banshee r4580 - trunk/banshee



Author: gburt
Date: Mon Sep 22 18:46:36 2008
New Revision: 4580
URL: http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/banshee?rev=4580&view=rev

Log:
update for 1.3.1

Modified:
   trunk/banshee/NEWS

Modified: trunk/banshee/NEWS
==============================================================================
--- trunk/banshee/NEWS	(original)
+++ trunk/banshee/NEWS	Mon Sep 22 18:46:36 2008
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 ===============================================================================
-WELCOME TO BANSHEE 1.3.0 - Released September 11, 2008
+WELCOME TO BANSHEE 1.3.1 - Released September 22, 2008
 ===============================================================================
 
   * Banshee is a multimedia management and playback application for GNOME.
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
     experience automatic cover art fetching as you listen; and easily browse,
     search, and control your media collection."
 
-  * Learn More: http://banshee-project.org/download/archives/1.3.0/
+  * Learn More: http://banshee-project.org/download/archives/1.3.1/
 
   * UNSTABLE RELEASE: This release is from the 1.3.x development series, and
     works towards a future 1.4.0 stable release. Certain features may be
@@ -21,56 +21,32 @@
 NEW AWESOME FEATURES AND ENHANCEMENTS
 ===============================================================================
 
-    Banshee 1.3.0 is the first release in the new development series leading
+    Banshee 1.3.1 is the second release in the new development series leading
     up to a future 1.4.0 stable release.
 
-    Major new features for this release:
+    Notable new features:
 
-      * Vastly improved portable media player support:
-        - Real media player synchronization is now supported, along with the
-          classic ability to manually manage portable media players
-        - Playlists and Smart Playlists can now be saved to media players
-        - Cover art now syncs to USB mass storage devices
+      * Freshly revamped track metadata editor
 
-      * Library rescanning - Banshee can now detect newly added, removed,
-        and relocated files and update its collection
+      * Break the columns context menu into multiple columns
 
-      * Option to rename files and folders when metadata changes
-
-      * Collection indexer service and DBus API - allows third party
-        applications like GNOME Do, Beagle, and Tangerine to create their
-        own queryable indexes of Banshee's collection, or query Banshee's
-        collection in real time
-
-      * Flat-file playlists can now be opened from the command line/nautilus
-
-      * Podcasting improvements
-
-      * New flashy Now Playing UI for displaying cover art
-
-      * ReplayGain support
-
-      * Improved album and podcast browser speed
-
-      * Offline mode - control whether Banshee is able to access the Web
-        for extra metadata and other features
-
-      * Banshee will now ask if it should be the default media player
-
-      * Support for BPM, Grouping, BitRate, Conductor, DiscCount, and
-        IsCompilation reading, writing, columns, and searching.
+      * Column widths should be much more reasonable
+          - Sensible width ranges set for time, dates, year, etc
+          - Some shorter labels used in column headers
 
     Notable bug fixes:
 
-      * Drag and Drop to Nautilus works again (BGO #535128) 
-      * Improved support for dark themes (BGO #544840)
-      * Improved ASX support (BGO #545646)
-      * Fix performance bug with loading USB Mass Storage DAPs (BGO #548254)
-      * Fix bug with the DAP usage bar being filtered (BGO #537366)
-      * Fix performance issue with album and podcast browsers (BGO #547628)
-      * Fix lots of threading/freezing issues
-      * Fix lots of avoidable crashes
-      * 64 bugs were closed since 1.2.1
+      * Remember sorting per source (BGO #524656)
+      * Audio CD crasher (BGO #)
+      * Dialogs' translation domain properly set (BGO #536268)
+      * Fix recent regression where the ListView scrolled to the 
+        top when you switched sources.
+      * Allow shrinking selections with shift-click (BGO #535561)
+      * Fix issue with it taking two clicks on the notification icon to
+        get the main window visible, if Banshee was minimized (BGO #551916)
+      * Don't give UI indication that the track list is sortable unless
+        it really is (BGO #551969)
+      * 42 bugs were closed since 1.3.0
 
 
 ===============================================================================
@@ -80,9 +56,9 @@
 Sources
 -------
 
-    * Banshee 1.3.0 Tarballs:
-      http://download.banshee-project.org/banshee/banshee-1-1.3.0.tar.bz2
-      http://download.banshee-project.org/banshee/banshee-1-1.3.0.tar.gz
+    * Banshee 1.3.1 Tarballs:
+      http://download.banshee-project.org/banshee/banshee-1-1.3.1.tar.bz2
+      http://download.banshee-project.org/banshee/banshee-1-1.3.1.tar.gz
 
 Packages
 --------
@@ -95,8 +71,8 @@
 ChangeLogs & Checksums
 ----------------------
 
-    * http://download.banshee-project.org/banshee/banshee-1-1.3.0.changes
-    * http://download.banshee-project.org/banshee/banshee-1-1.3.0.sha1sum
+    * http://download.banshee-project.org/banshee/banshee-1-1.3.1.changes
+    * http://download.banshee-project.org/banshee/banshee-1-1.3.1.sha1sum
 
 
 ===============================================================================
@@ -148,7 +124,7 @@
     If you encounter any bad behavior with this release, please do not
     hesitate to file bugs!
 
-    * http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=banshee&version=1.3.0
+    * http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=banshee&version=1.3.1
 
 
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