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4  ChangeLog  ChangeLog
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6  CVS HEAD  
7    GIT HEAD
8    
9    - Bumped copyright headers into the New Year (2019).
10    
11    
12    0.5.3  2018-12-06  An End of Autumn'18 Release.
13    
14    - Avoid saving plug-in sampler channels and related devices
15      to regular LSCP (*.lscp) session files.
16    
17    - Fixed MIDI and Audio device selection on the common sampler
18      channel settings dialog.
19    
20    - Old deprecated Qt4 build support is no more.
21    
22    - AppStream metadata updated to be the most compliant with
23      latest freedesktop.org specification and recommendation.
24    
25    
26    0.5.2  2018-07-22  A Summer'18 Release.
27    
28    - AppData/AppStream metadata is now settled under an all
29      permisssive license (FSFAP).
30    
31    
32    0.5.1  2018-05-21  Pre-LAC2018 release frenzy.
33    
34    - Disable singleton/unique application instance setup logic
35      when the display server platform is not X11.
36    
37    - Fixed device management dialog not responding to user changes.
38    
39    - A little hardening on the configure (autoconf) macro side.
40    
41    - Fixed minor memory leak in device management dialog.
42    
43    - Fixed unnecessary latency when closing app.
44    
45    
46    0.5.0  2017-12-12  An Autumn'17 release.
47    
48    - French (fr) translation added by Olivier Humbert
49      (qsampler_fr.ts).
50    
51    - Desktop entry specification file is now finally independent
52      from build/configure template chains.
53    
54    - Updated target path for freedesktop.org's AppStream metainfo
55      file (formerly AppData).
56    
57    
58    0.4.3  2017-04-27  Pre-LAC2017 release frenzy.
59    
60    - Added French man page (by Olivier Humbert, thanks).
61    
62    - Make builds reproducible byte for byte, by getting rid of
63      the configure build date and time stamps.
64    
65    
66    0.4.2  2016-11-14  A Fall'16 release.
67    
68    * Fixed a potential crash on the singleton/unique application
69      instance setup.
70    
71    * Almost complete overhaul on the configure script command
72      line options, wrt. installation directories specification,
73      eg. --prefix, --bindir, --libdir, --datadir and --mandir.
74    
75    
76    0.4.1  2016-09-14  End of Summer'16 release.
77    
78    * Fixed a race condition on creating sampler channels that ended
79      in duplicate channel strips; also fixed channel auto-arrange.
80      
81    * Dropped the --enable-qt5 from configure as found redundant
82      given that's the build default anyway (suggestion by Guido
83      Scholz, while for Qtractor, thanks).
84    
85    * Automake: set environment variable GCC_COLORS=auto to allow GCC to
86      auto detect whether it (sh/c)ould output its messages in color.
87    
88    
89    0.4.0  2016-04-05  Spring'16 release frenzy.
90    
91    * Added application keywords to freedesktop.org's AppData.
92    
93    * Prevent x11extras module from use on non-X11/Unix plaforms.
94    
95    * Messages standard output capture has been improved again, now
96      in both ways a non-blocking pipe may get.
97    
98    * Single/unique application instance control adapted to Qt5/X11.
99    
100    
101    0.3.1  2015-07-19  Summer'15 release frenzy.
102    
103    * Fixed configure script's Qt include directory lookup for some
104      64bit Linux flavours.
105    
106    * Prefer Qt5 over Qt4 by default with configure script.
107    
108    * A new top-level widget window geometry state save and restore
109      sub-routine is now in effect.
110    
111    * Fixed for some strict tests for Qt4 vs. Qt5 configure builds.
112    
113    
114    0.3.0  2015-03-25  Pre-LAC2015 release frenzy.
115    
116    * Added application description as freedesktop.org's AppData.
117    
118    * Added this "Don't ask/show this again" option to some if not most
119      of the nagging warning/error message boxes.
120    
121    * Mac OS X: Fixed default path of linuxsampler binary.
122    
123    * When closing qsampler and showing the user the dialog whether to
124      stop the LinuxSampler backend, set the default selection to "Yes".
125    
126    * Master volume slider now getting proper layout when changing its
127      main toolbar orientation.
128    
129    * Messages standard output capture has been slightly improved
130      as for non-blocking i/o, whenever available.
