--- qsampler/trunk/ChangeLog 2007/01/08 22:04:33 1016 +++ qsampler/trunk/ChangeLog 2019/12/22 13:47:40 3668 @@ -1,13 +1,405 @@ Qsampler - A LinuxSampler Qt GUI Interface ------------------------------------------- +~------------------------------------------ ChangeLog -CVS HEAD + +GIT HEAD + +- Custom color (palette) theme editor introduced; color + (palette) theme changes are now effective immediately, + except on default. (EXPERIMENTAL) + +- Second attempt to fix the yet non-official though + CMake build configuration. (EXPERIMENTAL) + +- When using autotools and ./configure --with-qt=..., + it is also necessary to adjust the PKG_CONFIG_PATH + environment variable (after a merge request by plcl + aka. Pedro López-Cabanillas, while on qmidinet, + thanks). (EXPERIMENTAL) + +- Fixed crash when a device disappeared on server side + (caused by iterator invalidation). + +- If connection to server aborted, try to automatically + reconnect (if server was not started by QSampler). + + +0.6.0 2019-10-17 An Autumn'19 Release. + +- Added alternate yet non-official CMake build option. + +- Fix HiDPI display screen effective support (Qt >= 5.6). + +- Make sure compiler flags comply to c++11 as standard. + + +0.5.6 2019-07-12 A Summer'19 Release. + +- Updated for the newer Qt5 translation tools (>= 5.13). + +- Configure updated to check for qtchooser availability. + +- Minor update to Debian packaging control file. + + +0.5.5 2019-04-11 A Spring-Break'19 Release. + +- Re-defined all main application UNIX signal handling. + + +0.5.4 2019-03-11 Pre-LAC2019 Release Frenzy. + +- Refactored all singleton/unique application instance + setup logic away from X11/Xcb hackery. + +- HiDPI display screen support (Qt >= 5.6). + +- Bumped copyright headers into the New Year (2019). + + +0.5.3 2018-12-06 An End of Autumn'18 Release. + +- Avoid saving plug-in sampler channels and related devices + to regular LSCP (*.lscp) session files. + +- Fixed MIDI and Audio device selection on the common sampler + channel settings dialog. + +- Old deprecated Qt4 build support is no more. + +- AppStream metadata updated to be the most compliant with + latest freedesktop.org specification and recommendation. + + +0.5.2 2018-07-22 A Summer'18 Release. + +- AppData/AppStream metadata is now settled under an all + permisssive license (FSFAP). + + +0.5.1 2018-05-21 Pre-LAC2018 release frenzy. + +- Disable singleton/unique application instance setup logic + when the display server platform is not X11. + +- Fixed device management dialog not responding to user changes. + +- A little hardening on the configure (autoconf) macro side. + +- Fixed minor memory leak in device management dialog. + +- Fixed unnecessary latency when closing app. + + +0.5.0 2017-12-12 An Autumn'17 release. + +- French (fr) translation added by Olivier Humbert + (qsampler_fr.ts). + +- Desktop entry specification file is now finally independent + from build/configure template chains. + +- Updated target path for freedesktop.org's AppStream metainfo + file (formerly AppData). + + +0.4.3 2017-04-27 Pre-LAC2017 release frenzy. + +- Added French man page (by Olivier Humbert, thanks). + +- Make builds reproducible byte for byte, by getting rid of + the configure build date and time stamps. + + +0.4.2 2016-11-14 A Fall'16 release. + +* Fixed a potential crash on the singleton/unique application + instance setup. + +* Almost complete overhaul on the configure script command + line options, wrt. installation directories specification, + eg. --prefix, --bindir, --libdir, --datadir and --mandir. + + +0.4.1 2016-09-14 End of Summer'16 release. + +* Fixed a race condition on creating sampler channels that ended + in duplicate channel strips; also fixed channel auto-arrange. + +* Dropped the --enable-qt5 from configure as found redundant + given that's the build default anyway (suggestion by Guido + Scholz, while for Qtractor, thanks). + +* Automake: set environment variable GCC_COLORS=auto to allow GCC to + auto detect whether it (sh/c)ould output its messages in color. + + +0.4.0 2016-04-05 Spring'16 release frenzy. + +* Added application keywords to freedesktop.org's AppData. + +* Prevent x11extras module from use on non-X11/Unix plaforms. + +* Messages standard output capture has been improved again, now + in both ways a non-blocking pipe may get. + +* Single/unique application instance control adapted to Qt5/X11. + + +0.3.1 2015-07-19 Summer'15 release frenzy. + +* Fixed configure script's Qt include directory lookup for some + 64bit Linux flavours. + +* Prefer Qt5 over Qt4 by default with configure script. + +* A new top-level widget window geometry state save and restore + sub-routine is now in effect. + +* Fixed for some strict tests for Qt4 vs. Qt5 configure builds. + + +0.3.0 2015-03-25 Pre-LAC2015 release frenzy. + +* Added application description as freedesktop.org's AppData. + +* Added this "Don't ask/show this again" option to some if not most + of the nagging warning/error message boxes. + +* Mac OS X: Fixed default path of linuxsampler binary. + +* When closing qsampler and showing the user the dialog whether to + stop the LinuxSampler backend, set the default selection to "Yes". + +* Master volume slider now getting proper layout when changing its + main toolbar