ANNOUNCE: Banshee 0.11.2

[Aaron Bockover <abockover novell com>]

Banshee 0.11.2

"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 interactive interpreted Boo shell (CTRL-SHIFT-S) that allows live
in-process manipulation of Banshee using the Boo language (Aaron
Bockover)

 * Show DAAP shares under a single master container source (Scott
Peterson, BGO #363548)

 * Recursive child sources now possible (Scott Peterson, BGO #363548)

 * Load XML audio profiles from multiple sources; fixed sorting issue
with the combo control; added 'mode' support to mp3-lame; load profiles
from the BANSHEE_PROFILES_PATH environment variable if set (Aaron
Bockover)

 * New SQL Database Command layer for more secure and optimized queries
(Aaron Bockover)

 * MTP fixes and improvements (Patrick van Staveren)

 * Do not require intltool 0.35 (Aaron Bockover)

 * Fixed various build problems and workaround regarding Mono 1.1.18
(Aaron Bockover, Alp Toker)
 
 * Bugs fixed: BNC #212477, BGO #363548


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/0.11.2

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 0.11.2 Tarball:
http://banshee-project.org/files/banshee/banshee-0.11.2.tar.gz

Banshee Official Plugins 0.11.2 Tarball
http://banshee-project.org/files/banshee-official-plugins/banshee-official-plugins-0.11.2.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.