--- linuxsampler/trunk/ChangeLog 2007/08/13 20:05:56 1295 +++ linuxsampler/trunk/ChangeLog 2007/12/02 19:07:17 1534 @@ -1,6 +1,51 @@ Version CVS HEAD (?) * packaging changes: + - added autoconf checks for pthread library + - added autoconf check for pthread bug found on certain NPTL-enabled + glibc versions (see Gentoo bug report #194076) + - added autoconf checks for MS Windows + + * general changes: + - bugfix: the thread used by an editor plugin didn't die when the + editor closed + - bugfix: Ringbuffer.h: fill_write_space_with_null() did not zero + out all the space. operator--() did not apply size_mask after + decrementing the read_ptr. DEFAULT_WRAP_ELEMENTS set to 0 in + order to avoid problems with the _NonVolatileReader functions. + - bugfix: Stream.h: added a missing divide by BytesPerSample in + GetWriteSpace(). Since this function is currently only used in + the stream's qsort() compare function, it didn't trigger any + bugs. + - Resampler.h, Synthesizer.h: cubic interpolation now works in + 24bit mode too. Faster method to read 24bit words on little + endian machines (x86): replaced 3 byte reads + shifts with a 1 + unaligned 32bit read and shift + - experimental support for MS Windows (MIDI input via MME, AUDIO + output via ASIO) + - made handling of SIGINT signal (Ctrl-C) a bit more robust + + * AUDIO driver: + - added Windows ASIO low latency audio driver + + * MIDI driver: + - added MME Windows MIDI driver + + * LSCP server: + - added support for Windows style path / filenames, however with + forward slash path separators instead of backslash + (i.e. "C:/foo/bar.gig") + - allow naughty liblscp to send non-string device parameters within + apostrophes as well + - added new LSCP commands: "GET FILE INSTRUMENTS ", + "LIST FILE INSTRUMENTS " and + "GET FILE INSTRUMENT INFO " for retrieving informations + about an arbitrary instrument file on the system where the sampler is + running on + +Version 0.5.0 (15 October 2007) + + * packaging changes: - config.h is not going to be installed along with liblinuxsampler's API header files anymore - only the API relevant header (and source) files will be exported to @@ -9,6 +54,14 @@ capable to execute our autoconf environment, thus no need anymore to maintain the compile time configuration file (osx/version.h) for OSX manually (patch by Toshi Nagata) + - fixed buggy boolean --enable-foo / --disable-foo configure script + parameters + - global.h now only covers global definitions that are needed for the + C++ API header files, all implementation internal global definitions + are now in global_private.h + - atomic.h is not exposed to the C++ API anymore + - no need to include config.h anymore for using LS's API header files + - fixed warnings in API doc generation * general changes: - replaced the old, confusing MIDI program change mechanism by a @@ -41,13 +94,19 @@ - fixed compilation errors regarding OSX (patch by Toshi Nagata) - implemented instruments database + - added support for escape sequences to the instruments database - added highly experimental support for on-the-fly instrument editing within the sampler's process (by using instrument editor plugins), you'll notice the new "Registered instrument editors:" message on - startup, added a new LSCP command "EDIT INSTRUMENT " + startup, added a new LSCP command: + "EDIT CHANNEL INSTRUMENT " to spawn a matching instrument editor for the instrument on the given sampler channel, the plugin path can be overridden at compile time with ./configure --enable-plugin-dir=/some/dir + - added experimental code for synchronizing instrument editors hosted + in the sampler's process to safely edit instruments while playing + without a crash (hopefully) by either suspending single regions + wherever possible or if unavoidable whole engine(s) - fixed several issues in fundamental "Thread" class: set scheduling policy and priority on thread level, set a minimum stack size for thread (TODO: a reasonable value yet to be tested), bugfix: non-RT @@ -59,6 +118,9 @@ - fixed some minor memory leaks - reenabled assembly features support, at the moment only for enabling a fast denormal FPU mode (x86 platforms supporting SSE2) + - minor assembly fix in x86 features detection (don't use the PIC + register, to avoid relocations in the text segment at runtime) + - POSIX callback functions of Thread.h are hidden * MIDI driver: - dispatch bank select (MSB and LSB) messages @@ -86,6 +148,11 @@ - minor fix of EGDecay (patch by Toshi Nagata) - fixed compiler error when --enable-override-filter-type was supplied to the configure script (fixes #46) + - disk thread: queue sizes are now proportional to CONFIG_MAX_STREAMS + instead of a fix value + - behavior fix: on MIDI CC# 65 (portamento on / off), 126 (mono mode), + 127 (solo mode) only kill voices if the respective mode really + changed * LSCP server: - fixed compile time error for old Bison versions @@ -96,9 +163,22 @@ sequences, that is directly literal as one of: \', \", \\, \n, \r, \f, \t, \v, or as octal ASCII code value like \132, or as hex ASCII code value like \xf2) (fixes bug #24) + - the following LSCP commands now also support escape sequences for at + least one of their text-based parameters (i.e. name, description): + "ADD MIDI_INSTRUMENT_MAP", "MAP MIDI_INSTRUMENT", + "SET MIDI_INSTRUMENT_MAP NAME", "SET FX_SEND NAME", "CREATE FX_SEND", + "SET DB_INSTRUMENT_DIRECTORY NAME", + "SET DB_INSTRUMENT_DIRECTORY DESCRIPTION", "SET DB_INSTRUMENT NAME", + "SET DB_INSTRUMENT DESCRIPTION", "FIND DB_INSTRUMENTS", + "FIND DB_INSTRUMENT_DIRECTORIES" - returns verbose syntax errors (line and column where syntax error occured, the unexpected character and the actually expected, possible character(s), the latter only if less than 5 possibilities) + - made sure that LSCP syntax is not affected by gigedit locale + settings + - bugfix regarding strings parameter lists: all comma separated lists + of strings were treated as being one string containing commas + (fixes #57) * Bug fixes: - fixed crash occurring on certain LSCP scripts (Bug 39) @@ -109,6 +189,17 @@ - fixed a crash which occurs when changing the number of ports of a MIDI device connected to a sampler channel to number less then or equal to the index of the port to which the sampler channel is connected. + - The previous bindings were not been disconnected when altering + the ALSA_SEQ_BINDINGS parameter. Introduced a NONE keyword for + unsubscribing from all bindings (e.g. ALSA_SEQ_BINDINGS=NONE). + - The active stream/voice count statistic was incorrect. + - notification events were not been sent for some sampler + channel changes + - added default min and max values to restrict the number of allowed + audio output channels and MIDI input ports + - the connection to the PCM interface is now closed when destroying + an audio output device + - files with slash in their path or filename could not be loaded * test cases: - updated and fixed (haven't been touched in a while)