From 90de477aa6b9342b88faa4219caba3dcd17bd90a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)" Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 01:45:18 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] core: Prepare NEWS file for release 0.4.4 --- NEWS | 56 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 56 insertions(+) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index e816770..71044c2 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,3 +1,59 @@ +0.4.4 +===== + +Brief summary of changes since 0.4.2: + +- Provide a gstreamer-based MediaRenderer plugin. This is mostly code stolen ( + and heavily adapted) from gupnp-media-renderer except that it doesn't depend + on libowl-av and/or gtk+. +- More ease for MediaServer implementors. +- Better error handling. +- Make sure no message is suppressed until we know what level of console output + user wants. +- Make use of vala's async support to simplify code quite a bit. +- Plugins should load xml files from source tree when built with + '--enable-uninstalled' configure flag. +- Build with no optimizations in debug mode. +- Use closure table to speed up object lookup and deletion. +- Add build option for SQL debugging. +- Workaround a crasher bug (#3774) in sqlite 3.6.12. +- Use vala's static client D-Bus syntax. +- Early ignorance of disabled plugins. This not only speeds-up startup a bit but + also rids us of redundant debug messages. +- MediaExport: + - Nicely handle unavailability of gstreamer's playbin(2) element. + - Fix a potential crasher. +- Tracker: + - Use multidimensional arrays to deal with search results. This combined with + static client D-Bus syntax gives us quite a speed boost. + - Handle item creation error. +- External: + - Allow applications to provide custom thumbnails for items. + - Support pixel-aspect-ratio properties. + - All D-Bus operations are now done asynchronously. + - Make use of plugin icon if provided. + - Move magic string substitution to core so other plugins can benefit from it. +- Lots of other improvements and bug fixes. + +Dependency-related changes: + +- Require and adapt to libgee >= 0.5. +- Require and adapt to valac >= 0.7.8. +- Require gst-interfaces >= 0.10.23. + +Bugs fixed in this release: + +597276 - Rygel crash on startup +587649 - thumbnails not published for external media servers +589959 - External plugin should query media servers on demand +598005 - unable to load media-tracker plugin + +All contributors to this release: + +Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) +Jens Georg +Thijs Vermeir + 0.4.2 ===== -- 2.7.4