<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">On behalf of the entire Rivendell development team, I'm pleased to announce the availability of Rivendell v2.18.1. Rivendell is a full-featured radio automation system targeted for use in professional broadcast environments. It is available under the GNU General Public License.<br class=""><br class="">From the NEWS file:<div class=""><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;"><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;">*** snip snip ***</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;">Changes:</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;"><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> Fixed a bug that caused creation and initialization of a new Rivendell</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> database to fail.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 13px;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">Database Update:</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> This version of Rivendell uses database schema version 272, and will</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> automatically upgrade any earlier versions. To see the current schema</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> version prior to upgrade, see RDAdmin->SystemInfo.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 13px;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> As always, be sure to run RDAdmin immediately after upgrading to allow </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> any necessary changes to the database schema to be applied.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">*** snip snip ***</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;"><span class="">Further information, screenshots and download links are available at:</span><br class=""><br class=""><a href="http://www.rivendellaudio.org/" class="">http://www.rivendellaudio.org</a><br class=""><br class=""><span class="">Cheers!</span></span></div><div class=""><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;"><span class=""><br class=""></span></span></div><div class=""><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;"><span class=""><br class=""></span></span></div><div class=""><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;"><span class=""><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">|----------------------------------------------------------------------|</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">| Frederick F. Gleason, Jr. | Chief Developer |</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">| | Paravel Systems |</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">|----------------------------------------------------------------------|</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">| if (argc > 1 && strcmp(agv[1],"-advice") == 0) { |</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">| printf("Don't Panic!\n"); |</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">| exit(42); |</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">| } |</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">| -- Arnold Robbins, describing RCS |</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">|----------------------------------------------------------------------|</span></div></span></span></div></span></div></span></div></div></div></body></html>