Another micro release to fix the critical regression in 'Year' hierarchy of
Tracker plugin.

All contributors to this release:

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) 

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A new release in the current unstable 0.7.x series for upcoming GNOME 2.32.0
release.

- Fix wildcard handling in search request.
- Distribute correct copy of scallable icons.
- Provide icons in DLNA standard sizes.
- Provide icons in JPEG format as well.
- Don't offer transcoding from video to audio and viceversa. This makes sense
  anyway and reduces network traffic.
- Only offer time seeking if duration is known.
- Report correct DLNA profile for MPEG-TS HD and WMV transcoder.
- List DLNA formats first in the list of supported formats.
- Provide correct values for out parameters of GetCurrentConnectionInfo action.
- Correctly handle HTTP 'POST' requests.
- Correct checks for vala bindings.
- Use new 64-bit size property in GUPnP resource API so that we can deal with
  resources bigger than 2GB.
- Fix some (potential) crashes.
- Correctly handle a translated string involving plurals.
- Don't use deprecated libsoup API.
- Correct flaws in code related to search for media object by ID. This combined
  with some changes in Tracker plugin (see below) improves the reliability and
  especially the performance of Tracker plugin a lot.
- Use the mime-type and DLNA profile when provided in item creation requests.
- Advertize byte-seek support for thumbnails.
- Correct algorithm to decide whether to seek or not.
- Set standard header on XML files.
- Prefix service URLs with a "/". This seems like the right way to do it and it
  might actually improve our IOP.
- Make use of new APIs to report all known DLNA profiles in list of supported
  formats (MediaServer only).
- Add support for the "Genre" tag in music items.
- External:
  - Handle AlbumArt property.
  - Fix a few crashes.
  - Remove workaround for bug#602003.
Tracker:
  - Make sure metadata container get unique IDs.
  - Performance improvements to search for media object by ID.
  - Make use of DLNA profile when provided.
  - Don't use Tracker's logo as icon.
  - Ignore duration of '0'.
  - Print debug after item creation in store.
MediaExport:
  - Disable plugin when Tracker plugin is/becomes available.
  - Require sqlite3 VAPI only for this plugin.
  - Code clean-up and general speed improvements
  - Extract embedded album art
  - Remove the ability for user-defined virtual folders, providing a set of
    built-in folders similar to that of tracker's.
  - Fix some minor regressions introduced by the switch to gupnp-dlna metadata
    extraction
  - Move configured files and folders into their own "Files & Folders" container
    to de-clutter root.
- Localization:
  - Add ta translation.
  - Update Galician translations.
  - Update Hebrew translation.
  - Update Spanish translation.
  - Update Romanian translation.
  - Update Slovenian translation.
- DLNA test cases fixed in this release:
  - 7.2.14.2
  - 7.2.28.1
  - 7.3.25.1
  - 7.3.26.3
  - 7.3.26.4
  - 7.3.29.3
  - 7.3.29.4
  - 7.3.33.4
  - 7.3.33.5

Dependency-related changes:
  - Require and adapt to Vala 0.9.5.
  - Require gupnp-av >= 0.5.9.
  - Require gupnp-dlna >= 0.3.0.
  - MediaExport
    - Require gstreamer-tag >= 0.10.28.
    - Require gstreamer-app >= 0.10.28.

All contributors to this release:

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) 
Jens Georg 
Yaron Shahrabani 
Lucian Adrian Grijincu 
Kjartan Maraas 
Jorge González 
Fran Diéguez 
drtv 
Claude Paroz 
Andrej Žnidaršič 

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Changes since 0.2.1:

- New API and tool (gupnp-dlna-ls-profiles) to list all supported profiles
- Move API to get a profile to the DLNADiscoverer namespace
- Make GUPnPDLNAProfile opaque, add to API documentation
- Add support for several AVC_MP4_MP profiles
- Print stream topology instead of a simple list in gupnp-dlna-info
- Add debug output controlled by an environment variable for eaesier
  debugging
- Beginnings of an automated testing infrastructure
- Add relaxed/extended mode properties (more details in the next release)
- Use 'bitrate' instead of 'maximum-bitrate' while matching streams
- Various bug fixes

All contributors to this release:

Arun Raghavan 
Parthasarathi Susarla 
Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) 

GUPnP Vala 0.6.11 released!

Changes since 0.6.10:

- Require and adapt to gupnp-av 0.3.0.

