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Banshee 0.12.1 (April 1, 2007)

Module Notes

  • The banshee-official-plugins module has been merged with core, so banshee-official-plugins is now obsolete
  • libipoddevice (0.5.3) and ipod-sharp (0.6.3) are required for iPod support
  • Helix support has been removed from core and is now available from the Helix Banshee community project. More information regarding Helix support can be found at: helix-banshee.helixcommunity.org

Release Notes

  • This release is the first maintenance release in the 0.12.x series; it only contains critical and important bug fixes, and translation updates
  • Most importantly, this release (along with ipod-sharp and libipoddevice) brings iTunes 7.1 iPod compatibility, iPod Shuffle 2 support, and improved HFS+ read-only iPod support

Localization

  • New translations:
    • Dzongkha (Pema Geyleg, norbu)
  • Updated translations:
    • Bulgarian (Vladimir Petkov)
    • Catalan (Jordi Mas i Hernàndez)
    • Czech (Jakub Friedl)

Bug Fixes

  • This release requires ipod-sharp 0.6.3, libipoddevice 0.5.3 for iPod support
    • Support iPods used with iTunes 7.1
    • Much better HFS+ iPod support in read only mode
    • Support second generation iPod shuffles
  • Fixed crash when importing a large collection from an iPod to a library
  • Fixed crash when reading audio profiles on an iPod
  • Fixed a typo in DefaultLibraryPath
  • Fixed minor issue when reading potentially invalid dates from podcast tables

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Miscellaneous Goodies

Contributors for this release

Community makes Open Source work!

Aaron Bockover, James Willcox

Contributors for past releases [1]

Aaron Bockover, Alexandros Frantzis, Alp Toker, Bertrand Lorentz, Bob Copeland, Brian Nickel, Chris Turchin, Christopher James Halse Rogers, Gabriel Burt, Jakub Steiner, James Willcox, Juri Pakaste, Michael Monreal, Mike Urbanski, Nathan Palmer, Patrick van Staveren, Ruben Vermeersch, Sebastian Dröge Scott Peterson, Tim Yamin, Trey Ethridge

[1] This list is actually only accurate since 0.11.3. I need to grep the ChangeLog to build a complete list. If your name is missing here, feel free to let us know, or just wait for it to appear in a later release.

Something to share with friends and family

We hit the 2000th commit (http://svn.gnome.org/viewcvs/banshee/?view=rev&rev=2000) in Banshee Subversion between 0.11.4 and 0.11.5!

Thanks!

Enjoy the release! We appreciate your support and involvement!