[banshee] Update NEWS in prep for release
- From: Gabriel Burt <gburt src gnome org>
- To: commits-list gnome org
- Cc:
- Subject: [banshee] Update NEWS in prep for release
- Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2010 17:40:59 +0000 (UTC)
commit c536e7ce7bab8edc5e6e1b874a7c515ab601e9eb
Author: Gabriel Burt <gabriel burt gmail com>
Date: Sat Mar 20 10:40:49 2010 -0700
Update NEWS in prep for release
NEWS | 89 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------------------------
1 files changed, 39 insertions(+), 50 deletions(-)
---
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index df5d66e..710922c 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
===============================================================================
-WELCOME TO BANSHEE 1.5.5 - Released March 10, 2010
+WELCOME TO BANSHEE 1.5.6 - Released March 20, 2010
===============================================================================
* Banshee is a multimedia management and playback application for GNOME.
@@ -10,56 +10,45 @@ WELCOME TO BANSHEE 1.5.5 - Released March 10, 2010
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/1.5.5
+ * Learn More: http://banshee-project.org/download/archives/1.5.6
===============================================================================
NEW AWESOME FEATURES AND ENHANCEMENTS
===============================================================================
- Banshee 1.5.5 is mostly a bug fix release, with a few enhancements. This
- release marks the start of our string freeze in preparation for 1.6.
-
- New Features:
-
- * Gapless Playback / Playbin2
-
- Banshee now uses the playbin2 GStreamer element. With this comes
- support for gapless playback, which is the default now for users
- with GStreamer > 0.10.25.2.
-
- * Grid View
-
- We are debuting a new grid mode for our custom list widget, visible
- in the modified Album browser. It will be used for Videos,
- Audiobooks, and more in future releases.
-
- * YouTube Extension
-
- This extension shows YouTube videos in the Context Pane related to
- what you're playing, and lets you watch them within Banshee. You
- can enable it in the Extensions tab of the Preferences dialog.
-
- Enhancements:
-
- * Improve search responsiveness on large libraries
- * Add icons for Nexus One and Audiobooks
- * Play Queue item count, size, duration now ignores old tracks
- * Muinshee fixes: disable Auto-DJ, allow reordering, hide previous song
+ Banshee 1.5.6 (1.6 RC2) is a bug fix release, preparing for the stable 1.6
+ release on March 31.
Notable bug fixes:
- * Fix a very common, SQL-related crash in 1.5.4
- * Fix saving equalizer settings in culture-invariant way
- * Jumping to a source's prefs via its context menu works again
- * Usage data not submitted more than every 48 hours
- * Fix repeatedly resyncing some files to a device b/c transcoded
- * Clear the redo stack on shuffle mode change
- * Accept feeds with empty title
- * Uri encode file location queries, making them work properly
- * Fixes to the OS X build
-
- * 26 bugs were fixed since 1.5.4
+ * Fix rendering and interaction bugs in the grid view
+ * Fix issue with volume getting reset on every song change
+ * Handle volume changes from outside Banshee (eg PulseAudio)
+ * Fix issue parsing some RSS feeds
+ * Fix library importing and rescanning on all IO backends
+ * Support coverart for albums without an artist (bgo#612626)
+ * Don't capture 's' presses if keybindings disabled
+ * Fix typing in the Wikipedia webkit view
+ * Fix equalizer settings migration (bgo#612669)
+ * Redraw the entire ListView when dragging columns
+
+ * Fix bad startup crash in PlayQueue on old Mono
+ * Fix "Too many open files" bug with GIO backend
+ * [Banshee.Hardware] Handle exceptions (bgo#613173)
+ * [PodcastActions] Unsubscribe from an event on dispose
+ * [ContextPane] Fix crash if active removed (bgo#613277)
+ * [LastfmSource] Fix crash (bgo#612824)
+ * [Lastfm] Fix crash using auth Refresh button (bgo#610911)
+ * [Lastfm] Fix crash (bgo#613276)
+
+ * Fix compilation error with older Mono
+ * Fix compilation error with bundled notify-sharp
+ * Fix --disable-youtube flag
+ * Set YouTube install dir to Extensions/
+ * Fix building with older GStreamer (bgo#613339)
+
+ * 44 bugs were fixed since 1.5.5
===============================================================================
@@ -69,9 +58,9 @@ SOURCES / PACKAGES
Sources
-------
- * Banshee 1.5.5 Tarballs:
- http://download.banshee-project.org/banshee/stable/1.5.5/banshee-1-1.5.5.tar.bz2
- http://download.banshee-project.org/banshee/stable/1.5.5/banshee-1-1.5.5.tar.gz
+ * Banshee 1.5.6 Tarballs:
+ http://download.banshee-project.org/banshee/stable/1.5.6/banshee-1-1.5.6.tar.bz2
+ http://download.banshee-project.org/banshee/stable/1.5.6/banshee-1-1.5.6.tar.gz
Packages
--------
@@ -88,13 +77,13 @@ Packages
Binaries for Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6:
- * http://download.banshee-project.org/banshee/banshee-1-1.5.5.macosx.intel.dmg
+ * http://download.banshee-project.org/banshee/banshee-1-1.5.6.macosx.intel.dmg
ChangeLogs & Checksums
----------------------
- * http://download.banshee-project.org/banshee/stable/1.5.5/banshee-1-1.5.5.changes
- * http://download.banshee-project.org/banshee/stable/1.5.5/banshee-1-1.5.5.sha256sum
+ * http://download.banshee-project.org/banshee/stable/1.5.6/banshee-1-1.5.6.changes
+ * http://download.banshee-project.org/banshee/stable/1.5.6/banshee-1-1.5.6.sha256sum
===============================================================================
@@ -109,7 +98,7 @@ DEPENDENCIES
* NDesk DBus (ndesk-dbus) 0.5
* NDesk DBus GLib (ndesk-dbus-glib) 0.3
* Mono.Addins (mono-addins) 0.3.1
- * TagLib# (taglib-sharp) >= 2.0.3.5
+ * TagLib# (taglib-sharp) >= 2.0.3.7
* Required to build default feature stack:
* libmtp >= 0.2.0
@@ -162,7 +151,7 @@ REPORT BUGS - HELP THE PROJECT - GROW THE COMMUNITY
hesitate to file bugs!
* http://banshee-project.org/contribute/file-bugs
- * http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=banshee&version=1.5.5
+ * http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=banshee&version=1.5.6
===============================================================================
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