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- Early preparations for the v0.6.3 (summer'20) release.
1 Qsampler - A LinuxSampler Qt GUI Interface
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4 ChangeLog
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6
7 0.6.3 2020-07-31 A Summer'20 Release.
8
9 - Early fixing to build for Qt >= 5.15.0.
10
11
12 0.6.2 2020-03-24 A Spring'20 Release.
13
14 - Make man page compression reproducible (after request
15 by Jelle van der Waa, while on the Vee-Ones, thanks).
16
17 - Ditching deprecated QTime methods for QElapsedTimer's
18 (in compliance to Qt >= 5.14.0).
19
20 - If connection to server aborted, try to automatically
21 reconnect (if server was not started by QSampler).
22
23 - Fixed crash when a device disappeared on server side
24 (caused by iterator invalidation).
25
26 - Bumped copyright headers into the New Year (2020).
27
28
29
30 0.6.1 2019-12-22 The Winter'19 Release.
31
32 - Custom color (palette) theme editor introduced; color
33 (palette) theme changes are now effective immediately,
34 except on default.
35
36 - Second attempt to fix the yet non-official though
37 CMake build configuration.
38
39 - When using autotools and ./configure --with-qt=...,
40 it is also necessary to adjust the PKG_CONFIG_PATH
41 environment variable (after a merge request by plcl
42 aka. Pedro L��pez-Cabanillas, while on qmidinet).
43
44
45 0.6.0 2019-10-17 An Autumn'19 Release.
46
47 - Added alternate yet non-official CMake build option.
48
49 - Fix HiDPI display screen effective support (Qt >= 5.6).
50
51 - Make sure compiler flags comply to c++11 as standard.
52
53
54 0.5.6 2019-07-12 A Summer'19 Release.
55
56 - Updated for the newer Qt5 translation tools (>= 5.13).
57
58 - Configure updated to check for qtchooser availability.
59
60 - Minor update to Debian packaging control file.
61
62
63 0.5.5 2019-04-11 A Spring-Break'19 Release.
64
65 - Re-defined all main application UNIX signal handling.
66
67
68 0.5.4 2019-03-11 Pre-LAC2019 Release Frenzy.
69
70 - Refactored all singleton/unique application instance
71 setup logic away from X11/Xcb hackery.
72
73 - HiDPI display screen support (Qt >= 5.6).
74
75 - Bumped copyright headers into the New Year (2019).
76
77
78 0.5.3 2018-12-06 An End of Autumn'18 Release.
79
80 - Avoid saving plug-in sampler channels and related devices
81 to regular LSCP (*.lscp) session files.
82
83 - Fixed MIDI and Audio device selection on the common sampler
84 channel settings dialog.
85
86 - Old deprecated Qt4 build support is no more.
87
88 - AppStream metadata updated to be the most compliant with
89 latest freedesktop.org specification and recommendation.
90
91
92 0.5.2 2018-07-22 A Summer'18 Release.
93
94 - AppData/AppStream metadata is now settled under an all
95 permisssive license (FSFAP).
96
97
98 0.5.1 2018-05-21 Pre-LAC2018 release frenzy.
99
100 - Disable singleton/unique application instance setup logic
101 when the display server platform is not X11.
102
103 - Fixed device management dialog not responding to user changes.
104
105 - A little hardening on the configure (autoconf) macro side.
106
107 - Fixed minor memory leak in device management dialog.
108
109 - Fixed unnecessary latency when closing app.
110
111
112 0.5.0 2017-12-12 An Autumn'17 release.
113
114 - French (fr) translation added by Olivier Humbert
115 (qsampler_fr.ts).
116
117 - Desktop entry specification file is now finally independent
118 from build/configure template chains.
119
120 - Updated target path for freedesktop.org's AppStream metainfo
121 file (formerly AppData).
122
123
124 0.4.3 2017-04-27 Pre-LAC2017 release frenzy.
125
126 - Added French man page (by Olivier Humbert, thanks).
127
128 - Make builds reproducible byte for byte, by getting rid of
129 the configure build date and time stamps.
130
131
132 0.4.2 2016-11-14 A Fall'16 release.
133
134 * Fixed a potential crash on the singleton/unique application
135 instance setup.
136
137 * Almost complete overhaul on the configure script command
138 line options, wrt. installation directories specification,
139 eg. --prefix, --bindir, --libdir, --datadir and --mandir.
140
141
142 0.4.1 2016-09-14 End of Summer'16 release.
143
144 * Fixed a race condition on creating sampler channels that ended
145 in duplicate channel strips; also fixed channel auto-arrange.
