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GUPnP 0.13.1 is out! Release log: Changes since 0.13: - Use unix context manager if NetworkManager service is not available. - Fix some minor leaks. All contributors: Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) Ross Burton Download source tarballs from here

I always forget to announce the micro releases here. Here it is now: Brief summary of changes since 0.4.1: - Ability to specify verbosity of console messages by a number between 0 to 5. - Be able to survive unavailability of D-Bus session bus. This should make it easier to setup Rygel on headless NAS machines. - MediaExport: - Provide duration and date of media. - Improved guessing for type (UPnP class) of media. - Re-harvest metadata when a file/directory is modified. - Speed-up browsing (twice as before). - rygel-preferences: - Fix enabling/disabling of widgets. - Copy the desktop file from correct location. - Mediathek and GstLaunch disabled by default in the user configuration. - Add GstLaunch to maemo configuration (disabled by default though). - Put dbus-glib-1 to the list of vala API dependencies. - Fix seek headers. - Be more verbose at the end of configure. Bugs fixed in this release: 596500 - Mpeg TS video files are mistaken for audio files 596213 - Wrong state for

Soon after Rygel 0.4 was released , Peter Robinson pushed it for F12 and our good friend Bastien Nocera started testing it immediately. He found many issues and some of them were so critical that we immediately had to make a another release with fixes for those issues. Thanks Bastien!

Rygel 0.4 (Fascinating!) is out! As usual, the release announcement: Brief summary of changes since 0.3: - Rygel is no more just a MediaServer but rather a collection of DLNA (UPnP AV) services (devices in UPnP speak). - Port to new GUPnP APIs. The biggest advantage of that is that we now have dynamic network support, i-e Rygel can attach/detach to/from a network interface as it goes up/down. - Support for time-based seeking in transcoded streams. - Random tweaks to transcoding pipelines. - Provide a DBus service providing two functionalities: * Ability to tell Rygel to shutdown. Starting of Rygel is automatically handled by D-Bus since a .service file is provided by Rygel. * Ability to tell Rygel (MediaExport plugin actually) to (un)export URIs on the fly. - Implement enabling/disabling of UPnP in the preferences. - Configuration through command-line options. - Use a .ini configuration file rather than gconf. - Special default configuration for Maemo. - Don

GSSDP 0.7 released! Changes in this release: - Join the multicast group on the specified interface. - Put the message src timeout in the specified GMainContext. - "host-ip" property moved from GUPnPContext to parent GSSDPClient. - Use inet_aton instead of inet_addr and handle the error from it. - gssdp-device-sniffer ported to GtkBuilder. - Version-independent target match. This makes client forward and backward compatible with resources that implement different version of the specs than the client. - Version-independent M-SEARCH response. This has the same effect as above but only the other way around. - GSSDPClient now binds to interface rather than IP. - No need to find the default route. - Add "active" property to GSSDPClient. - Fix pkg-config paths. - Add basic .gitignore. - Other minor/internal changes. Bugs fixed: 1621 - new gssdp timeout not added to the specific maincontext 1570 - gupnp doesn't set the pkgconfig lib dir correctly in 64 bit env Dependenc

Changes since 0.12.7 - Don't crash if device descriptions don't contain a root element. - Fix pkg-config paths. - Avoid using asserts. - Use the closest match instead of using the icon that was last checked. - Expect xmlRecoverMemory to fail. - Reject action messages with zero content length. - Change version in action answer. Bug fixes in this release: - bug#1570: gupnp doesn't set the pkgconfig lib dir correctly in 64 bit env. - bug#1574: Avoid using asserts. - bug#1592: gupnp_device_info_get_icon_url() does not return the closest match. - bug#1604: Crash on action without any content. All contributors to this release: Ross Burton Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) Steven Dorigotti Sven Neumann Jens Georg Download at: http://gupnp.org/sources/gupnp/gupnp-0.12.8.tar.gz

