[banshee] NEWS almost ready to go for 1.5.0
- From: Gabriel Burt <gburt src gnome org>
- To: svn-commits-list gnome org
- Subject: [banshee] NEWS almost ready to go for 1.5.0
- Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 19:40:54 -0400 (EDT)
commit aeb1bc70c8ecdd7ce4c87b739983729ba743987c
Author: Gabriel Burt <gabriel burt gmail com>
Date: Thu May 21 18:30:17 2009 -0500
NEWS almost ready to go for 1.5.0
---
NEWS | 103 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------------
1 files changed, 63 insertions(+), 40 deletions(-)
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 9a0f6b6..2b7a206 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -17,47 +17,70 @@ WELCOME TO BANSHEE 1.5.0 - Released May 22, 2009 - "The Keyboard Cat Release"
NEW AWESOME FEATURES AND ENHANCEMENTS
===============================================================================
- Banshee 1.5.0 is an unstable, beta release. It brings many big changes and
- new features, and is the first release in what will become 1.6.0.
+ Banshee 1.5.0 is an unstable, beta release. It brings many big changes,
+ new features, and fixes, and is the first release in what will become 1.6.0.
- Improvements:
-
- * Add support for itms:// podcast links (BNC #465149)
- * Audio CDs appear in the Import Media dropdown (BNC #457918)
- * Right align track #, disc #, bpm, play/skip count columns (BGO #553322)
+ New Features:
+
+ * Powerful unicode-aware case-insensitive search; i.e. n matches Ã? and vice-versa
+ * Locale-specific, case-insensitive, unicode-aware sorting
+ * Artist/album/track sort fields support; i.e. can set artist sort to "Beatles, The"
+ * Separate library locations for Music, Video, and Podcast
+ * Creative Commons-aware license column/field
+ * Score column/field, automatically updated when played/skipped
+ * Beats per minute (BPM) support: column/field, preference to autodetect library-wide
+ * Rhythmbox library/metadata importer
+
+ Enhancements:
+
+ * Support importing/exporting XSPF playlists
+ * Support loading ASF playlists
+ * Whitelist .spx, 669, it, med, mod, mol, mtm, nst, s3m, stm, ult, wow, xm, and xnm
+ * Source-specific preferences, accessible via Preferences dialog and via sources' context menu
+ * Much improved child source sorting - live, persistent, with group-by-type option
+ * Priorty and resource-ware job scheduler; i.e. pauses BPM detection while importing
+ * Podcast espisode details tabs in track information/editor
+ * Can rename podcasts
+ * Can unsubscribe/download/refresh multiple podcasts at a time
+ * New 'Creative Commons' default Last.fm station
+ * New Refresh button for Last.fm stations
+ * More accurate seeking with click/DnD, can use mouse scrollwheel
+ * Make it easier to edit and reset ratings
+ * Compatibile with new actionless notification systems
+ * Only scale cover art for notification-daemon system
+ * Add mnemonics to track editor fields and import dialog
+ * Show device sync summary; how items sync would add/remove
+ * Make previous button go back if less than 4 seconds into a song
Notable bug fixes:
- * Handle parsing non-UTF8 RSS feeds (BGO #538224)
- * Fix bug with Rescan UI being glitchy, CPU heavy (BGO #552561)
- * Don't import podcast episodes during Rescan (BGO #552976)
- * Fix localization issue with audio profiles (BNC #449788)
- * Fix duplicating and clearing File System Queue playlists
- * Set the mimetype on ripped tracks (BGO #558526)
- * Fix opening to a specific device/cd (BNC #461677)
- * Fix support for playing m3u's etc passed in from Firefox (BNC #456120)
- * Fixed Rio Karma support (BGO #566205)
- * Escape closes the equalizer dialog (BGO #552818).
- * Fix crash that occured near the end of syncing a DAP (BGO #558662)
- * Fix audio cd crash when running in certain languages (BGO #565059)
- * Deleting last track in a folder on MassStorage works (BGO #560550)
- * Support passing filenames with spaces to banshee-1 (BNC #440883)
- * Prevent browser panes from being made zero height (BGO #560675)
- * Prevent DAAP-related freeze by delaying initialization (BNC #450125)
- * Fix unsubscribing from the last podcast (BGO #560210)
- * Fix issue with first track's TrackCount in editor (BGO #561083)
- * Fix albums sometimes listed twice, as compilation and not (BGO #557313)
- * Fix podcast episodes' published date when playing (BGO #565863)
- * Fix bug with encoding/scrobbling non-ASCII info (BGO #539963)
- * Fix case-sensitivity bug with genre smart playlists (BGO #555120)
- * Support parsing dates for some invalid RSS feeds (BGO #561381)
- * Files with uppercase extensions show in import dialog (BGO #566224)
- * 62 bugs were FIXED since 1.4.1
-
- OS X specific:
-
- * Fix support for mp3 playback on OS X
- * Updated to latest GStreamer release (0.10.22 core, 0.10.22 base)
+ * Fix problems with subscribing and downloading some podcasts
+ * Unescape URLs received from Last.fm so can open in browser
+ * Don't show Skip button in now-playing notification for radio tracks
+ * Fixed notification area popup position on multi-monitor systems
+ * Support and default to using %album_artist% in folder organization preference
+ * Revamped illegal filename characters code to not be overly strict
+ * Trim periods and spaces appropriately for NTFS compatibility
+ * Make the source list accessible
+ * Visibly disable repeat/shuffle when in Play Queue
+ * Update UI when changing repeat/shuffle via dbus
+ * Better feedback while waiting for network streams to connect
+ * Fix bugs with device playlist sync
+ * Fix bugs with MTP device track transfer
+ * Fix bug with device sync where it would repeatedly remove/add the same tracks
+ * Fix mass storage device support to respect folder_depth (like it used to)
+ * Fix bug with transferring ratings to iPods
+ * Focus the track list on jump-to-playing item
+ * Fix several relatively minor ListView rendering and interaction issues
+ * Right-align the header text of right-aligned columns
+ * Fix size/position restoration on startup/notification-area toggle
+ * Fix the track editor forward/back buttons to focus/select the current field
+ * Disable track editor field-sync for Track Artist when is compilation checked
+ * Fix bug with reading bitrate on VBR tracks
+ * Fix bug with getting the release year from MusicBrainz
+ * Improve the rating rendering, including fixing it for dark themes
+
+ * 165 bugs were FIXED since 1.4.4
===============================================================================
@@ -98,7 +121,7 @@ ChangeLogs & Checksums
DEPENDENCIES
===============================================================================
- * Mono 1.2.6 (.NET 2.0 Profile / gmcs)
+ * Mono 1.9.1 (.NET 2.0 Profile / gmcs)
* SQlite 3.4
* Gtk# 2.10
* GStreamer 0.10.3
@@ -106,14 +129,14 @@ DEPENDENCIES
* NDesk DBus (ndesk-dbus) 0.5
* NDesk DBus GLib (ndesk-dbus-glib) 0.3
* Mono.Addins (mono-addins) 0.3.1
- * TagLib# (taglib-sharp) 2.0.3.1
+ * TagLib# (taglib-sharp) 2.0.3.1 (2.0.3.2 recommended)
* Required to build default feature stack:
* libmtp >= 0.2.0
* Note to packagers: since libmtp has different .so files for
different versions, you need to require in your package the same
version of libmtp you used to build Banshee.
- * ipod-sharp >= 0.8.1
+ * ipod-sharp >= 0.8.1 (0.8.2 recommended)
* mono-zeroconf >= 0.8.0
* boo >= 0.8.1
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