All contributors:

Arun Raghavan 
Parthasarathi Susarla 
Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) 

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A new release in the current unstable 0.7.x series for upcoming GNOME 2.31.5
release.

* MediaExport:
  * Support DLNA's 'AnyContainer' upload extenstion.
  * Only harvest media files. We use a positive list for file extensions to
    include in the metadata extraction.
  * Implement fallback to the default (slow) search implementation.
  * Lower severity for some of the console messages.
  * Update code according to latest GStreamer Vala API fixes.
* Tracker:
  * Improve Sparql query builder to achieve much better performance and reduced
    D-Bus traffic.
* GstRenderer:
  * Relicense from GPL to LGPL.
  * More descriptive default title.
- Localization:
  - Add Simplified Chinese translation.
  - Add Traditional Chinese translation (Hong Kong and Taiwan).
  - Updated Spanish translation.
- Various non-functional improvements to core and plugins.

All contributors to this release:

Aron Xu 
Chao-Hsiung Liao 
Jens Georg 
Jorge González 
Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) 

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A new release in the current unstable 0.7.x series for upcoming GNOME 2.31.4
release.

- Implement DLNA's 'AnyContainer' upload extenstion. This allows clients to
  upload items without having to specify target container. Currently it only
  works for the Tracker backend.
- Report types of items that could be created/uploaded in a container and allow
  clients to search containers by this property.
- Port last bits of C code to Vala. Now Rygel is completely written in Vala.
- Make Rygel build/work against both current stable and unstable Vala releases.
- Offer SD transcoding in EU profile. Seems certain Sony Bravia TVs only
  support EU profiles. With this change, they should at least be able to use the
  SD transcoding.
- Two more unit tests.
- Provide default configuration for WMV transcoding.
- Correctly handle boolean commandline option for disabling WMV transcoder.
- External:
  - Port the external plugin to use the new D-Bus MediaServer specification:
    http://live.gnome.org/Rygel/MediaServer2Spec. The new specification is meant
    to be very generic and scale well to large media hierarchies.
  - Make use of search API when implemented by the external application.
  - Various other performance improvements.
- Preferences UI:
  - Improve resize behavior.
  - Add missing bevel to URI tree view.
  - Replace GtkVBox by GtkVButtonBox where appropriate.
- Localization:
  - Added Punjabi Translation.
  - Updated Norwegian bokmål translation.
  - Updated Galician translations.
  - Updated Spanish translation.
  - Updated Hebrew translation.
- Various non-functional improvements.

Dependency-related changes:

- Require gtk+-3.0 >= 2.90.3.
- Require gupnp-av >= 0.5.7.
- Require gupnp-vala >= 0.6.7.

Bugs fixed in this release:

593628 - mp2ts transcoder not working with certain Bravia TV models.
596214 - URI table is missing bevel.

All contributors to this release:

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) 
Eric Anderson 
A S Alam 
Fran Diéguez 
Jorge González 
Kjartan Maraas 
Yaron Shahrabani 

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Changes since 0.13.3:

- GUPnPService should remove all handlers installed on the shared SoupServer
  instance when it is disposed.
- Fixate subscription timeout to be 300s as per DLNA requirement (7.2.22.1).
- Correct type of action argument of GUPnPService::action-invoked.
- Remove redundant copying of GValue content in a few places.
- Handle multiple variables inside property node in event notifications to be
  compatible with server-side implementations using older GUPnP
- Fix syntax of event notifications with multiple properties.
- Add/fix gobject-introspection annotations for various functions.
- Some non-functional improvements.

Bugs fixed in this release:

2084 - Add scope annotations to various functions
2131 - GUPnPServiceAction is a boxed, not a pointer
2086 - Fix gtk-doc format on all functions in public GUPnP API

All contributors:

Sven Neumann 
Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) 
Zach Goldberg 

Changes since 0.5.5:

- Optimize namespace handling in DIDL-Lite handling code.
- Hide internal function gupnp_didl_lite_object_new_from_xml().
- Remove new redundant gupnp_didl_lite_container_new_from_xml(). 
- Free the array allocated by xmlGetNsList().

