<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 v2.19.1. Rivendell is a full-featured radio automation system targeted for use in professional broadcast environments. It is available under the GNU General Public License version 2.<br class=""><br class="">From the NEWS file:<div class=""><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><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;"><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">Changes:</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> HPI Support. Implemented support for DMA bus-mastering for AudioScience</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> HPI devices.</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=""> RDHpiInfo. Removed rdhpiinfo(8). Replaced by the stand-alone 'hpiinfo'</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> package.</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=""> RDCatch Play Events. Removed the event time check for Playout events in</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> rdcatch(1), as there is no sane way to determine a consistently 'free'</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> playout time in the face of shifting cut lengths.</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=""> RDLogManager. Fixed a bug in rdlogmanager(1) that caused DB corruption</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> when a clock was deleted while still being assigned to a grid.</span></div><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 13px;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></p><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 275, 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 class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;" class=""><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;"><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo; margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;"><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=""></span></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; line-height: normal;">Cheers!</div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">|----------------------------------------------------------------------|</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">| Frederick F. 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