all bugs marked FIXED during this release cycle
> - File Bugs... Be Proactive... Contribute to Open Source!
> * Miscellaneous
> - Contributors for this release
> - Something to share with friends and family
> - Thanks!
>
>
> ===============================================================================
> MODULE NOTES
> ===============================================================================
>
> * Banshee is now made up of the core module, banshee, and the official
> plugins module, banshee-official-plugins
>
> * banshee-official-plugins is recommended, but not required to run Banshee
>
> * libipoddevice (0.5.2) and ipod-sharp (0.6.2) are required for iPod support
>
> * helix-dbus-server (0.3.0) is required for Helix/RealPlayer integration
>
>
> ===============================================================================
> GET THE GOODS
> ===============================================================================
>
> Sources
> -------
>
> * Banshee 0.11.3 Tarball:
> http://banshee-project.org/files/banshee/banshee-0.11.3.tar.gz
>
> * Banshee Official Plugins 0.11.3 Tarball
> http://banshee-project.org/files/banshee-official-plugins/banshee-official-plugins-0.11.3.tar.gz
>
> * ipod-sharp 0.6.2 Tarball:
> http://banshee-project.org/files/ipod-sharp/ipod-sharp-0.6.2.tar.gz
>
> * libipoddevice 0.5.2 Tarball:
> http://banshee-project.org/files/libipoddevice/libipoddevice-0.5.2.tar.gz
>
> * njb-sharp 0.3.0 Tarball:
> http://banshee-project.org/files/njb-sharp/njb-sharp-0.3.0.tar.gz
>
> * helix-dbus-server 0.3.0 Tarball:
> http://banshee-project.org/files/helix-dbus-server/helix-dbus-server-0.3.0.tar.gz
>
> ChangeLogs
> ----------
>
> * http://banshee-project.org/files/banshee/banshee-0.11.3.changes
> * http://banshee-project.org/files/banshee-official-plugins/banshee-official-plugins-0.11.3.changes
>
> Dependencies
> ------------
>
> * Mono 1.1.10 and full stack
> * gtk-sharp-2.0 2.8 or 2.10
> * GStreamer 0.10.3
> * sqlite3
> * libmusicbrainz 2.1.1 or better
> * libnautilus-burn 2.12 or better
> * GTK+ 2.8 or better
> * HAL 0.5.2 or better (0.5.6+ Recommended)
>
>
> ===============================================================================
> MAJOR FEATURE/FIXES/PERFORMANCE UPDATES
> ===============================================================================
>
> Cool New Features
> -----------------
>
> * Much improved sorting! Sorting by track number now properly sorts first
> by artist, album, then track number. Sort settings are done now at the
> source level, not the global level, so different sorts can be applied
> on different sources independently. Sort settings are also saved (persist
> across instances) for the library and playlists. Nat Friedman is "a man of
> few wants." (Aaron Bockover)
>
> * Search works similarly now - each source can have its own filter.
> No longer is it shared between all sources. (Aaron Bockover)
>
> * Set preferred library structure in preferences dialog, which allows
> for the selection of folder and filename patterns. (Aaron Bockover)
>
> * Initial support for Rio Karma DAP devices. (Experimental, Bob Copeland)
>
> * Do not stop playback on an error or report error in a dialog. Disable
> the problematic track instead and continue playing. (Aaron Bockover)
>
> * Added a "Close" (CTRL+W) option above "Quit". Close hides to
> the tray. (Aaron Bockover)
>
> * Show a lock icon on password protected DAAP sources. (Aaron Bockover)
>
> * Improved DAAP connection status and error reporting UI. (Aaron Bockover)
>
> * A confirmation dialog will now be presented when a playlist is to be
> deleted to help prevent accidental data loss. It has a "do not ask me
> again" check box if you find such a prompt annoying. (Aaron Bockover)
>
> * It is now possible to copy songs directly from Banshee to Nautilus using
> the edit+copy menu item, accelerator, or context menu item. This has always
> been possible with drag and drop, but some prefer CTRL+C. (Aaron Bockover)
>
> * Updated artwork: two excellent new icons for static and smart playlists,
> a perfected 32px application icon, and a new splash screen. (Jakub Steiner)
>
> * Error correction option (paranoia mode) for CD importing.