146
147 * Dropped the --enable-qt5 from configure as found redundant
148 given that's the build default anyway (suggestion by Guido
149 Scholz, while for Qtractor, thanks).
150
151 * Automake: set environment variable GCC_COLORS=auto to allow GCC to
152 auto detect whether it (sh/c)ould output its messages in color.
153
154
155 0.4.0 2016-04-05 Spring'16 release frenzy.
156
157 * Added application keywords to freedesktop.org's AppData.
158
159 * Prevent x11extras module from use on non-X11/Unix plaforms.
160
161 * Messages standard output capture has been improved again, now
162 in both ways a non-blocking pipe may get.
163
164 * Single/unique application instance control adapted to Qt5/X11.
165
166
167 0.3.1 2015-07-19 Summer'15 release frenzy.
168
169 * Fixed configure script's Qt include directory lookup for some
170 64bit Linux flavours.
171
172 * Prefer Qt5 over Qt4 by default with configure script.
173
174 * A new top-level widget window geometry state save and restore
175 sub-routine is now in effect.
176
177 * Fixed for some strict tests for Qt4 vs. Qt5 configure builds.
178
179
180 0.3.0 2015-03-25 Pre-LAC2015 release frenzy.
181
182 * Added application description as freedesktop.org's AppData.
183
184 * Added this "Don't ask/show this again" option to some if not most
185 of the nagging warning/error message boxes.
186
187 * Mac OS X: Fixed default path of linuxsampler binary.
188
189 * When closing qsampler and showing the user the dialog whether to
190 stop the LinuxSampler backend, set the default selection to "Yes".
191
192 * Master volume slider now getting proper layout when changing its
193 main toolbar orientation.
194
195 * Messages standard output capture has been slightly improved
196 as for non-blocking i/o, whenever available.
197
198 * Adjusted configure check for libgig to detect the new --includedir.
199
200 * A man page has beed added (making up Matt Flax's work on
201 debian, thanks).
202
203 * Translations install directory change.
204
205 * Added support for SF2 instrument names/preset enumeration.
206
207 * Added instrument list popup on channel strip which shows up when
208 the instrument name is clicked. Allows faster switching among
209 instruments of the same file.
210
211 * Adjusted configure check for libgig to detect its new --libdir
212 (impolitely forcing the user now to have at least libgig 3.3.0).
213
214
215 0.2.3 2013-12-31 A fifth of a Jubilee.
216
217 * Allow the build system to include an user specified LDFLAGS.
218
219 * More preparations for Qt5 configure build.
220
221 * Standard scalable format (SVG) and MIME type icons support for
222 session files (*.lscp) is now being added.
223
224 * Preparations for Qt5 migration.
225
226 * Added include <unistd.h> to shut up gcc 4.7 build failures.
227
228 * Make(ing) -jN parallel builds now available for the masses.
229
230 * Fixed Makefile.in handling of installation directories to the
231 configure script eg. --datadir, --localedir.
232
233 * Made lookup of translation files work inside a Mac OS X bundle.
234
235 * Minor Mac OS X compilation error fix.
236
237 * Debugging stacktrace now applies to all working threads.
238
239 * Made lookup of translation files more robust on Windows.
240
241 * Fixes for cross compiling and building for Windows with configure
242 and make.
243
244 * libX11 is now being added explicitly to the build link phase,
245 as seen necessary on some bleeding-edge distros eg. Fedora 13,
246 Debian 6.
247
248 * Moving from old deprecated Qt3'ish custom event post handling
249 into regular asynchronous signal/slot strategy.
250
251 * Sampler channel and instrument file requester support for
252 other than GIG engine instrument files (*gig; *.dls) has
253 been added, making roads for the newer SFZ and SF2 engines
254 instrument files (*.sfz; *.sf2).
255
256 * General standard dialog buttons layout is now in place.
257
258 * Initial widget geometry and visibility persistence logic has
259 been slightly revised as much to avoid crash failures due to
260 wrong main widget hidden state.
261
262 * General source tree layout and build configuration change.
263
264 * Automatic crash-dump reports, debugger stack-traces (gdb), back-
265 traces, whatever, are being introduced as a brand new configure
266 option (--enable-stacktrace) and default enabled on debug build
267 targets (--enable-debug).
268
269 * Attempt to fix broken instrument list model/view on Qt >= 4.6.
270
271 * Device parameter spin-box default maximum has been set higher:
272 now at a magic 24-bit limit (16777216) instead of older 16-bit
273 (65536), possibly fixing bug #136.
