[banshee] release: Update NEWS for the 2.4.0 release
- From: Bertrand Lorentz <blorentz src gnome org>
- To: commits-list gnome org
- Cc:
- Subject: [banshee] release: Update NEWS for the 2.4.0 release
- Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 18:08:52 +0000 (UTC)
commit cba1e33d3a480efcca45e4190d5e2ddf9c10cb75
Author: Bertrand Lorentz <bertrand lorentz gmail com>
Date: Mon Mar 19 19:07:59 2012 +0100
release: Update NEWS for the 2.4.0 release
NEWS | 116 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
1 files changed, 102 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
---
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 627eda7..48ad99a 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,14 +1,90 @@
===============================================================================
-Banshee 2.3.6 - 2012-03-07
+Banshee 2.4.0 - 2012-03-21
===============================================================================
- Banshee 2.3.6 is part of the 2.3 development series leading up to 2.4,
- scheduled for March 21st, 2012.
-
- Notable Bugs Fixed (4 fixed since 2.3.5):
-
+ Banshee 2.4 is the culmination of six months' work by 31 developers, 33
+ translators and dozens of bug reporters and testers. It is a stable release,
+ the successor to Banshee 2.2.
+
+ New Features:
+
+ * DVD playback support
+
+ Watch your DVDs with Banshee. You can navigate in the DVD's menus
+ using the mouse or the keyboard.
+
+ * More flexible browsing of your media
+
+ You can now display the genres and years in the browser, in
+ addition to the artists and the albums, and use them to filter your
+ music library. The artist filter can be hidden, or it can be set to
+ only display album artists, instead of all artists in your library.
+
+ * UPnP support
+
+ Browse and play music or videos shared over your local network
+ by UPnP device.
+
+ Enhancements:
+
+ * Several improvements to Muinshee, our alternative UI:
+ * Add separate options for writing ratings and play counts to files
+ * Dap.MassStorage: Add support for the Archos Internet Tablet
+ * Dap.MassStorage: Don't sync 'unknown album' metadata
+ * Update values for the Smiley Face equalizer preset
+ * MusicBrainz: Enable FreeBSD support
+ * Set the PulseAudio media.role property
+ * StreamPositionLabel: Fix label when loading
+ * Preferences: Change wording of Metadata settings
+ * Add a Composer filter in the SearchEntry filter menu
+ * bgo#548636: Lastfm: Use one single directory for last.fm caching
+ * bgo#587964: Dap: Add support for DOS folder separator in playlists
+ * bgo#589196: Dap.MassStorage: metadata resync in manual mode.
+ * bgo#608389: AudiobookLibrarySource: Accept tracks dragged from playlists
+ * bgo#664424: AsxPlaylistFormat: Add support for external ASX playlists
+ * bgo#664642: Add support for the NEC LifeTouch Note
+ * bgo#666488: Dap.MassStorage: Add and use specific icons for Xperia phones
+ * bgo#666493: Emusic.Store: Remove unneeded refresh
+ * bgo#665997: Mpris: Add xesam:userRating field in track metadata.
+
+ Notable Bugs Fixed (XXX fixed since 2.2.0):
+
+ * UbuntuOneMusicStore: Ensure u1ms URIs passed at startup get loaded
+ * Daap: Fix crash while resolving the address of a DAAP service
+ * DatabaseImportManager: Support importing .mka files
+ * Notify playlists on rating change through d-bus or command line
+ * Mpris: Change trackid type from string to DBus object path
+ * Mpris: Fix OpenUri method to also support http URIs
+ * Gio: Fix encoding of URIs in Directory class and fix values in database
+ * LibraryWatcher: Catch and log exception when processing changes
+ * Prevent missing icons in the source tarball
* bgo#548366: Allow primary sources to marked as temporary
+ * bgo#628518: build: Add a --disable-webkit flag to configure
+ * bgo#638130: Fix importing of rating and play count when updating track
+ * bgo#644145: Fix FileLocation queries for the StartsWith operator
+ * bgo#644270: Fix crash on Windows if the log file can't be opened
+ * bgo#647898: Try to fetch coverart without an internet connection
+ * bgo#648522: Fix race condition when starting multiple instances.
