Banshee

• Release Date: 2012-01-19

• Source Tarball: banshee-2.3.4.tar.xz

• Release Information: NEWS, sha256sum

Banshee 2.3.4 is part of the 2.3 development series leading up to 2.4, scheduled for March 2012. 

Other Enhancements

• Misc code refactorings.

• bgo#665997: Mpris: Add xesam:userRating field in track metadata.

• bgo#589196: Dap.MassStorage: metadata resync in manual mode.

Notable Bug Fixes (7 fixed since 2.3.3!)

• bgo#648522: Fix race condition when starting multiple instances.

• bgo#667355: SourceWatcher: Fix SQL error caused by incorrect escaping.

• bgo#667184: Booter: Add missing quote in command line help message.

• bgo#667478: Fix build with libmtp 1.1.

Banshee has a lot more to offer! Check out the previous major release notes…

• Read about features added in Banshee 2.2.0

• Read about features added in Banshee 2.0.0

• Read about features added in Banshee 1.8.0

• Read about features added in Banshee 1.6.0

• Read about features added in Banshee 1.4.0

Dependencies

• Mono 2.4.3 (.NET 2.0 Profile / gmcs)

• SQlite 3.4

• Gtk# 2.12.10

• GStreamer 0.10.26

• GLib 2.22

• dbus-sharp 0.7

• dbus-sharp-glib 0.5

• Mono.Addins (mono-addins) 0.6.2

• TagLib# (taglib-sharp) >= 2.0.3.7

• Required to build default feature stack:

  • libmtp >= 0.3.0

  • mono-zeroconf >= 0.8.0

  • boo >= 0.8.1

  • webkit-1.0 >= 1.2.2

  • gdata-sharp-youtube >= 1.4

  • gio-sharp >= 2.22.3, gtk-sharp-beans >= 2.14.1, gudev-sharp and gkeyfile-sharp

  • libgpod-sharp >= 0.7.95

• Run-time requirements for default feature stack:

  • udev

  • media-player-info

  • Brasero >= 0.8.1

  • Avahi

  • gst-plugins-bad (providing the bpmdetect GStreamer plugin)

Community

Contributors For This Release

The following people directly contributed to the release of this version of Banshee. Without their help, there would be no release!

 Alexander Kojevnikov, Andres G. Aragoneses, Bertrand Lorentz,
 Okano Takayoshi, Olivier Dufour

The following people contributed updated translations to this release. Without them, our project’s reach would be much more limited.

 Benjamín Valero, Daniel Mustieles, Hajime Taira, Jiro Matsuzawa,
 Marek ?ernocký, Mario Blättermann, Matej Urban?i?, ???????? ???????,
 Muhammet Kara, Yuri Myasoedov

Contributors In Past Releases

Alan McGovern, Abner Silva, Adam Lofts, Age Bosma, Alban Crequy, Alberto Gonzalez, Alex Bennee, Alex Kloss, Alex Launi, Alex Mauer, Alex Willmy, Alexander Hixon, Alexandros Frantzis, Alp Toker, Anders Petersson, Andrea Cimitan, Andreas Neustifter, Andrew Conkling, Andrés G. Aragoneses, Andy Midgette, Andy Street, Aran Cox, Arthur Carli, Arun Raghavan, Aurélien Mino, Aydemir Ula? ?ahin, Ben Maurer, Benjamín Valero Espinosa, Bill Dawson, Bob Copeland, Bojan Rajkovic, Brad Taylor, Brandon Perry, Brian Lucas, Brian Nickel, Brian Teague, Carlos Sanchez, Chase Geigle, Chow Loong Jin, Chris Howie, Chris Jones, Chris Lahey, Chris Toshok, Chris Turchin, Christian Hergert, Christian Krause, Christoph Burgdorf, Christopher James Halse Rogers, Claude Paroz, Cody Russell, Corec, Cosmin Banu, Dan Wilson, Dan Winship, Daniel Munkton, Daniel Siegel, David Nielsen, David Spreen, David Stone, Diego E. Pettenò, Dinh Ngoc Tu, Dougal Stanton, Dustin C. Hatch, Eitan Isaacson, Elena Grassi, Eoin Hennessy, Eric Butler, Erik Schmidt, Fabian Jost, Felipe Almeida Lessa, Felipe Castillo, Félix Velasco, Fernando Casanova, Florent Thoumie, Frank Ziegler, Fredrik Hedberg, Ghislain Lacroix, Götz Waschk, Haitao Feng, Hajime Mizuno, Hans Petter Jansson, Harold Schreckengost, Iain Lane, Igor Guerrero Fonseca, Ilya Konstantinov, Ivan N. Zlatev, Jack Deslippe, James Otting, James Willcox, Jan Arne Petersen, Ján Sokoly, Jason Conti, Jason Taylor, Jeff Tickle, Jeff Wheeler, Jensen Somers, Jérémie Laval, Jeroen Budts, Jo Shields, Johannes Koch, Johannes Kuhn, John Millikin, Jonas Urth Olsen, Jordi Mas, Jorge Castro, Julien Moutte, Juri Pakaste, Ken Vandine, Kentaro KAZUHAMA, Kevin Anthony, Kevin Duffus, Koichi Akabe, Konstantin Oshiyko, Larry Ewing, Lauri Kotilainen, Lukas Lipka, Mackenan Grassi, Marijn Ros, Mark Busby, Mark Saunders, Martin Pitt, Matt Enright, Matt Sturgeon, Michael Kaiser, Michael Martin-Smucker, Michael Monreal, Micha? Sawicz, Miguel de Icaza, Mike Gemünde, Mike Urbanski, Moritz Schallaböck, Nathan Palmer, Neil Loknath, Nicholas Doyle, Nicholas Parker, Nicolò Chieffo, Nils Naumann, Oben Sonne, Okano Takayoshi, Olivier Dufour, Oscar Forero, Pacho Ramos, Patrick van Staveren, Paul Cutler, Paul Lange, Pavel Antonov, Pepijn van de Geer, Pete Johanson, Peter de Kraker, Pratik Patel, Przemys?aw Grzegorczyk, Raimo Radczewski, Robin Stocker, Roderich Schupp, Rodney Dawes, Romain Tartière, Ruben Vermeersch, Samuel Gyger, Sandy Armstrong, Scott Peterson, Sebastian Dröge, Shaun McCance, Sjoerd Simons, Tim Fisken, Tim Yamin, Timothy Arceri, Tobias Mueller, Todd Berman, Travis Glenn Hansen, Travis Patterson, Travis Reitter, Trey Ethridge, Valentin Sawadski, Victor Vargas, Will Farrington, Will Thompson, William Friesen, William Pettersson, William Witt, Wouter Bolsterlee, Yuuto Tokunaga, Zhou Ting

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