Rygel 0.7.3 (Out of Their Minds)

["Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)" <zeenix gmail com>]

Rygel 0.7.3 (Out of Their Minds) is out!

A new release in the current unstable 0.7.x series for upcoming GNOME 2.31.6
release.

- Add Album-art support.
- Add support for sorted Browse/Search.
- Don't push data after HTTP response is cancelled.
- Advertise support for search by "createClass".
- Revive accidently removed XBox hacks.
- Fix icon export for uninstalled case.
- Simplify plugin APIs to further abstract plugin developers from UPnP details.
- Add convenient MediaRenderer APIs for plugins. This involved moving most of
  the GstRenderer code to core.
- Fix seeking once again.
- Improve error handling in HTTP request handling code.
- Port to new DIDL-Lite contributor APIs.
- Port to Vala 0.9.3 and 0.9.4.
- Clean-up README and specify build and run-time dependencies.
- More debug output.
- MediaExport:
  - Make use of gupnp-dlna for faster, more complete and reliable metadata
    extraction.
  - Print a debug message if extraction fails for a file.
  - Add windows formats to positive list of file extensions to include in the
    metadata extraction.
  - Don't share anyt folder by default.
  - Fix url-escaped folder names on PS3.
  - Fix issue of empty title of top-level virtual folders on PS3.
  - Process 256 children at a time. This improves performance of harvesting of
    large folders.
- GstRenderer:
  - Rename to Playbin.
  - Advertize support for 'video/mp4'
  - Advertize support for RTSP
  - Handle error from playbin.
  - Don't claim support for unsupported UPnP actions and state variables.
- External:
  - Fix a crasher bug.
- Localization:
  - Add French translation.
  - Update Simplified Chinese translations.
  - Update German translation.
  - Update Galician translation.
  - Update Swedish translation.
  - Update Slovenian translation.
- Lots of other non-functional and/or minor improvements and fixes.

Dependency-related changes:

- Require Vala >= 0.9.3
- Require gupnp >= 0.13.4
- Require gupnp-av >= 0.5.8
- Require gupnp-dlna >= 0.2.1 (new dependency)
- Require libgee >= 0.5.2
- Use gtk+-2.0 (>= 2.21.5) if available rather than gtk+-3.0

Bugs fixed in this release:

607411 - Need to mention non-compile time deps.
624445 - Samsung can't FF/REW/PAUSE when playing video/avi from Rygel.
625556 - New configure flag to switch GTK+ version.

All contributors to this release:

Aron Xu <aronxu gnome org>
Arun Raghavan <arun raghavan collabora co uk>
Claude Paroz <claude 2xlibre net>
Eleanor Chen <chenyueg gmail com>
Frédéric Péters <fpeters 0d be>
Javier Jardón <jjardon gnome org>
Jens Georg <mail jensge org>
Mario Blättermann <mariobl gnome org>
Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) <zeeshanak gnome org>

Download source tarball here: http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/rygel/0.7/
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What is Rygel?

Rygel is a collection of DLNA (UPnP AV) services implemented through a plug-in
mechanism. UPnP in simplest words is a set of protocols that defines
how different
devices on a home network can seamlessly (without or with minimum configuration)
communicate with each other. UPnP AV defines how multimedia systems could be
built on top of that. DLNA in simple words is a long list of rules
that implementers
must comply to if they want to achieve interoperability with other
implementations
in the market.

More info at project home page: http://live.gnome.org/Rygel

-- 
Regards,

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
FSF member#5124