ANNOUNCE: Banshee 0.12.1

[Aaron Bockover <abockover novell com>]

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BANSHEE 0.12.1
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 * Banshee is a music management and playback application for GNOME.

   "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/0.12.1

 * This release is the first maintenance release in the 0.12.x series; it
   only contains critical and important bug fixes, and translation updates

 * Most importantly, this release (along with ipod-sharp and libipoddevice)
   brings iTunes 7.1 iPod compatibility, iPod Shuffle 2 support, and improved
   HFS+ read-only iPod support

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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 * Welcome
 * Module Notes
 * Get The Goods
   - Sources
   - ChangeLogs
   - Dependencies
 * New Stuff
   - Localization
 * Bugzilla Overview
   - Noteworthy bugs fixes/enhancements embraced 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
   - Contributors for past releases
   - Something to share with friends and family
   - Thanks!


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MODULE NOTES
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 * The banshee-official-plugins module has been merged with core, so 
   banshee-official-plugins is now obsolete
 
 * libipoddevice (0.5.3) and ipod-sharp (0.6.3) are required for iPod support

 * Helix support has been removed from core and is now available from
   the Helix Banshee community project. More information regarding Helix
   support can be found at: http://helix-banshee.helixcommunity.org
 

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GET THE GOODS
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Sources
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 * Banshee 0.12.1 Tarballs:
   http://banshee-project.org/files/banshee/banshee-0.12.1.tar.bz2
   http://banshee-project.org/files/banshee/banshee-0.12.1.tar.gz
 
 * ipod-sharp 0.6.3 Tarball:
   http://banshee-project.org/files/ipod-sharp/ipod-sharp-0.6.3.tar.gz

 * libipoddevice 0.5.3 Tarball:
   http://banshee-project.org/files/libipoddevice/libipoddevice-0.5.3.tar.gz

 * njb-sharp 0.3.0 Tarball:
   http://banshee-project.org/files/njb-sharp/njb-sharp-0.3.0.tar.gz

ChangeLogs
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 * http://banshee-project.org/files/banshee/banshee-0.12.1.changes

Dependencies
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 * 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)


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NEW STUFF
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Localization
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 * New translations:
    - Dzongkha (Pema Geyleg, norbu)

 * Updated translations: 
    - Bulgarian (Vladimir Petkov) 
    - Catalan (Jordi Mas i Hern�ez)
    - Czech (Jakub Friedl)

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BUG[ZILLA] OVERVIEW
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 * This release requires ipod-sharp 0.6.3, libipoddevice 0.5.3 for iPod support
   - Support iPods used with iTunes 7.1
   - Much better HFS+ iPod support in read only mode
   - Support second generation iPod shuffles

 * Fixed crash when importing a large collection from an iPod to a library
 * Fixed crash when reading audio profiles on an iPod
 * Fixed a typo in DefaultLibraryPath
 * Fixed minor issue when reading potentially invalid dates from podcast tables

File Bugs... Be Proactive... Contribute to Open Source!
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 * 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


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MISCELLANEOUS
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Contributors for this release
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   Community makes Open Source work!

   Aaron Bockover, James Willcox

Contributors for past releases [1]
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   Aaron Bockover, Alexandros Frantzis, Alp Toker, Bertrand Lorentz, 
   Bob Copeland, Brian Nickel, Chris Turchin, Christopher James Halse Rogers, 
   Gabriel Burt, Jakub Steiner, James Willcox, Juri Pakaste, Michael Monreal, 
   Mike Urbanski, Nathan Palmer, Patrick van Staveren, Ruben Vermeersch, 
   Sebastian Dr� Scott Peterson, Tim Yamin, Trey Ethridge

   [1] This list is actually only accurate since 0.11.3. I need to grep the
   ChangeLog to build a complete list. If your name is missing here, feel
   free to let us know, or just wait for it to appear in a later release.

Something to share with friends and family
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   We hit the 2000th commit in Banshee Subversion between 0.11.4 and 0.11.5!

Thanks!
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   Enjoy the release! We appreciate your support and involvement!