+ * bgo#649277: NotificationArea: Only use supported tags in the message
+ * bgo#651743: YouTubeTile: Fix construction of the playback URI
+ * bgo#656439: Audiobook: Add a button to go back to the list of audiobooks
+ * bgo#656533: Notification: Fix application name used in internal notify#
+ * bgo#658803: Prune CoverArtDownloads table when removing tracks
+ * bgo#659146: Daap: Always send revision-number in update requests
+ * bgo#659841: GnomeBackend: Be more robust against GConf failures
+ * bgo#661322: PlaybackShuffleActions: Fix crash when setting shuffle mode
+ * bgo#661467: AmazonMp3: Handle plain text AMZ files now sent by Amazon
+ * bgo#662122: AudioscrobblerConnection: Fix crash during scrobbling
+ * bgo#662883: Fix activation of UbuntuOneMusicStore source on startup
+ * bgo#662906: AudiobookLibrarySource: Fix crash when adding tracks
+ * bgo#663318: GConfProxy: Don't use a proxy if the proxy host is empty
+ * bgo#664079: Skip empty files when importing and show error
+ * bgo#664381: Dap.MassStorage: Rename Xperia X12 to Xperia arc
* bgo#666981: LibraryWatcher: avoid importing incomplete files
+ * bgo#667355: SourceWatcher: Fix SQL error caused by incorrect escaping.
+ * bgo#667478: Fix build with libmtp 1.1.
+ * bgo#668417: Fix MusicBrainz dllmap for cross-architecture support
+ * bgo#671536: WebBrowser: Implement SSL certificate validation
===============================================================================
SOURCES / PACKAGES
@@ -17,9 +93,9 @@ SOURCES / PACKAGES
Sources
-------
- * Banshee 2.3.6 Tarballs:
- http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/banshee/2.3/banshee-2.3.6.tar.xz
- http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/banshee/2.3/banshee-2.3.6.sha256sum
+ * Banshee 2.4.0 Tarballs:
+ http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/banshee/2.4/banshee-2.4.0.tar.xz
+ http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/banshee/2.4/banshee-2.4.0.sha256sum
Packages
--------
@@ -42,7 +118,7 @@ REPORT BUGS - HELP THE PROJECT - GROW THE COMMUNITY
hesitate to file bugs!
* http://banshee.fm/contribute/file-bugs
- * http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=banshee&version=2.3.6
+ * http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=banshee&version=2.4.0
===============================================================================
@@ -55,11 +131,23 @@ Contributors For This Release
The following people directly contributed to the release of this version
of Banshee. Without their help, there would be no release!
- Andre Klapper, Andres G. Aragoneses, Bertrand Lorentz, Neil Loknath,
- Phil Trimble
+ Adam Lofts, Age Bosma, Alex Launi, Alexander Kojevnikov, Andre Klapper,
+ Andres G. Aragoneses, Arun Raghavan, Bertrand Lorentz, Chow Loong Jin,
+ Felipe Castillo, Frank Ziegler, James Otting, Jo Shields, Jordi Mas,
+ Kentaro KAZUHAMA, Kevin Anthony, Neil Loknath, Nuno Araujo,
+ OKANO Takayoshi, Olivier Dufour, Pacho Ramos, Phil Trimble, Robin Stocker,
+ Roderich Schupp, Rodney Dawes, Timothy Arceri, Tobias Arrskog,
+ Travis Glenn Hansen, Udesh Liyanaarachchi, Will Thompson, William Witt
The following people contributed updated translations to this release.
Without them, our project's reach would be much more limited.
- BenjamÃn Valero, Fran DiÃguez, Kristjan SCHMIDT, Marek ÄernockÃ,
- Mario BlÃttermann, Matej UrbanÄiÄ, ÐÐÑÐÑÐÐÐ ÐÐÐÐÐÐÑ
+ Andrej ÅnidarÅiÄ, AntÃnio Lima, BenjamÃn Valero, Bruno Brouard,
+ Changwoo Ryu, Cheng-Chia Tseng, Christian Kirbach, Daniel Mustieles,
+ Daniel Nylander, Fran DiÃguez, Funda Wang, Gabor Kelemen,
+ Gianvito Cavasoli, Hajime Taira, Hendrik Knackstedt, Jiro Matsuzawa,
+ Jordi Mas, Jorge GonzÃlez, Kentaro KAZUHAMA, Kristjan SCHMIDT,
+ Marek ÄernockÃ, Mario BlÃttermann, Matej UrbanÄiÄ, Mateusz Kacprzak,
+ Misha Shnurapet, Muhammet Kara, OKANO Takayoshi, Pavol KlaÄanskÃ,
+ Piotr DrÄg, Praveen Illa, Rudolfs Mazurs, Yuri Myasoedov, ÐÐÑÐÑÐÐÐ ÐÐÐÐÐÐÑ
+
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