ANNOUNCE: Banshee 0.11.1

[Aaron Bockover <abockover novell com>]

Banshee 0.11.1

"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."


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 (0.5.1) and ipod-sharp (0.6.2) are required for iPod
support

 * helix-dbus-server (0.3.0) is required for Helix/RealPlayer
integration


NEW CORE FEATURES
-----------------

 * New encoding profile support: user friendly and easily configurable.
Vorbis uses the quality metric instead of constant bitrates. Each DAP
device can also save and manage its own encoding profile. (Aaron
Bockover)

 * Updated DAAP core to 0.3.5; importing from DAAP now works
(daap-sharp, James Willcox)

 * New DBus support that does not depend on old dbus-sharp or libdbus;
see http://ndesk.org/DBusSharp (Alp Toker, Aaron Bockover)

 * HAL support now uses DBus instead of libhal (Aaron Bockover)

 * Notification support now uses DBus instead of libnotify (Sebastian
Dr�

 * Updates to smart playlists (Gabriel Burt)

 * Updated build system - easier to build banshee components and
supports running fully uninstalled ('make run') (Aaron Bockover)

 * Patches merged back from 0.10.x: BNC #200953, #199902, #188437

 * Other bugs fixed: BNC #184491, #187643, #199345, BGO #357548,
#356990, #356985, #348373 (Michael Quinn), #361943
   

NEW OFFICIAL PLUGINS FEATURES
-----------------------------

These features are found in the banshee-official-plugins module, not in 
Banshee core:

 * Minor fixes and updates to podcasting (Mike Urbanski)


IMPORTANT LINKS
---------------

Release Overview Page:
http://banshee-project.org/Releases/0.11.1

SLED 10 Packages (ZYPP Repository):
http://dist.banshee-project.org/SLED-10

openSUSE 10.2 Packages (YUM Repository):
http://dist.banshee-project.org/SUSE-10.2

Banshee 0.11.1 Tarball:
http://banshee-project.org/files/banshee/banshee-0.11.1.tar.gz

Banshee Official Plugins 0.11.1 Tarball:
http://banshee-project.org/files/banshee-official-plugins/banshee-official-plugins-0.11.1.tar.gz

ipod-sharp 0.6.2 Tarball:
http://banshee-project.org/files/ipod-sharp/ipod-sharp-0.6.2.tar.gz

libipoddevice 0.5.1 Tarball:
http://banshee-project.org/files/libipoddevice/libipoddevice-0.5.1.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

xing MP3 Encoder Tarball:
http://banshee-project.org/files/gstreamer-xing/gstreamer-xing-0.10.2.tar.gz

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


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)


MORE NOTES
----------

* 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.