Banshee Changelog

What's new in Banshee 2.9.1 Dev

• NEW FEATURES:
• GStreamer 1.x compatibility:
• This is the first official upstream release compatible with versions of GStreamer 1.0 or newer.
• Production-ready GStreamerSharp playback-engine backend, now default:
• Our managed backend (that already allowed us to have playback working in the Windows platform) has been migrated to work with the revamped GStreamerSharp bindings (GObject-Introspection based, and capable of binding GStreamer 1.0 or newer) and is now the default one for all platforms.
• This paves the way to finish the long-standing goal of completely removing lower-level languages like C from our codebase, to lower the barrier of entry to new contributors, reduce complexity and increase stability.
• You can still use the optional unmanaged GStreamer backend, but before doing so we encourage you to provide us any feedback that you may have about the managed one (reporting bugs or writing to our forums or mailing lists), because we will deprecate this one very soon.
• New "MediaPanel" UI, formerly called "MeeGo MediaPanel":
• The MeeGo specific UI has been now been renamed to MediaPanel and you can use it in your desktop environment now, just by clicking in the Media Panel option under the View menu (this extension is now enabled by default).
• ENHANCEMENTS:
• Notifications: use notify-sharp-3.0 in the system if available
• bgo#690010: enable tests by default if NUnit dependency is found
• WebBrowser: drop dependency on 'libsoup-gnome', which was deprecated
• Video: default smart playlists are now invisible when empty, like Music ones
• NOTABLE BUGS FIXED (35 FIXED SINCE 2.9.0):
• bgo#692374: require dbus-glib-1 to make sure to avoid GConf crashes
• bgo#725870: avoid hang when disconnecting Nexus 5
• bgo#724635: don't crash at iPod sync
• bgo#726336: avoid redundancy in submenu label text
• bgo#725185: avoid importing non-readable files
• bgo#696520: avoid pointless long->int runtime casts
• DBus: don't try to connect in GrabDefaultName() if dbus is disabled
• bgo#724730: avoid aborting MTP access when busy
• bgo#724678: tracks which were in nested folders under Music/ not shown
• bgo#724656: fix potential crashers when ejecting DAP source
• bgo#724645: fix crash at shutdown if MTP was mounted
• bgo#627391: [gapless] fix smooth transition for Repeat-Single mode
• bgo#671221: fix Repeat-All mode if there are less than 3 tracks and Shuffle is ON
• bgo#724515: fix Repeat-OFF mode when Shuffle is ON
• bgo#723889: avoid notifications-related warning printed in the log
• bgo#723040: DapService: avoid freezing Banshee when unmapping device
• bgo#679938: [gapless] Repeat always on
• bgo#674293: [gapless] Banshee ignores "stop when finished"
• bgo#621222: [gapless] Playcount shouldn't be incremented as soon as song plays
• bgo#723005: fix path of image referenced in Help
• bgo#722731: avoid highlighting wrong track after invalid track was played
• bgo#636992: avoid misleading [gapless] token in log
• bgo#722565: advice about nunit-console not available instead of failing
• bgo#720359: avoid 'URI too large' errors at LastFM scrobbling
• bgo#722947: prevent a crash when dealing with Nexus4
• bgo#722209: avoid crash when connecting Nexus4
• bgo#722219: avoid crash when disconnecting Nexus4
• bgo#664887: fail faster if --enable-tests used and NUnit was not found
• bgo#721203: CD audio source doesn't show up when inserting it
• bgo#712656: pkg-config files were still pointing to GTK2 instead of GTK3
• bgo#710266: PlayQueue: fix another GtkCRITICAL at shutdown
• bgo#710423: Fix build of the SoundMenu extension
• bgo#710475: fix build in Osx by avoiding optional parameters
• bgo#710266: avoid GtkCRITICAL in the console at shutdown
• bgo#709717: fix ListView scrolling with mouse wheel (regression from GTK2)