Monthly Archive for March, 2011

forked-daapd: v0.14

Published on March 25, 2011 in forked-daapd and Hacks. Closed

forked-daapd v0.14 is available. This release includes a number of improvements to the sort headers/sort fields handling by Kai that got entangled into a larger database revamp at the end of last year. That will be the subject of the next release.

Also in this release:

  • better handling of tags for TV shows
  • better handling of DRM-afflicted files
  • configurable IPv6 support
  • fixes to the URL file scanner
  • misc fixes

This release performs a heavy database upgrade process that dumps and reloads the files table; this can take some time on big libraries, so please be patient while this process takes place. You should backup your database file before upgrading, just in case.

See you in about two weeks for 0.15 with some database speedups that will finally see the light :-)

Tarballs available at http://alioth.debian.org/~jblache/forked-daapd/ ; GPG signatures made with my Debian key F5D65169.

pommed v1.38: MacBookPro8,*

Published on March 19, 2011 in Hacks and pommed. Closed

pommed v1.38 is out and adds support for the Early 2011 MacBook Pro machines:

  • MacBookPro8,1: 13″
  • MacBookPro8,2: 15″
  • MacBookPro8,3: 17″

These machines have a new keyboard/trackpad assembly, the WellSpring 5. You’ll need a patched kernel or a kernel recent enough that it has the USB HID quirks for the new assembly; that’s 2.6.39-rc material.

This release also adds a new config item that allows disabling the audio support in pommed entirely. The audio hotkeys are fairly well supported in desktop environments nowadays so you’ll probably want that if you’re using one.

forked-daapd: v0.13

Published on March 12, 2011 in forked-daapd and Hacks. Closed

forked-daapd v0.13 is available! This release has been in the making for a long time, got delayed for a lot of reasons and had its content changed a few times along the way. Nonetheless, it’s here now and if all goes to plan at least a couple releases should appear in the coming months, say before the summer.

In this release:

  • support for Remote 2.0
  • support for per-speaker volume control
  • support for RAOP retransmission
  • improved compatibility with the 802.11g AirPort Express
  • support for sort field metadata
  • support for JPEG artwork and more alternative filenames
  • fix for Murmur hash on 32bit platforms
  • improved mDNS address resolution, making IPv4 usable again
  • support for FFmpeg 0.6 (moving away from deprecated APIs)
  • DAAP session expiration has been disabled
  • misc fixes

Thanks to all the contributors that sent bugs and patches for this release! I know development doesn’t go quite as fast as some would like, but keep in mind that I’m doing this in whatever free time I have and that the public git tree doesn’t tell the whole story. There are several parallel feature branches you don’t get to see, for instance.

Hopefully 0.14 will appear in a few weeks.

Tarballs available at http://alioth.debian.org/~jblache/forked-daapd/ ; GPG signatures made with my Debian key F5D65169.

Digi AccelePort driver 1.3-21 available for Squeeze

Published on March 2, 2011 in Debian. Closed

Long time no see! I’ve just packaged Digi’s latest dgap beta release, dgap 1.3-21, for Squeeze.

The packages are available at the usual address, using this APT source:

deb http://debian.technologeek.org squeeze non-free

I have made some changes to the packaging as far as udev and firmware loading is concerned, but this is nothing major. Firmware files moved out of /usr, along with udev-related utilities.

Should you notice any issue with the packages or the APT repository, please let me know.

The previous packages, version 1.3-15, are still available for Lenny, APT source unchanged:

deb http://debian.technologeek.org lenny non-free