All contributors to this release:
  
Sven Neumann 
Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) 

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This release marks the start of the new unstable release-cycle. This is also the
release cycle that will be integrated into GNOME 2.31 (and 3.0 eventually).
Changes since 0.6.0:

- Exit on failure to load any plugins in 5 seconds.
- Add icon to preferences UI's desktop file.
- Correct error on missing 'Elements' node in 'CreateObject' action from client.
- Advertize upload features in 'X_DLNACAP' in device description.
- Remove comments from description files as per DLNA requirement (7.2.30.1).
- Don't allow comments in DIDL-Lite from client either. This is to satisfy the
  DLNA Confirmation Test Tool rather than DLNA itself.
- Don't advertize unimplemented actions.
- autogen.sh should create m4 directory if it doesn't exist already.
- Correct Icon path in preferences UI for uninstalled case.
- Specify on debug log where rygel is currently looking for plugins.
- Localization:
  - Don't translate all strings in media-export plugin.
  - No need to translate Mediathek plugin.
  - Add Hebrew translation.
  - Add Swedish translation.
  - Add Czech translation.
  - More Spanish translations.
  - More Slovenian translations.
  - More German translations.
- MediaExport:
  - Fix search result. Search was returning the the result for the current
    limits, not the overall result count. This lead to strange behaviour on
    e.g. XBox 360.
  - Optimize searches. Noticable speed improvements on XBox music browsing.
  - Fix broken SQL query to get object by path.
  - Remove redundant custom tag for duration.
  - Make harvesting of metadata optional.
  - Re-enable simple mode which means we exporting media on the UPnP network
    even if no meta-data extractor is available.
  - Remove redundant URI table from database.
  - Work around a problem in GStreamer element playbin2.
  - Explain the term 'harvest' for translators.
  - Many non-functional improvements.

All contributors to this release:

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) 
Jens Georg 
Andrej Žnidaršič 
Daniel Nylander 
Fran Diéguez 
Jorge González 
Mario Blättermann 
Petr Kovar 
Yaron Shahrabani 

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This release marks the start of the new stable release-cycle. Changes since
0.5.2:

- Localization:
  - Fix translation framework.
  - Mark all (possibly) user-visible string for translation.
  - Use more translator-friendly language.
  - Provide comments for translators.
  - Correctly case abbreviations.
  - Translations:
    - German (de) 100%
    - Slovenian (sl): 100%
    - Spanish (es): 57%
- Fix time-seeking.
- Fix a potential race-condition in aborted HTTP requests.
- Don't stream if request is for subtitles.
- Use bigger (64Ki) buffers when streaming from gstreamer source  element.
- Remux only if transcoding is not needed.
- Configuration option for specifying plugin load path.
- Add configuration from Environment.
- Fix port specification through commandline.
- Add and expose Rygel logo.
- Pause streaming pipeline when/if client isn't reading fast enough.
- Add more unit tests.
- Use gnome-autogen.sh.
- Add missing libuuid to build and linker flags for all plugins.
- Plugins are now able to provide a model description.
- MediaExport:
  - File size change suggests file change.
  - Move media DB and metadata harvesting code from core to module as  this is
    the only module that is using it.
- External plugin now sets model description.
- Lots of non-functional improvements and fixes.

Dependency-related changes:

- Sqlite now only needed for media-export plugin.

Bugs fixed in this release:

617762 Wrong file size exported to PS3
590649 LiveResponse does not rate limit the GStreamer pipeline
615834 Uses ALL_LINGUAS in configure.ac
616189 Translation issues
617750 Only re-encode audio and video when necessary

All contributors to this release:

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) 
Jens Georg 
Mario Blättermann 
Jorge González 
Andrej Žnidaršič 

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Logo

• Its not very clear to everyone what Rygel is and I suck at explaining things.
• Its hard to represent it even when you learn what it is.

Tracker or no Tracker

• The stable tracker version (0.6) we were using sucked big time in many ways, a fact admitted by every Tracker developer I've talked to regarding this.
• AFAIK most GNOME developer (not involved with Tracker project) and distribution packagers didn't feel very positive about the project. Rygel was getting part of the heat for depending on it and that wasn't helping in gaining popularity for a new project.
• It wasn't really very difficult to implement media-export in Vala, I didn't need to spend a lot of time on it myself and I didn't feel like standing in the way of a new plugin that I'll get almost for free and will satisfy a lot of people.

• Tracker is now a blessed GNOME dependency. That means no one can say 'boo' at me anymore for depending on Tracker, while I walk the streets. More than enough people are now positive about the project.
• New Tracker APIs are very different from that of 0.6, richer easier, dynamic, complete and future proof. Not to mention its based on existing and proven technologies/concepts: RDF and Sparql.
• Most of the performance issues that tracker 0.6 was known for, has been addressed appropriately.
• Tracker is now nicely divided in different components so an application can easily depend only on the parts that it really need. For example, Rygel won't have to depend on evolution since it doesn't need any email-related stuff.
• I made sure 'nmm' ontology of Tracker has the needed UPnP properties that I will need in Rygel.

