[Shotwell] Final call for testing: Shotwell 0.8.1

[Jim Nelson]

Hello all,

We're wrapping up development of what will become Shotwell 0.8.1, the latest
version of Yorba's GNOME photo manager.  This release fixes a number of bugs
and adds some new features:

* http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/3030 - Support 3GP video
* http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/3033 - Segfault importing JPEG
* http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/3050 - Build with Vala 0.10.2
* http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/3056 - Support Samsung SRW RAW files
* http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/3057 - Video metadata issues w/ certain MP4
files
* http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/3014 - Segfault when writing metadata to file
* http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/3041 - Import freezes on an MPEG file
* http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/3020 - Segfault at startup

(Note that SRW files are currently not reported to Shotwell via gphoto2.
This should be fixed in the next release of gphoto2.)

A final push of testing would help us work out anything we missed that's in
need of immediate attention.  If you're interested in testing this newest
version of Shotwelll, I encourage you to checkout the 0.8.1 candidate and
try it yourself.  I've merged changes from branch into trunk, so if you're
running from trunk you should see these fixes when you next update (as well
as some other goodies we've been working on).

If you'd like to try what will soon be 0.8.1, follow the instructions here:

http://yorba.org/shotwell/install/#source

However, instead of pulling from trunk, I encourage you to use the branch
build, which is what will be packaged:

$ svn co svn://svn.yorba.org/shotwell/branches/shotwell-0.8

Since this is pre-release software, you might consider backing up your
library before starting:

http://trac.yorba.org/wiki/Shotwell/FAQ#HowcanIbackupmyShotwelllibrary

Cheers,

-- Jim