orientation. + +* Messages standard output capture has been slightly improved + as for non-blocking i/o, whenever available. + +* Adjusted configure check for libgig to detect the new --includedir. + +* A man page has beed added (making up Matt Flax's work on + debian, thanks). + +* Translations install directory change. + +* Added support for SF2 instrument names/preset enumeration. + +* Added instrument list popup on channel strip which shows up when + the instrument name is clicked. Allows faster switching among + instruments of the same file. + +* Adjusted configure check for libgig to detect its new --libdir + (impolitely forcing the user now to have at least libgig 3.3.0). + + +0.2.3 2013-12-31 A fifth of a Jubilee. + +* Allow the build system to include an user specified LDFLAGS. + +* More preparations for Qt5 configure build. + +* Standard scalable format (SVG) and MIME type icons support for + session files (*.lscp) is now being added. + +* Preparations for Qt5 migration. + +* Added include to shut up gcc 4.7 build failures. + +* Make(ing) -jN parallel builds now available for the masses. + +* Fixed Makefile.in handling of installation directories to the + configure script eg. --datadir, --localedir. + +* Made lookup of translation files work inside a Mac OS X bundle. + +* Minor Mac OS X compilation error fix. + +* Debugging stacktrace now applies to all working threads. + +* Made lookup of translation files more robust on Windows. + +* Fixes for cross compiling and building for Windows with configure + and make. + +* libX11 is now being added explicitly to the build link phase, + as seen necessary on some bleeding-edge distros eg. Fedora 13, + Debian 6. + +* Moving from old deprecated Qt3'ish custom event post handling + into regular asynchronous signal/slot strategy. + +* Sampler channel and instrument file requester support for + other than GIG engine instrument files (*gig; *.dls) has + been added, making roads for the newer SFZ and SF2 engines + instrument files (*.sfz; *.sf2). + +* General standard dialog buttons layout is now in place. + +* Initial widget geometry and visibility persistence logic has + been slightly revised as much to avoid crash failures due to + wrong main widget hidden state. + +* General source tree layout and build configuration change. + +* Automatic crash-dump reports, debugger stack-traces (gdb), back- + traces, whatever, are being introduced as a brand new configure + option (--enable-stacktrace) and default enabled on debug build + targets (--enable-debug). + +* Attempt to fix broken instrument list model/view on Qt >= 4.6. + +* Device parameter spin-box default maximum has been set higher: + now at a magic 24-bit limit (16777216) instead of older 16-bit + (65536), possibly fixing bug #136. + +* LADISH Level 1 support has been added: SIGUSR1 signal trap + just makes it a shortcut to File/Save. + +* MIDI Device Status menu is disabled when no MIDI device exists; + a menu separator has been added. + +* Window manager's close button was found missing from the Devices + and Instruments widgets when on Qt >= 4.5, now fixed. + +* MIDI activity indicator on channel strips and MIDI device status + widgets is now implemented as a flashing green LED, instead of a + lame green solid background :). + +* Global configuration state is now explicitly saved/committed to + disk when View/Options... dialog changes are accepted and applied. + +* Czech (cs) translation added (by Pavel Fric). + + +0.2.2 2009-08-01 New release cycle. + +* Russian (qsampler_ru.ts by Alexandre Prokoudine) makes it as + brand first translation delivered. Thanks and welcomes whom + ever may follow ;) + +* Converted obsolete QMessageBox forms to standard buttons. + +* Added support for runtime max. voices / disk streams setting + (accessible from the "Options..." dialog). Those fine tuning + settings will be saved in case the user modified them and + automatically restored to the sampler when reconnecting to + a sampler the next time. + +* Grayed/disabled palette color group fix for dark color themes. + +* Fait-divers: desktop menu file touched to openSUSE conventions. + +* Due to some trouble with newer Qt >= 4.4 applications regarding + font size configuration, a new global user option is now available + to the rescue: View/Options... /Display/Other/Base font size + (default none). + +* Attempt to load Qt's own translation support and get rid of + the ever warning startup message, unless built in debug mode. + (transaction by Guido Scholz, while on qsynth-devel, thanks). + +* Only one application instance is now allowed to be up and + running, with immediate but graceful termination upon startup + iif an already running instance is detected, which will see its + main widget shown up automatically (Qt/X11 platform only). + +* Messages file logging makes its first long overdue appearance, + with user configurable settings in View/Options.../Server/Logging. + +* Bugfix in sampler channel dialog, driver combo boxes' content were + screwed. + +* Automatically add & remove channel strips as they were removed + e.g. by other frontends. + +* Refresh device management dialog when device informations changed, + e.g. on changes caused by other frontends + (fixes segfault on device changes) + +* Implemented MIDI