The information on this page is essential for everyone out there who is even tiny bit interested in UPnP/DLNA.

Here goes the release log:

Brief summary of changes since 0.4.2:

- Provide a gstreamer-based MediaRenderer plugin. This is mostly code stolen (
  and heavily adapted) from gupnp-media-renderer except that it doesn't depend
  on libowl-av and/or gtk+.
- More ease for MediaServer implementors.
- Better error handling.
- Make sure no message is suppressed until we know what level of console output
  user wants.
- Make use of vala's async support to simplify code quite a bit.
- Plugins should load xml files from source tree when built with
  '--enable-uninstalled' configure flag.
- Build with no optimizations in debug mode.
- Use closure table to speed up object lookup and deletion.
- Add build option for SQL debugging.
- Workaround a crasher bug (#3774) in sqlite 3.6.12.
- Use vala's static client D-Bus syntax.
- Early ignorance of disabled plugins. This not only speeds-up startup a bit but
  also rids us of redundant debug messages.
- MediaExport:
  - Nicely handle unavailability of gstreamer's playbin(2) element.
  - Fix a potential crasher.
- Tracker:
  - Use multidimensional arrays to deal with search results. This combined with
    static client D-Bus syntax gives us quite a speed boost.
  - Handle item creation error.
- External:
  - Allow applications to provide custom thumbnails for items.
  - Support pixel-aspect-ratio properties.
  - All D-Bus operations are now done asynchronously.
  - Make use of plugin icon if provided.
  - Move magic string substitution to core so other plugins can benefit from it.
- Lots of other improvements and bug fixes.

Dependency-related changes:

- Require and adapt to libgee >= 0.5.
- Require and adapt to valac >= 0.7.8.

Bugs fixed in this release:

597276 - Rygel crash on startup
587649 - thumbnails not published for external media servers
589959 - External plugin should query media servers on demand
598005 - unable to load media-tracker plugin

All contributors to this release:

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) 
Jens Georg 
Thijs Vermeir 

Download source tarball from here.

GUPnP 0.13.1 is out!

Release log:

Changes since 0.13:

- Use unix context manager if NetworkManager service is not available.
- Fix some minor leaks.

All contributors:

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) 
Ross Burton 

Download source tarballs from here

I always forget to announce the micro releases here. Here it is now:

Brief summary of changes since 0.4.1:

- Ability to specify verbosity of console messages by a number between 0 to 5.
- Be able to survive unavailability of D-Bus session bus. This should make it easier to setup Rygel on headless NAS machines.
- MediaExport:
 - Provide duration and date of media.
 - Improved guessing for type (UPnP class) of media.
 - Re-harvest metadata when a file/directory is modified.
 - Speed-up browsing (twice as before).
- rygel-preferences:
 - Fix enabling/disabling of widgets.
 - Copy the desktop file from correct location.
- Mediathek and GstLaunch disabled by default in the user configuration.
- Add GstLaunch to maemo configuration (disabled by default though).
- Put dbus-glib-1 to the list of vala API dependencies.
- Fix seek headers.
- Be more verbose at the end of configure.

Bugs fixed in this release:

596500 - Mpeg TS video files are mistaken for audio files
596213 - Wrong state for checkboxes
596327 - Enables some weird plugins by default
596330 - Missing some metadata

All contributors to this release:

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) 
Jens Georg 

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Soon after Rygel 0.4 was released, Peter Robinson pushed it for F12 and our good friend Bastien Nocera started testing it immediately. He found many issues and some of them were so critical that we immediately had to make a another release with fixes for those issues. Thanks Bastien!

Rygel 0.4 (Fascinating!) is out!

I got thumbnails working in Rygel. :) Right now rygel doesn't generate the thumbnails on it's own but provide thumbnails if already generated by another application (e.g nautilus) and stored in the freedesktop or maemo (they are almost the same) standard location. It works on both desktop and N900 and now that gupnp stack has been released, a rygel release with this and some other cool features will arrive shortly. :)

Now it's very easy for me to find the videos of my friends.

GSSDP 0.7 released!
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So the Maemo-based Nokia N900 is finally announced. We are finally free to tell everyone the cool stuff we have been cooking all this time. My work on this device was mostly with UPnP/DLNA and MAFW, not counting my work from n800 that was re-used. GUPnP will soon be in your pocket, so those out there who doubt the greatness of this library, time to face the facts. :)

So now is the time to ask all the questions you have on our soon-in-the-shelves mobile phone. :)

Changes since 0.12.7

- Don't crash if device descriptions don't contain a root element.
- Fix pkg-config paths.
- Avoid using asserts.
- Use the closest match instead of using the icon that was last checked.
- Expect xmlRecoverMemory to fail.
- Reject action messages with zero content length.
- Change version in action answer.

Bug fixes in this release:

- bug#1570: gupnp doesn't set the pkgconfig lib dir correctly in 64 bit env.
- bug#1574: Avoid using asserts.
- bug#1592: gupnp_device_info_get_icon_url() does not return the closest match.
- bug#1604: Crash on action without any content.

All contributors to this release:

Ross Burton 
Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) 
Steven Dorigotti 
Sven Neumann 
Jens Georg 

Download at: http://gupnp.org/sources/gupnp/gupnp-0.12.8.tar.gz