I think it will definitely be hard to implement our ideas without something that looks a lot like Tracker, and since we have Tracker something that looks a lot like Tracker is most likely Tracker :-)

• Strip down almost all the functionalities of media-export so it only exposes the file-system hierarchies on UPnP network without any metadata. Actually this is exactly what Lennart wanted in the first place when he asked for this plugin. With metadata extraction in place, we are no better than tracker 0.6 anyway.
• Remove media-export from preferences UI. Keeping in mind what kind of users will still use media-export in its new form, its quite enough that they can configure the directories to export by manually editing the configuration file.
• Provide an easy way for the user to specify which media from tracker-store to expose on UPnP network. Since user chooses the files to harvest for metadata and keep in tracker-store using tracker's preferences UI, I think it's better if this option is also provided in there but I need to discuss with Ivan yet regarding this. If that is not feasible, I'll do this in rygel-preferences.

Other features

• Unit tests: In the last release we introduced a few unit tests. This is just the beginning and we intend to write units for at least all core modules.
• MediaServer v2: Iago and Juan talked about this in their blog and announced that they already have implemented v2 so now I have to do my part and implement the consumer part in Rygel: i-e Port v1 code to v2 and I am already on it.
• DLNA compliance: Looking at the results of DLNA CTT session we had last time, we've a lot of work to do here. Hopefully mostly small fixes here and there.
• Getting married on 29.05.2010. This is the hardest one but I'm sure I can do it. :)

Update

• media-export is not being dropped. Please read carefully before making such assumptions and then saying 'Boo' to me for that. :)
• I still don't plan to have a hard dependency on Tracker at all. It will still be one of the plugins. If you want something like Tracker that is not tracker, you are more than welcome to take the existing media-export code and maintain it as separate or part of your project/process.
• Once gst-convenience library that Edward and Arun are working on, is in a stable state and delivers to it's promises of speeds (so far it has), we'll re-add export of metadata in media-export but this time around, we'll do it on the fly and won't need to deal with databases and stuff.
• Tracker has always (even in the 0.6 days) provided easy ways for specifying which directories you want it to index so once we've a way to tell it which of the indexed media to expose on UPnP, we've all the features the media-export currently provides.

Update#2

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Another release in the unstable 0.5.x series. Changes since 0.5.0:

- Add support for Xbox 360 and Window Media Player 11.
- Add support for subtitles. Currently only useful for certain Samsung DLNA TVs.
- Add Windows Media Video (WMV) transcoder.
- Add unit tests for a few modules.
- Fix some (potential) crashes.
- Make database operations cancellable.
- Throw error on database creation failure.
- Simpler (hopefully) build rules.
- Fix race-condition in streaming code so we don't terminate the connection
  before all the bytes are sent to the client.
- Fix leaking of HTTP messages of live streams on termination.
- Fix 'Content-Length' header values for partial requests.
- Fix parsing of search expression containing characters not within the original
  latin1 range.
- Use bigger (64Ki) buffers when streaming media to reduce cpu usage and
  therefore improve battery life.
- Include spec version in description document.
- Remove now unneeded work-around for vala bug#568972.
- Advertize photos with their specific class, i-e 'photo' rather than 'image'.
- MediaExport:
  - Implement search by URIs.
  - Implement search by album.
  - Error-out on invalid search expression.
  - Add support for virtual containers. This allows creation of metadata-based
    hierarchies in the user-config.
  - Fix deletion of containers.
  - URI-escape meta-data fields.
  - Catch previously uncaught exceptions.
  - Fix upgrade of database from older schemas.
- Lots of code clean-ups and documentation fixes. 
    
Dependency-related changes:

- Require gupnp >= 0.13.3.
- Require gupnp-av >= 0.5.5. 
- Require gupnp-vala >= 0.6.5.
- Require valac >= 0.8.0.

Bugs fixed in this release:

608886 - media export plugin corrupts its database when you change directories
609944 - Files not harvested on update
606305 - Samsung subtitles

All contributors to this release:

Jens Georg 
Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) 
Cyrille Chepelov 

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Changes since 0.7.1:

- Provide gobject-introspection GIR and typelib.
- Use silent build rules.
- Fix issues with version-independence magic in SSDP code.
- Fix build issues in jhbuild environment.