> (Christopher James Halse Rogers)
>
> * The audio output sync is now configured for the "Music and
> Movies" profile. (Aaron Bockover)
>
> * Added a --no-source-change command line argument that will prevent
> the active source from changing when Banshee is launched with --dap or
> --audio-cd and an instance was already running. Add --no-source-change
> to your GNOME Volume Manager Banshee commands if you don't agree with our
> default behavior of changing sources when a device or disc becomes present
> in the system. (Aaron Bockover)
>
> * Improved podcasting support, including certificate support (Nathan Palmer,
> Mike Urbanski). Better support for enclosures, lots of minor UI polish.
> (Mike Urbanski, Aaron Bockover) [Banshee Official Plugins]
>
> * UI improvements to Mini Mode plugin (Michael Monreal)
> [Banshee Official Plugins]
>
> The Most Important Bad-Bug Fixes
> --------------------------------
>
> * Lots of fixes regarding iPod detection, mass storage syncing, and managed
> DBus/HAL. This should solve all the issues in previous releases regarding
> iPod detection. It requires HAL volumes for the iPod to have a
> volume.fsusage=filesystem property. If this is not the case, it's a
> distro issue. (Aaron Bockover, Alp Toker, Gabriel Burt, David Zeuthen)
>
> * Locale/culture fixes regarding number formatting when parsing audio profile
> pipelines. Fixed bitrate issue with faac profile. (Aaron Bockover)
>
> * Fix some crashes coming from the podcast plugin (Mike Urbanski)
>
> Performance Improvements
> ------------------------
>
> * Newly-imported tracks handled in batches, greatly improving import time;
> many very large optimizations in taglib-sharp that also improve import
> time. Import time has gone down from 10 minutes to almost 2.5 minutes
> on a T60p with a 5200 song library. (Aaron Bockover)
>
> * Massive performance improvement regarding switching sources. Time is
> down from 1 minute to under 1 second in some extreme cases. (Gabriel Burt)
>
> * Assembly reflection performance improvements. (saves memory, small
> amount of startup time - Aaron Bockover)
>
> * Lots of good performance and functionality improvements to smart
> playlists. (Gabriel Burt)
>
> Choose a Lingua!
> ----------------
>
> New translations for this release:
>
> * Arabic (Khaled Hosny)
>
> Updated translations for this release:
>
> * Catalan (Jordi Mas)
> * Czech (Jakub Friedl)
> * Finnish (Ilkka Tuohela)
> * Hungarian (Gabor Kelemen)
> * Lithuanian (Žygimantas Beručka)
> * Norwegian bokmål (Kjartan Maraas)
> * Russian (Alexandre Prokoudine)
> * Swedish (Daniel Nylander)
> * Spanish (Francisco Javier F. Serrador)
>
> For all the Awesome Banshee Developers
> --------------------------------------
>
> * Boo scripting support; scripts can provide a static entry point or use
> the standard Banshee plugin API, but no compilation is necessary. Scripts
> must be placed in in ~/.gnome2/banshee/scripts. (Aaron Bockover)
>
> * Lots of work on the Boo shell integration for live debugging and testing.
> Reflection-based live debugging was started, lots to add here.