Rygel 0.3 (Berlin is cool if it doesn't rain) is out! Here are is relase announcement: Brief summary of changes since 0.2.2: - Transcoding from any format (that gstreamer's decodebin2 can handle) to mp3, linear PCM and mpeg transport stream containing mpeg 2 video and mp2 audio. - Plugin API to deal with user preferences. - User preferences UI: rygel-preferences. - New plugins: * Folder: Recursively exports folders specified in the user preferences. * ZDFMediathek: Exports online media from 2nd German TV station. * External: Exports media hierarchies provided by external applications through implementation of this spec: http://live.gnome.org/Rygel/MediaServer. The first application that utilizes this feature is PulseAudio. - Drop xbox support. It didn't work anyway and we better concentrate on implementing standard stuff that it at least worthy of being called "UPnP" ( at least for now). - Tracker and DVB plugins are only loaded if their corre

Changes in this release: - Use g_printerr() instead of g_critical() in case of problems. - Initialize the GError to NULL at declaration. - Declare variables as const to setisfy the compiler. - Add missing casts. - Use g_content_type_is_a() to compare mimetypes. - Correct the order of mimetype check. - Iterate over item resources rather than renderer protocols. - Port all UIs to use GtkBuilder. - Bump-up Gtk+ requirement to 2.16. Removed dependency in this release: libglade. Contributors to this release: Sven Neumann < s.neumann@phase-zero.de > Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) < zeeshanak@gnome.org > Download tarball here: http://gupnp.org/sources/ gupnp-tools/gupnp-tools-0.7.1. tar.gz

GUPnP 0.12.7 released. Changes in this release: - Chain up dispose and finalize in GUPnPDeviceInfo - Use a dedicated SoupSession for event handling - Fix device icon fallback logic - Fix user agent string - Sanity check UDN while parsing Download source tarball from: http://gupnp.org/sources/gupnp/gupnp-0.12.7.tar.gz Contributors to this release: Sven Neumann Ross Burton Zeeshan Ali

GUPnP AV 0.4 released. New in this release: - Watch for empty DIDL-Lite nodes. - Escape the URIs before putting them into DIDL-Lite XML. - The '.' must be omitted from duration if fraction part is not included. - Be more lenient when parsing DIDL-Lite XML fragments. - Don't require the DLNA profile string. - Try to guess the DLNA Profile if not provided and put "*" in the whole 4th field of protocolInfo if our guess work fails. - Make sure 4th field of protocolInfo is completely in compliance with DLNA guidelines. This only implies one change in the API: enum dlna_play_speed is replaced by play_speeds, a GList of allowed play speeds as strings. - Use '1' and '0' to express boolean properties in DIDL-Lite XML. - Other minor fixes. All contributors to this release: Henrique Ferreiro García Peter Christensen Sven Neumann Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) Download from here: http://gupnp.org/sources/ gupnp-av/gupnp-av-0.4.tar.gz -----------------------------

Changes since 0.2: - Use the new (0.6.9) Tracker API. - Priority of gio-based streams are based on requested DLNA transfer mode. - GIO-based/like asynchronous plugin API. - Adapt to latest changes in gupnp-vala API. - Serialization of media objects isn't done by media objects themselves anymore, but by a new separate class, Rygel.DIDLLiteWriter. - Internal API is marked 'internal' so it doesn't get to our (Vala) API. - MediaObject now derives from GLib.Object. - Generic AsyncResult implementation, SimpleAsyncResult. - StateMachine interface that all state machines classes implement. - Visible performance improvements in Tracker plugin by proper use of Tracker APIs. - Use Filename.to_string() and therefore make Bastien happy. - Require lastest version (0.1.5) of libgee to use List.slice(). - Don't limit the number of objects returned to a client, let it decide that on it's own. - Proper handling of update notification to the client by use of a very simple bubble-

GSSDP 0.6.4 released New in this release: - Send ssdp:byebye before sending the first ssdp:alive. [Jussi Kukkonen] - Moderate the outbound SSDP messages. [Jussi Kukkonen] - Documentation fixes. [Jussi Kukkonen] - Send byebyes in dispose without sleep. [Jussi Kukkonen] - Use g_set_error_literal(). [Jorn Baayen] - Depend on glib 2.18. [Jorn Baayen] - Do not byebye unavailable resources. [Jorn Baayen] - All resources must respond to "ssdp:all" messages. [Hugo Calleja, Jorn Baayen] Download from here: http://gupnp.org/sources/ gssdp/gssdp-0.6.4.tar.gz --------------------------------- GUPnP 0.12.6 released: New in this release: - Port to FreeBSD. [Romain Tartière] - Ship the XML files needed for example app. [Romain Tartière] - Keep a reference on the control-point during signal emission. [Sven Neumann] - Allow passing NULL to ControlPoint constructor, for default resource factory. [Sven Neumann] - Remove debug output that accidentally went in with the last commit. [Sven Neumann]