Bugs fixed in this release:

2025 - autogen.sh fails to find autoconf macros when they're installed in a
           non-standard location
1927 - gssdp fails to answer M-SEARCH sometimes
1921 - GObject Introspection Makefile for GSSDP

All Contributors:

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) 
Zach Goldberg 
Jens Georg 
Neil Roberts 
Ross Burton 

GUPnP 0.13.3 released!

Changes since 0.13.2:

- Include the Content-Type header in the HTTP messages. This satisfies DLNA
 CTT test cases 7.2.5.9 and 7.2.29.1.
- Use g_message instead of g_warning if we can't connect to DBus.
- Make the HTTP server listen on the context's interface only.
- Fix some potential crashes in GUPnPServiceProxy and GUPnPContextManager code.
- Fix build issues in jhbuild environment.
- Fix some gcc warnings.
- Add new API to host path for specific user-agent(s).
- Add gobject-introspection support:
 - Provide gobject-introspection GIR and typelib.
 - Add needed annotations to doc comments.
 - Add GList variants of action-related functions to satisfy PyGI.
- A few non-functional improvments.

Dependency related changes:

- gssdp >= 0.7.1

Bugs fixed in this release:

2054 - Xbox hacks
1965 - gcc warning fixes
2039 - GUPnP is hard to use with jhbuild
1948 - Signal handler are not disconnected when ContextManager is disposed
2030 - gupnp context listens on 0.0.0.0 instead of the context's ip
1924 - Content-Type header must contain charset="utf-8" in all HTTP transactions
2006 - Implement 3 new functions for language bindings (begin_action_list,
           end_action_list, gupnp_service_action_get_value_type)
1919 - Add GObject Introspection Annotations and Makefile
1979 - g_warning make gupnp-igd test fails
1906 - Tests failed with gupnp 0.13

All contributors:

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) 
Zach Goldberg 
Ross Burton 
Olivier Crête 
Neil Roberts 
Sven Neumann 
Jens Georg 
Yakup Akbay 

GUPnP AV 0.5.5 released!

Changes since 0.5.4:

- Provide gobject-introspection GIR and typelib.
- Provide microseconds in 'duration' to satisfy XBox.
- Fix data type of GUPnPDIDLLiteContainer:child-count
- Fix build issues in jhbuild environment.
- Enable silent build rules if they are available.

All contributors to this release:

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) 
Zach Goldberg 
Neil Roberts 
Ross Burton 

GUPnP Vala 0.6.5 released!

Changes since 0.6.4:

- Require & adapt to:
 - gssdp 0.7.2
 - gupnp 0.13.3
 - gupnp-av 0.5.5
 - vala 0.8.0
- Don't hide gupnp_root_device_get_relative_location

All contributors:

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) 

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Changes since 0.5.2:

- Gracefully handle empty or no 'res' node.
- Function to get the list of descriptors from DIDL-Lite objects.
- More complete comparison for LPCM mime types.
- Fix incorrect type conversion of DLNA flags.
- DLNA flags should not default to a specific DLNA version.
- New APIs to deal with contributor-related properties in DIDL-Lite objects.
- Remove redundant construction methods.
- Add forgotten header to the meta-header file.
- Add and fix gobject-introspection annotations.
- Lots of documentation fixes.
- Many minor non-functional fixes/improvements.

Bug fixes in this release:

1935 - Incorrect conversion while parsing primary DLNA Flags
1934 - DLNA Flags should not default to a specific DLNA version.
1933 - Content type matching fails when additional parameters exist in LPCM
       mime-type
1814 - Add "artists" property to GUPnPDIDLLiteObject

All contributors to this release:

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) 
Yakup Akbay 
Zachary Goldberg 

Changes since 0.6.2:

- Require and adapt to gupnp-av 0.5.3.

All contributors:

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) 

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Another release in the stable 0.4.x series. Changes since 0.4.8:

- Restart application on SIGHUP.
- Fix cancellation of HTTP streams and in turn a critical leak.
- Correct condition for byte-seeking.
- Correctly handle boolean commandline options.
- Enable check for Vala if any stamp file is absent.
- Fix condition for partial content transfer.
- Correct linker argument order. This should fix the build issue on Gentoo.
- Work-around for an automake bug.
- Limit search slice to result size.
- Fix a spelling mistake in error message.
- Tell valac to put debugging symbols to generated code so gdb can refer to
  lines in the Vala source code.

Bug fixes in this release:

601395 - restart on SIGHUP

All contributors to this release:

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) 
Jens Georg 

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