274
275 * LADISH Level 1 support has been added: SIGUSR1 signal trap
276 just makes it a shortcut to File/Save.
277
278 * MIDI Device Status menu is disabled when no MIDI device exists;
279 a menu separator has been added.
280
281 * Window manager's close button was found missing from the Devices
282 and Instruments widgets when on Qt >= 4.5, now fixed.
283
284 * MIDI activity indicator on channel strips and MIDI device status
285 widgets is now implemented as a flashing green LED, instead of a
286 lame green solid background :).
287
288 * Global configuration state is now explicitly saved/committed to
289 disk when View/Options... dialog changes are accepted and applied.
290
291 * Czech (cs) translation added (by Pavel Fric).
292
293
294 0.2.2 2009-08-01 New release cycle.
295
296 * Russian (qsampler_ru.ts by Alexandre Prokoudine) makes it as
297 brand first translation delivered. Thanks and welcomes whom
298 ever may follow ;)
299
300 * Converted obsolete QMessageBox forms to standard buttons.
301
302 * Added support for runtime max. voices / disk streams setting
303 (accessible from the "Options..." dialog). Those fine tuning
304 settings will be saved in case the user modified them and
305 automatically restored to the sampler when reconnecting to
306 a sampler the next time.
307
308 * Grayed/disabled palette color group fix for dark color themes.
309
310 * Fait-divers: desktop menu file touched to openSUSE conventions.
311
312 * Due to some trouble with newer Qt >= 4.4 applications regarding
313 font size configuration, a new global user option is now available
314 to the rescue: View/Options... /Display/Other/Base font size
315 (default none).
316
317 * Attempt to load Qt's own translation support and get rid of
318 the ever warning startup message, unless built in debug mode.
319 (transaction by Guido Scholz, while on qsynth-devel, thanks).
320
321 * Only one application instance is now allowed to be up and
322 running, with immediate but graceful termination upon startup
323 iif an already running instance is detected, which will see its
324 main widget shown up automatically (Qt/X11 platform only).
325
326 * Messages file logging makes its first long overdue appearance,
327 with user configurable settings in View/Options.../Server/Logging.
328
329 * Bugfix in sampler channel dialog, driver combo boxes' content were
330 screwed.
331
332 * Automatically add & remove channel strips as they were removed
333 e.g. by other frontends.
334
335 * Refresh device management dialog when device informations changed,
336 e.g. on changes caused by other frontends
337 (fixes segfault on device changes)
338
339 * Implemented MIDI device activity windows, selectable from the
340 "View" main menu.
341
342 * Implemented MIDI activity indicator on channel strips.
343
344 * Added FX Sends Dialog to Channel Strips.
345
346 * Color pallete fix for the instrument name display in channel
347 strip, particularly notorious on Mac OS X builds.
348
349 * Added dialog when the application exits which lets the user
350 decide whether to keep the LinuxSampler running or not.
351
352
353 0.2.1 2007-12-06 Qt4 migration was complete.
354
355 * Added recent new support of libgig for retrieving instrument
356 names in avery fast way. If libgig provides this feature, then
357 the respective name retrieval setting in qsampler is enabled by
358 default.
359
360 * The current selected/activated channel-strip is now visually
361 evident while in the application workspace (highlighting).
362
363 * Make View/Menubar and Toolbar shortcuts accessible even though
364 the main menu and toobar are not visible.
365
366 * Audio routing table is initially hidden in the dialog, when
367 creating a new sampler channel.
368
369 * README requirements and configuration notes update.
370
371 * Disable OK button in sampler channel form and MIDI instrument
372 form if no valid engine is selected (to avoid bothering newbie
373 users with confusing LSCP syntax errors when using the UI the
374 first time).
375
376 * Fixed creation of devices (don't try to set device parameters
377 which the user did not touch in the device creation dialog).
378
379 * Added Windows file path support.
380
381 * Fixed win32/qmakefile and win32/config.h so that it compiles
382 under win32.
383
384 * Qt4 port of the application.
385
386
387 0.1.5 2007-10-15 Five months later a fifth is heard.
388
389 * Added support for LSCP escape sequences to allow loading and
390 mapping instrument files with special characters in their
391 filename, as well as special characters for instrument names
392 and instrument map names (requires LSCP v1.2 on sampler side).
393
394 * Added new button "Edit" to the channel strips, which probably
395 does exactly what you think it does: it opens an appropriate
396 instrument editor application; the channel instrument editor
397 tool is also accessible from the main menu and toolbar.