device activity windows, selectable from the + "View" main menu. + +* Implemented MIDI activity indicator on channel strips. + +* Added FX Sends Dialog to Channel Strips. + +* Color pallete fix for the instrument name display in channel + strip, particularly notorious on Mac OS X builds. + +* Added dialog when the application exits which lets the user + decide whether to keep the LinuxSampler running or not. + + +0.2.1 2007-12-06 Qt4 migration was complete. + +* Added recent new support of libgig for retrieving instrument + names in avery fast way. If libgig provides this feature, then + the respective name retrieval setting in qsampler is enabled by + default. + +* The current selected/activated channel-strip is now visually + evident while in the application workspace (highlighting). + +* Make View/Menubar and Toolbar shortcuts accessible even though + the main menu and toobar are not visible. + +* Audio routing table is initially hidden in the dialog, when + creating a new sampler channel. + +* README requirements and configuration notes update. + +* Disable OK button in sampler channel form and MIDI instrument + form if no valid engine is selected (to avoid bothering newbie + users with confusing LSCP syntax errors when using the UI the + first time). + +* Fixed creation of devices (don't try to set device parameters + which the user did not touch in the device creation dialog). + +* Added Windows file path support. + +* Fixed win32/qmakefile and win32/config.h so that it compiles + under win32. + +* Qt4 port of the application. + + +0.1.5 2007-10-15 Five months later a fifth is heard. + +* Added support for LSCP escape sequences to allow loading and + mapping instrument files with special characters in their + filename, as well as special characters for instrument names + and instrument map names (requires LSCP v1.2 on sampler side). + +* Added new button "Edit" to the channel strips, which probably + does exactly what you think it does: it opens an appropriate + instrument editor application; the channel instrument editor + tool is also accessible from the main menu and toolbar. + +* Application icon is now installed to ${prefix}/share/pixmaps; + application desktop entry file is now included in installation; + spec file (RPM) is now a bit more openSUSE compliant. + +* Crash fix on double-clicking on a empty instrument list. + + +0.1.4 2007-05-04 Almost another year has gone by. + +* Channel button colors have changed: yellow for mute and + cyan for solo is now the rule, but note that this color + highlighting is only rendered on some widget styles. + +* Master sampler volume slider/spinbox combo is now featured. + +* Initial support for sampler channel FX sends, while saving + the session state, only at code-level. * Sampler channel setup dialog does not mandate for valid nor - existing instrument file name; dropped MIDI port from sampler - channel strip display, only MIDI channel is now displayed. + existing instrument file name. * Revised error verbosity in general and on session load/save; hour-glass wait cursor is now displayed on session load/save; @@ -53,7 +445,7 @@ * Minor fixing on the initial messages dock-window height. * Audio output channel routing configuration finally hits - the sampler channel dialog, at last! (EXPERIMENTAL). + the sampler channel dialog, at last! * All widget captions changed to include proper application title name prefix. @@ -62,9 +454,9 @@ sample SPEC file for RPM build is now being included and generated at configure time. -* Set to use QApplication::setMainWidget() instead of - registering the traditional lastWindowClosed() signal - to quit() slot, just to let the -geometry command line +* Set to use QApplication::setMainWidget() instead of + registering the traditional lastWindowClosed() signal + to quit() slot, just to let the -geometry command line argument have some effect on X11. * Added MUTE/SOLO buttons to individual channel strips. @@ -75,7 +467,7 @@ 0.1.2 2005-06-23 Even minor workings needs a rest. -* Fixed output disability when messages limit option is +* Fixed output disability when messages limit option is turned off (thanks to Wolfgang Woehl for spotting this one, while on qjackctl). @@ -106,17 +498,17 @@ 0.1.0 2005-05-23 Device configuration breakthrough. -* Device configuration is now complete (EXPERIMENTAL). +* Device configuration is now complete. * [bug #9] Fixed for a LSCP command syntax convention consistency, regarding the enumeration of available sampler engines, Audio and MIDI drivers. -* [bug #13] Update instrument names list when a new +* [bug #13] Update instrument names list when a new instrument file is select on the channel setup dialog. * Show appropriate message in channel strip while loading - an instrument. + an instrument. * Show libgig version in About box (in case libgig is used). @@ -146,8 +538,8 @@ drop is allowed, but it only makes sense for instrument files, each one prompting to create a new sampler channel. -* Drag-and-drop to an existing channel strip is now also - featured, allowing the in-place change of the channel +* Drag-and-drop to an existing channel strip is now also + featured, allowing the in-place change of the channel sampler instrument file. * Actual instrument names are now optionally retrieved