# HG changeset patch # User Matti Hamalainen # Date 1208799528 -10800 # Node ID d9bdbb610452d2848828bbeece4e0eeb8b49d9b1 # Parent 9cd1dca94b2a4b95a1adf32607304035dbfcdfe4 Cosmetics: made the NEWS arguably more readable. diff -r 9cd1dca94b2a -r d9bdbb610452 NEWS --- a/NEWS Mon Apr 21 16:36:07 2008 +0300 +++ b/NEWS Mon Apr 21 20:38:48 2008 +0300 @@ -1,6 +1,22 @@ Audacious 1.5.0 (2008-03-13) +============================ +This is the last branch of Audacious that will support in Winamp2 skins +in core. We are working on a new default UI for Audacious2 which provides +a more metadata rich environment (while still be lightweight and fast). +However, it is planned to implement support for Winamp2 skins as a plugin in +the next version. No promises, though. -Enhancements: +It has been fun being seen as "rescuing XMMS" by the community; but this +has never been our goal. Our goal has always been to develop the best +possible player on Linux. This means that we are audiophiles, and we want +our audio to sound as nice as possible. This has been our primary goal; +not maintaining a Winamp2 skinned player. When we determined that the current +UI implementation was getting in our way, we decided to rip it out. As such, +the future of Winamp2 skins in Audacious is undefined, but they will probably +be supported via a plugin. + +Enhancements +------------ * Everything between 1.4.1 and 1.4.7. (duh) * Ability to disable GTK+ theme suggestions provided by skins. * Entirely from scratch audio engine (libSAD) which supports: @@ -30,30 +46,18 @@ * Faster jump-to-file. * Implement support for session management. -Bugfixes: +Bugfixes +-------- * playlist_compare_artist(): Avoid NULL dereferences. (Bugzilla #172, Bugzilla #168, Bugzilla #35). * Tons of memory leaks fixed. -Notes from us (the audacious developers): -This is the last branch of Audacious that will support in Winamp2 skins -in core. We are working on a new default UI for Audacious2 which provides -a more metadata rich environment (while still be lightweight and fast). -However, it is planned to implement support for Winamp2 skins as a plugin in -the next version. No promises, though. - -It has been fun being seen as "rescuing XMMS" by the community; but this -has never been our goal. Our goal has always been to develop the best -possible player on Linux. This means that we are audiophiles, and we want -our audio to sound as nice as possible. This has been our primary goal; -not maintaining a Winamp2 skinned player. When we determined that the current -UI implementation was getting in our way, we decided to rip it out. As such, -the future of Winamp2 skins in Audacious is undefined, but they will probably -be supported via a plugin. Audacious 1.4.1 (2007-11-17) +============================ -Enhancements: +Enhancements +------------ * The skin code has been tweaked a little to fix loading of more substandard winamp skins. (http://boards.nenolod.net/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=859) @@ -74,7 +78,8 @@ this way, and streams are entirely processed in background this way.) * Add codec and quality fields to MPRIS TrackInfo tuples sent over DBus. -Bugfixes: +Bugfixes +-------- * [Bugzilla #53]: UTF-8 validation gives false positives (Reported by Kosma Moczek; Fixed by Yoshiki Yazawa) * [Bugzilla #20]: status icon plugin breaks the 'always on top' feature @@ -91,13 +96,18 @@ * Fix misleading assertion notice triggers when a URI fails to load. * Cope with Winamp2 skins which do not have dashes in numbers.bmp. + Audacious 1.4.0 (2007-11-01) +============================ * Everything ;) + Audacious 1.3.0 (2007-03-02) +============================ Enhancements +------------ * The playlist code has been rewritten using conditional variables, which has resulted in speed improvements for the playlist code overall. * The behaviour for detecting filemagic has been redone and is now more @@ -137,10 +147,10 @@ instead of blindly pushing data down a potentially undefined pipeline. * Audacious now uses GOption to parse the commandline. -Bugfixes: +Bugfixes +-------- * Too many to count. -*** See http://audacious-media-player.org/1.3_Release for more information. *** Audacious 1.2.1 (2006-10-23)