X-Git-Url: http://git.tuebingen.mpg.de/?p=paraslash.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=69d303b34a6bd8dd0992d8796d723a7a2ac9d379;hp=ddaca55419e655b4f374fa896b3955bf3d191d6a;hb=2a8029478dfc65f0c935d864faf4aea9e3deb27d;hpb=27a031aac0ed4d7b4e45b67afa3cbbb2b7ddb207 diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index ddaca554..69d303b3 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,20 +1,91 @@ NEWS ==== -0.?.? (to be announced) "atomic duality" -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - o update to gengetopt-2.16 +0.?.? (to be announced) "sonic convolution" +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +A bunch of new features and core changes. + + o the new paraslash scheduler, short and sweet. + + o Support for m4a files via the new aac filter/ and audio + format handler. (requires libfaad) + + o new writer: osxplay (thanks to Gerd Becker) + + o writers are integrated into para_audiod + + o each writer of para_write has its own command line parser, + just like para_recv and para_filter. + + o random/playlist selector: improved info strings + + +0.2.12 (2006-05-12) "oriented abstraction" +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +Many user-visible changes in this release and lots of new +features: + + + o the new optional dccp sender/receiver. It uses the datagram + congestion control protocol. You'll need a fairly new kernel + for this. + + o paraslash works on Mac OS X (thanks to Gerd Becker) + + o para_play renamed to para_write + + o modular output plugin design (writers) for para_write + + o new file_writer output plugin for para_write + + o compress filter speed improvements + + o update to libortp-0.9.1 + + o update to gengetopt-2.17rc + + o para_client no longer depends on libreadline (as the + code for the interactive mode was removed). + + o gcc-2-95 is no longer a supported compiler. It may still + work, but it gets no more testing. + + o the tarball no longer contains the screenshot images which + reduces its size quite a bit. + + o configure: new command line options: --enable-mysql-headers + and --enable-mysql-libs + +0.2.11 (2006-03-11) "atomic duality" +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +Here it is, the first paraslash release developed with git. There +are fairly many user-visible changes in this release. As two out of +the three "database tools" of paraslash don't use a database at all, +they are now called "audio file selectors" instead. + + + o the cdt command (change database tool) becomes chs (change + selector) + + o no more colon separators: The syntax of some options of + para_audiod and para_filter have changed. Use --help for + more info (and some examples). + + o update to gengetopt-2.16 (thanks to Lorenzo Bettini) - o switch from cvs to git + o switch from cvs to git (should've done that earlier) o the new ipc subsystem - o new audio file selector: plm, the playlist manager + o new audio file selector: playlist o para_server: the dopey selector is now called "random", and is the default selector. Use the --selector option to - choose another selector at startup, or the cdt command to - switch between the supported selectors. + choose another selector at startup, or the chs command to + change the selector at runtime. o X86_64 fixes (thanks to Steffen Klassert)