Changes in this release: - Move/port to Guile-1.8. - Get rid of all locking and thread stuff and in turn dep on gthread. - Guile console. [Lionel Elie Mamane] - Use alist instead of list where appropriate. - Use XCHAT_EAT_* instead of hardcoded 0/1. [Lionel Elie Mamane] - Fix memory leak in xchat_write. [Lionel Elie Mamane] - We maintain this NEWS file from now on. :) - Some other minor fixes. Download release tarball from here: http://static.fi/~zeenix/xchat-guile/xchat-guile-0.3.tar.gz What is it? =========== XChat-Guile is a plugin for XChat that enables XChat plugin writers to write their plugins in Scheme language. Requirements: ============= * XChat >= 2.4.1 * Guile >= 1.6.4 API Documentation: http://static.fi/~zeenix/xchat-guile/xchat-guile.txt

Rygel 0.2 is out. Here is the release announcement: The major change after last release (as gupnp-media-server) is the introduction of a simple yet powerful plugin-based architecture/api: Everyone plugin: - is loaded into a separate MediaServer instance. - can implement any kind and number of resources (currently only services). - can export an icon file. - inherit it's ContentDirectory implementation from a base class that does most of the UPnP-related work. More improvements on this planned for next release. - use an intuitive API to easily export media from URIs and live GStreamer source elements over HTTP. Other changes: - Relicense under LGPL to allow proprietary plugins and ease of moving code from/to gupnp libraries. - DVB Daemon integration though a plugin. Now you can watch live channels from your PC on your PS3 for example. - Test plugin that exports one audio and video item, streaming contents from GStreamer's audiotestsrc and videotestsrc elements respect

Jorn made minor releases of GSSDP and GUPnP today. The main purpose of which is to fix the build on Rawhide. Here is the release announcement: GSSDP 0.6.2 =========== - Reannounce resources after max_age / 2 - 1 instead of after max_age. [Peter Christensen, Jorn Baayen] - Remove unnecessary call to g_thread_init(). [Zeeshan Ali] GUPnP 0.12.2 ============ - Support returning actions outside of the 'action-invoked' signal handler in service implementations. [Zeeshan Ali, Jorn Baayen] - Add explicit dependency on gthread. [Zeeshan Ali, Jorn Baayen]

GUPnP is an object-oriented open source framework for creating UPnP devices and control points, written in C using GObject and libsoup. The GUPnP API is intended to be easy to use, efficient and flexible. GUPnP MediaServer is an implementation of the UPnP MediaServer V 2.0 specification based on GUPnP and tracker . It is written (mostly) in Vala language. Download at http://gupnp.org/sources/gupnp-media-server/

Initial release of gupnp-vala. Includes Vala bindings for the whole gupnp stack: * gssdp-1.0 0.6.1 * gupnp-1.0 0.12 * gupnp-ui-1.0 0.1 * gupnp-av-1.0 0.2.1 - Requires Vala 0.3.3 - custom GUPnP types (like GUPnPURI) are not supported yet, use plain strings instead. Custom type support will return shortly in svn version.

network-light: - Remove the unneeded periodic notification to susbscribers. [Zeeshan Ali Khattak] - Create a new UUID for each instance of network-light. [Hugo Calleja, Zeeshan Ali Khattak] - Use the new gupnp_root_device_new() API. [Jorn Baayen] universal-cp: - Display the device presentation URL [Ross Burton] general: - Fix `make distcheck`. [Zeeshan Ali Khattak]

- Correct function prototype. Fixes #940. [Jorn Baayen] - Include the glib header to satisfy vala-gen-introspect. [Zeeshan Ali Khattak]

- Add tool for generating convenience C wrappers for GUPnP service definitions. [Ross Burton] - Remove xmlDoc argument from gupnp_root_device_new() for simplicity. (xmlDocs can still be passed to gupnp_root_device_new_full()) [Jorn Baayen] - Better documentation, new tutorials and sample code. [Ross Burton] - Improved support for Accept-Language header. [Jorn Baayen] - Various internal improvements. [Zeeshan Ali, Jorn Baayen]