> (Aaron Bockover)
>
> * New icon-theme-installer script that can be used from within make
> to properly install lots of icons into the theme and also update the
> icon cache. See build/icon-theme-installer for details (other project
> developers may like this!) (Aaron Bockover)
>
> * Run uninstalled with full plugin and DAP support. "make run" from the
> top source directory (seriously, just build and run - no installation is
> necessary) (Aaron Bockover)
>
> * Much much much cleaner configure.ac. Lots of isolated and reusable
> macros replacing spaghetti autoconf+bash. Generic detection and
> configuration done through reusable Shamrock [1] m4 macros. For instance,
> this is as hard as it gets to setup an autotools environment for
> Mono with Shamrock:
>
> dnl Mono and gmcs
> SHAMROCK_CHECK_MONO_MODULE(1.1.10)
> SHAMROCK_FIND_MONO_2_0_COMPILER
> SHAMROCK_FIND_MONO_RUNTIME
> SHAMROCK_CHECK_MONO_2_0_GAC_ASSEMBLIES([
> System.Data
> System.Web
> System.Web.Services
> Mono.Cairo
> Mono.Data.SqliteClient
> Mono.Posix
> ])
>
> [1] Shamrock is a set of m4 macros for properly doing common and useful
> stuff in a configure.ac. It's focused on making Mono+autotools
> integration easy, and is part of the Banshee project. Feel free to
> use the macros in any project. See build/m4/shamrock. (Aaron Bockover)
>
>
> ===============================================================================
> BUGZILLA OVERVIEW
> ===============================================================================
>
> Noteworthy bugs fixes/enhancements embraced in this release
> -----------------------------------------------------------
>
> * 314149 - Properly sort on track number (artist->album->track number)
> * 353125 - Make sort settings apply to each source, not globally
> * 345218 - Make filter/search settings apply to each source, not globally
> * 340222 - Do not stop playback due to error; disable problematic track
> * 348730 - Initial support for Rio Karma devices
> * 344542 - Allow copying songs for pasting in nautilus (edit->copy)
> * 365200 - Added an error correction option for CD importing
> * 325968 - Massive performance improvement when switching sources and sorting
> * 363066 - Add sane update rate limiting to smart playlists
> * 321773 - Fixed themeing/style issue with the search entry
> * 361534 - Only show track change notifications if not focused
> * 360466 - Confirm dialog for playlist deletions
> * 345476 - Add --no-source-change argument; supplements --dap, --audio-cd
> * 375992 - Ensure user data directory for plugins exists
> * 345620 - Prevent dragging tracks from within same source on the source view
> * 355880 - Reworded the 'import' text for the mass storage DAP track loader
> * 355890 - Ignore iPods in the mass storage DAP to avoid confusion
>
> Other minor/uninteresting bugs fixed in this release
> ----------------------------------------------------
>
> 383844, 344833, 362994, 375146, 379119, 379529,
> 369786, 376070, 375890, 372720, 368436, 354389
>
> Show all bugs marked FIXED during this release cycle [1]
> --------------------------------------------------------
>
> * http://banshee-project.org/files/closedbugs.php/2006-10-24,2006-12-09
>
> [1] 28 bugs were actually addressed during the 0.11.3 development cycle,
> but many more were verified and resolved that were actually fixed
> in previous releases.
>
> File Bugs... Be Proactive... Contribute to Open Source!
> -------------------------------------------------------
>
> * Please do not hesitate to file bugs against Banshee in GNOME Bugzilla.
> * http://bugzilla.gnome.org, component: banshee
> * Discuss Banshee on the mailing list list or in #banshee on irc.gnome.org.
> * Lots of information on the Banshee Wiki: http://banshee-project.org
> * Need to debug Banshee? http://banshee-project.org/Debugging
>
>
> ===============================================================================
> MISCELLANEOUS
> ===============================================================================
>
> Contributors for this release
> -----------------------------
>
> Community makes Open Source work!
>
> Aaron Bockover, Alexandros Frantzis, Alp Toker, Bertrand Lorentz,
> Bob Copeland, Christopher James Halse Rogers, Gabriel Burt,
> Jakub Steiner, James Willcox, Michael Monreal, Mike Urbanski,
> Nathan Palmer, Patrick van Staveren, Ruben Vermeersch,
> Sebastian Dröge, Scott Peterson, Tim Yamin
>
> Something to share with friends and family
> ------------------------------------------
>
> "Changes recorded for Banshee from 0.11.2 (October 23, 2006) to 0.11.3
> (December 8, 2006) account for 7 percent of the entire ChangeLog file."
>
> "The first ChangeLog entry was recorded on February 17, 2005, marking the
> 0.1 release of Banshee - at the time called Sonance. 0.2 was released
> quickly the following day."
>
> Thanks!
> -------
>
> Enjoy the release! We appreciate your support and involvement!
>
>
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