131    
132    * Adjusted configure check for libgig to detect the new --includedir.
133    
134    * A man page has beed added (making up Matt Flax's work on
135      debian, thanks).
136    
137    * Translations install directory change.
138    
139    * Added support for SF2 instrument names/preset enumeration.
140    
141    * Added instrument list popup on channel strip which shows up when
142      the instrument name is clicked. Allows faster switching among
143      instruments of the same file.
144    
145    * Adjusted configure check for libgig to detect its new --libdir
146      (impolitely forcing the user now to have at least libgig 3.3.0).
147    
148    
149    0.2.3  2013-12-31  A fifth of a Jubilee.
150    
151    * Allow the build system to include an user specified LDFLAGS.
152    
153    * More preparations for Qt5 configure build.
154    
155    * Standard scalable format (SVG) and MIME type icons support for
156      session files (*.lscp) is now being added.
157    
158    * Preparations for Qt5 migration.
159    
160    * Added include <unistd.h> to shut up gcc 4.7 build failures.
161    
162    * Make(ing) -jN parallel builds now available for the masses.
163    
164    * Fixed Makefile.in handling of installation directories to the
165      configure script eg. --datadir, --localedir.
166    
167    * Made lookup of translation files work inside a Mac OS X bundle.
168    
169    * Minor Mac OS X compilation error fix.
170    
171    * Debugging stacktrace now applies to all working threads.
172    
173    * Made lookup of translation files more robust on Windows.
174    
175    * Fixes for cross compiling and building for Windows with configure
176      and make.
177    
178    * libX11 is now being added explicitly to the build link phase,
179      as seen necessary on some bleeding-edge distros eg. Fedora 13,
180      Debian 6.
181    
182    * Moving from old deprecated Qt3'ish custom event post handling
183      into regular asynchronous signal/slot strategy.
184    
185    * Sampler channel and instrument file requester support for
186      other than GIG engine instrument files (*gig; *.dls) has
187      been added, making roads for the newer SFZ and SF2 engines
188      instrument files (*.sfz; *.sf2).
189    
190    * General standard dialog buttons layout is now in place.
191    
192    * Initial widget geometry and visibility persistence logic has
193      been slightly revised as much to avoid crash failures due to
194      wrong main widget hidden state.
195    
196    * General source tree layout and build configuration change.
197    
198    * Automatic crash-dump reports, debugger stack-traces (gdb), back-
199      traces, whatever, are being introduced as a brand new configure
200      option (--enable-stacktrace) and default enabled on debug build
201      targets (--enable-debug).
202    
203    * Attempt to fix broken instrument list model/view on Qt >= 4.6.
204    
205    * Device parameter spin-box default maximum has been set higher:
206      now at a magic 24-bit limit (16777216) instead of older 16-bit
207      (65536), possibly fixing bug #136.
208    
209    * LADISH Level 1 support has been added: SIGUSR1 signal trap
210      just makes it a shortcut to File/Save.
211    
212    * MIDI Device Status menu is disabled when no MIDI device exists;
213      a menu separator has been added.
214    
215    * Window manager's close button was found missing from the Devices
216      and Instruments widgets when on Qt >= 4.5, now fixed.
217    
218    * MIDI activity indicator on channel strips and MIDI device status
219      widgets is now implemented as a flashing green LED, instead of a
220      lame green solid background :).
221    
222    * Global configuration state is now explicitly saved/committed to
223      disk when View/Options... dialog changes are accepted and applied.
224    
225    * Czech (cs) translation added (by Pavel Fric).
226    
227    
228    0.2.2  2009-08-01  New release cycle.
229    
230    * Russian (qsampler_ru.ts by Alexandre Prokoudine) makes it as
231      brand first translation delivered. Thanks and welcomes whom
232      ever may follow ;)
233    
234    * Converted obsolete QMessageBox forms to standard buttons.
235    
236    * Added support for runtime max. voices / disk streams setting
237      (accessible from the "Options..." dialog). Those fine tuning
238      settings will be saved in case the user modified them and
239      automatically restored to the sampler when reconnecting to
240      a sampler the next time.
241    
242    * Grayed/disabled palette color group fix for dark color themes.
243    
244    * Fait-divers: desktop menu file touched to openSUSE conventions.