398
399 * Application icon is now installed to ${prefix}/share/pixmaps;
400 application desktop entry file is now included in installation;
401 spec file (RPM) is now a bit more openSUSE compliant.
402
403 * Crash fix on double-clicking on a empty instrument list.
404
405
406 0.1.4 2007-05-04 Almost another year has gone by.
407
408 * Channel button colors have changed: yellow for mute and
409 cyan for solo is now the rule, but note that this color
410 highlighting is only rendered on some widget styles.
411
412 * Master sampler volume slider/spinbox combo is now featured.
413
414 * Initial support for sampler channel FX sends, while saving
415 the session state, only at code-level.
416
417 * Sampler channel setup dialog does not mandate for valid nor
418 existing instrument file name.
419
420 * Revised error verbosity in general and on session load/save;
421 hour-glass wait cursor is now displayed on session load/save;
422 keyboard shortcuts changed on MIDI instruments view context;
423 improved channel strip arrangement on session open/load;
424 instrument map entry removal confirmation (as optional);
425 corrected some tooltip text strings.
426
427 * Most top-level widgets were missing the normal-widget flag,
428 which were causing some sticky size behavior while on some
429 window managers.
430
431 * Added preliminary MIDI instrument mapping support; now
432 with an instrument list widget and editing capabilities;
433 MIDI instrumeent map program numbers are now displayed in
434 the range 1-128, instead of the internal 0-127.
435
436 * GPL address update.
437
438
439 0.1.3 2006-06-01 Its been a long year isn't it?
440
441 * Changed deprecated copyright attribute to license,
442 on qsampler.spec (RPM).
443
444 * Added configure support for x86_64 libraries (UNTESTED).
445
446 * Optional specification of alternate liblscp and libgig
447 installation paths have been added to configure command
448 arguments (--with-liblscp, --with-libgig).
449
450 * Whenever the listing of actual instrument names is not an
451 option (e.g. due to lack of libgig support), the whole
452 number of selectable instrument items is now being graciously
453 increased from just the bare 8 (eight) right up through 100
454 (one hundred), on the sampler channel setup dialog.
455
456 * The selection buttons, on the right of the Instrument, Audio
457 and MIDI devices combo-boxes, on the sampler channel dialog,
458 are now expected to be a little better looking than it was
459 before, at least for those Mac OS X eyes.
460
461 * Minor fixing on the initial messages dock-window height.
462
463 * Audio output channel routing configuration finally hits
464 the sampler channel dialog, at last!
465
466 * All widget captions changed to include proper application
467 title name prefix.
468
469 * Attempt to bring those aging autoconf templates to date;
470 sample SPEC file for RPM build is now being included and
471 generated at configure time.
472
473 * Set to use QApplication::setMainWidget() instead of
474 registering the traditional lastWindowClosed() signal
475 to quit() slot, just to let the -geometry command line
476 argument have some effect on X11.
477
478 * Added MUTE/SOLO buttons to individual channel strips.
479
480 * Fixed compilation error which occured when Qt was
481 compiled with -no-stl.
482
483
484 0.1.2 2005-06-23 Even minor workings needs a rest.
485
486 * Fixed output disability when messages limit option is
487 turned off (thanks to Wolfgang Woehl for spotting this
488 one, while on qjackctl).
489
490 * Added CHANNEL_INFO event feedback notification handling;
491 minor stream/voice usage auto-refresh cycle optimization.
492
493
494 0.1.1 2005-06-12 The mantra of bugfixes.
495
496 * New improved and full-featured application icon, thanks
497 to Christian Schoenebeck design.
498
499 * Fixed refresh cycle of channel strips that are found
500 in an error state, which was preventing correct channel
501 info updates.
502
503 * Device configuration now accessible on toolbar. Added
504 buddy text label to device port/channel combobox on the
505 device dialog.
506
507 * Include libgig version info on command line request (-v).
508
509 * Minor configure and Makefile install fixes, as Debian and
510 Mac OS X specialties. Also, install does the right thing
511 with target file modes (thanks to Matt Flax and Ebrahim
512 Mayat, for pointing these out).
513
514
515 0.1.0 2005-05-23 Device configuration breakthrough.
516
517 * Device configuration is now complete.
518
519 * [bug #9] Fixed for a LSCP command syntax convention
520 consistency, regarding the enumeration of available
521 sampler engines, Audio and MIDI drivers.
522
523 * [bug #13] Update instrument names list when a new
524 instrument file is select on the channel setup dialog.
