Rygel 0.5.0

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Rygel 0.5.0 (Mind the Baby) is out!

 

The first release in the unstable 0.5.x series. Changes since 0.4.6

that were not provided by any subsequent 0.4.x releases:

 

- New URI generation scheme that avoids problematic characters which

makes some crappy renderers choke.

- Allow creation of new media items and tranfering data into existing

ones (upload). This is relavent to, and works for both MediaExport and

Tracker.

- Implement GetTransferProgress and StopTransferResource actions.

- Advertise:

- support for connection stalling.

- live response to be sender-paced.

- Rewrite SearchCriteria parser to make it more reliable.

- Tracker:

- Port to the Tracker 0.7 APIs.

- Provide richer & more intuitive media hierarchy.

- Signal container update on changes to subjects.

- Act on config options allowing user to define which categories to share.

- Support for search by URI.

- Descriptive IDs for containers.

- MediaExport

- Implement custom search that translates to an SQLite query and

therefore performs much faster than before.

- Print message on console when harvesting is done.

- Don't modify DB if harvester was cancelled.

- Cancel harvester before starting new one.

- Lots of non-functional improvements and fixes.

 

All contributors to this release:

 

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)

Jens Georg

 

Download source tarball here: http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/rygel/0.5/

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What is Rygel?

 

Rygel is a collection of DLNA (UPnP AV) services (devices in UPnP

speak), implemented through a plug-in mechanism. UPnP in simplest

words is a set of protocols that defines how different devices on a

home network can seamlessly (without or with minimum configuration)

communicate with each other. UPnP AV defines how multimedia systems

could be built on top of that. DLNA in simple words is a long list of

rules that implementers must comply to if they want to achieve

interoperability with other implementations in the market.

 

More info at: http://live.gnome.org/Rygel

 

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Regards,

 

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)

FSF member#5124

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