245    
246    * Due to some trouble with newer Qt >= 4.4 applications regarding
247      font size configuration, a new global user option is now available
248      to the rescue: View/Options... /Display/Other/Base font size
249      (default none).
250    
251    * Attempt to load Qt's own translation support and get rid of
252      the ever warning startup message, unless built in debug mode.
253      (transaction by Guido Scholz, while on qsynth-devel, thanks).
254    
255    * Only one application instance is now allowed to be up and
256      running, with immediate but graceful termination upon startup
257      iif an already running instance is detected, which will see its
258      main widget shown up automatically (Qt/X11 platform only).
259    
260    * Messages file logging makes its first long overdue appearance,
261      with user configurable settings in View/Options.../Server/Logging.
262    
263    * Bugfix in sampler channel dialog, driver combo boxes' content were
264      screwed.
265    
266    * Automatically add & remove channel strips as they were removed
267      e.g. by other frontends.
268    
269    * Refresh device management dialog when device informations changed,
270      e.g. on changes caused by other frontends
271      (fixes segfault on device changes)
272    
273    * Implemented MIDI device activity windows, selectable from the
274      "View" main menu.
275    
276    * Implemented MIDI activity indicator on channel strips.
277    
278    * Added FX Sends Dialog to Channel Strips.
279    
280    * Color pallete fix for the instrument name display in channel
281      strip, particularly notorious on Mac OS X builds.
282    
283    * Added dialog when the application exits which lets the user
284      decide whether to keep the LinuxSampler running or not.
285    
286    
287    0.2.1  2007-12-06  Qt4 migration was complete.
288    
289    * Added recent new support of libgig for retrieving instrument
290      names in avery fast way. If libgig provides this feature, then
291      the respective name retrieval setting in qsampler is enabled by
292      default.
293    
294    * The current selected/activated channel-strip is now visually
295      evident while in the application workspace (highlighting).
296    
297    * Make View/Menubar and Toolbar shortcuts accessible even though
298      the main menu and toobar are not visible.
299    
300    * Audio routing table is initially hidden in the dialog, when
301      creating a new sampler channel.
302    
303    * README requirements and configuration notes update.
304    
305    * Disable OK button in sampler channel form and MIDI instrument
306      form if no valid engine is selected (to avoid bothering newbie
307      users with confusing LSCP syntax errors when using the UI the
308      first time).
309    
310    * Fixed creation of devices (don't try to set device parameters
311      which the user did not touch in the device creation dialog).
312    
313    * Added Windows file path support.
314    
315    * Fixed win32/qmakefile and win32/config.h so that it compiles
316      under win32.
317    
318    * Qt4 port of the application.
319    
320    
321    0.1.5  2007-10-15 Five months later a fifth is heard.
322    
323    * Added support for LSCP escape sequences to allow loading and
324      mapping instrument files with special characters in their
325      filename, as well as special characters for instrument names
326      and instrument map names (requires LSCP v1.2 on sampler side).
327    
328    * Added new button "Edit" to the channel strips, which probably
329      does exactly what you think it does: it opens an appropriate
330      instrument editor application; the channel instrument editor
331      tool is also accessible from the main menu and toolbar.
332    
333    * Application icon is now installed to ${prefix}/share/pixmaps;
334      application desktop entry file is now included in installation;
335      spec file (RPM) is now a bit more openSUSE compliant.
336    
337    * Crash fix on double-clicking on a empty instrument list.
338    
339    
340    0.1.4  2007-05-04 Almost another year has gone by.
341    
342    * Channel button colors have changed: yellow for mute and
343      cyan for solo is now the rule, but note that this color
344      highlighting is only rendered on some widget styles.
345    
346    * Master sampler volume slider/spinbox combo is now featured.
347    
348    * Initial support for sampler channel FX sends, while saving
349      the session state, only at code-level.
350    
351    * Sampler channel setup dialog does not mandate for valid nor
352      existing instrument file name.
353    
354    * Revised error verbosity in general and on session load/save;
355      hour-glass wait cursor is now displayed on session load/save;
356      keyboard shortcuts changed on MIDI instruments view context;
357      improved channel strip arrangement on session open/load;
358      instrument map entry removal confirmation (as optional);
359      corrected some tooltip text strings.