525
526 * Show appropriate message in channel strip while loading
527 an instrument.
528
529 * Show libgig version in About box (in case libgig is used).
530
531
532 0.0.5 2005-03-04 Fifth alpha-release.
533
534 * Fixed device driver type channel information gathering,
535 which was severely flawed, dropping all channel session
536 configurations to the default audio driver type (which
537 is ALSA) unexpectedly.
538
539 * Channels are now properly renumbered when saving to a
540 session LSCP script, assuming that it should be always
541 loaded from scratch (i.e. zero channels).
542
543 * Disabled MIDI port setting on channel dialog, and on
544 session file save, as its use is still troublesome.
545
546 * Added new menu and toolbar option: Reset All Channels.
547
548 * Channel setup changes are now properly filtered, as for
549 only those settings that are actually changed gets applied;
550 change information are now also posted to messages window.
551
552 * Drag-and-drop of either session files (LSCP scripts) or
553 instrument files (GIG) are now supported. Multiple files
554 drop is allowed, but it only makes sense for instrument
555 files, each one prompting to create a new sampler channel.
556
557 * Drag-and-drop to an existing channel strip is now also
558 featured, allowing the in-place change of the channel
559 sampler instrument file.
560
561 * Actual instrument names are now optionally retrieved
562 from the instrument file, even though libgig is available,
563 avoiding excessively annoying load times while on the
564 channel dialog, when huge instrument files are selected.
565
566 * Set to ignore the SIGPIPE ("Broken pipe") signal, where
567 available, as the default handler is usually fatal when
568 a JACK client is zombified abruptly.
569
570 * Messages window limit is now enforced only when the line
571 count exceeds in one third the user configured line count
572 maximum; if Qt 3.2.0+ is in use, the QTextView widget is
573 otherwise set to the optimized Qt::LogText format.
574
575
576 0.0.4 2004-11-19 Fourth alpha-release.
577
578 * Instrument index selection now made via combo box widget;
579 actual instrument names are now properly retrieved from
580 the instrument file, provided if libgig is available.
581
582 * Sampler channels strips are just created if, and only if,
583 the respective channel setup dialog is actually accepted,
584 following common user-interface guidelines.
585
586 * Almost complete rewrite of sampler channel strips internal
587 control structures.
588
589 * Sampler reset command action added to menu and toolbar.
590
591 * MIDI channel selection is now a dropdown list, allowing
592 the explicit selection for "All" channels input per sampler
593 channel (omni mode).
594
595 * Channel strip display glass effect has changed background
596 color to black (was green), being now an user option.
597
598 * Minor configure fixes.
599
600
601 0.0.3 2004-07-06 Third alpha-release.
602
603 * Mon-modal intrument file loading and status support.
604
605 * Effective MIDI input port setting on channel dialog,
606 and on session file save.
607
608 * Channel dialog gets sensible engine and driver defaults
609 on create time.
610
611 * Implied channel reset on successful instrument load.
612
613
614 0.0.2 2004-06-15 Pre-revolutionary release.
615
616 * The channel context menu is also accessible by right-clicking
617 over the empty workspace area.
618
619 * Added small wait event loop on qsamplerMainForm::stopServer(),
620 so let local server terminate gracefully and stabilize, and
621 avoiding a probable segfault on exit, which was preventing the
622 correct salvage of settings and configuration.
623
624 * Maximum channel volume percent setting is now a global option,
625 provided to override the default (which is 100%).
626
627 * Client/server transaction timeout option upper limit has been
628 increased from 5000 to 60000 milliseconds.
629
630 * A channel context menu is now featured, by right-clicking over
631 each sampler channel strip.
632
633 * Commented SET CHANNEL MIDI_INPUT_PORT command from
634 qsamplerMainForm::saveSessionFile(), it has no effect.
635
636 * Insert a n #include <unistd.h> on qsamplerMessages.cpp, between
637 a #if !defined(WIN32) clause.
638
639 * An initial non zero value (0.8) is now set for volume of every
640 new sampler channel strip.
641
642 * The order to load/save and setup channel settings is now as
643 suggested in the following lines:
644
645 SET CHANNEL AUDIO_OUTPUT_TYPE ...
646 SET CHANNEL MIDI_INPUT_TYPE ...
647 SET CHANNEL MIDI_INPUT_CHANNEL ...
648 LOAD ENGINE ...
649 LOAD INSTRUMENT ...
650 SET CHANNEL VOLUME ...
651
652
653 0.0.1 2004-06-05 Primordial alpha release.
654

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