360    
361    * Most top-level widgets were missing the normal-widget flag,
362      which were causing some sticky size behavior while on some
363      window managers.
364    
365    * Added preliminary MIDI instrument mapping support; now
366      with an instrument list widget and editing capabilities;
367      MIDI instrumeent map program numbers are now displayed in
368      the range 1-128, instead of the internal 0-127.
369    
370    * GPL address update.
371    
372    
373    0.1.3   2006-06-01 Its been a long year isn't it?
374    
375    * Changed deprecated copyright attribute to license,
376      on qsampler.spec (RPM).
377    
378    * Added configure support for x86_64 libraries (UNTESTED).
379    
380    * Optional specification of alternate liblscp and libgig
381      installation paths have been added to configure command
382      arguments (--with-liblscp, --with-libgig).
383    
384    * Whenever the listing of actual instrument names is not an
385      option (e.g. due to lack of libgig support), the whole
386      number of selectable instrument items is now being graciously
387      increased from just the bare 8 (eight) right up through 100
388      (one hundred), on the sampler channel setup dialog.
389    
390    * The selection buttons, on the right of the Instrument, Audio
391      and MIDI devices combo-boxes, on the sampler channel dialog,
392      are now expected to be a little better looking than it was
393      before, at least for those Mac OS X eyes.
394    
395    * Minor fixing on the initial messages dock-window height.
396    
397    * Audio output channel routing configuration finally hits
398      the sampler channel dialog, at last!
399    
400    * All widget captions changed to include proper application
401      title name prefix.
402    
403  * Attempt to bring those aging autoconf templates to date;  * Attempt to bring those aging autoconf templates to date;
404    sample SPEC file for RPM build is now being included and    sample SPEC file for RPM build is now being included and
405    generated at configure time.    generated at configure time.
406    
407  * Set to use QApplication::setMainWidget() instead of  * Set to use QApplication::setMainWidget() instead of
408    registering the traditional lastWindowClosed() signal    registering the traditional lastWindowClosed() signal
409    to quit() slot, just to let the -geometry command line    to quit() slot, just to let the -geometry command line
410    argument have some effect on X11.    argument have some effect on X11.
411    
412  * Added MUTE/SOLO buttons to individual channel strips.  * Added MUTE/SOLO buttons to individual channel strips.
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417    
418  0.1.2   2005-06-23 Even minor workings needs a rest.  0.1.2   2005-06-23 Even minor workings needs a rest.
419    
420  * Fixed output disability when messages limit option is  * Fixed output disability when messages limit option is
421    turned off (thanks to Wolfgang Woehl for spotting this    turned off (thanks to Wolfgang Woehl for spotting this
422    one, while on qjackctl).    one, while on qjackctl).
423    
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448    
449  0.1.0   2005-05-23  Device configuration breakthrough.  0.1.0   2005-05-23  Device configuration breakthrough.
450    
451  * Device configuration is now complete (EXPERIMENTAL).  * Device configuration is now complete.
452    
453  * [bug #9] Fixed for a LSCP command syntax convention  * [bug #9] Fixed for a LSCP command syntax convention
454    consistency, regarding the enumeration of available    consistency, regarding the enumeration of available
455    sampler engines, Audio and MIDI drivers.    sampler engines, Audio and MIDI drivers.
456    
457  * [bug #13] Update instrument names list when a new  * [bug #13] Update instrument names list when a new
458    instrument file is select on the channel setup dialog.    instrument file is select on the channel setup dialog.
459    
460  * Show appropriate message in channel strip while loading  * Show appropriate message in channel strip while loading
461    an instrument.    an instrument.
462    
463  * Show libgig version in About box (in case libgig is used).  * Show libgig version in About box (in case libgig is used).
464    
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488    drop is allowed, but it only makes sense for instrument    drop is allowed, but it only makes sense for instrument
489    files, each one prompting to create a new sampler channel.    files, each one prompting to create a new sampler channel.
490    
491  * Drag-and-drop to an existing channel strip is now also  * Drag-and-drop to an existing channel strip is now also
492    featured, allowing the in-place change of the channel    featured, allowing the in-place change of the channel
493    sampler instrument file.    sampler instrument file.
494    
495  * Actual instrument names are now optionally retrieved  * Actual instrument names are now optionally retrieved

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