<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">On behalf of the entire Rivendell development team, I'm pleased to<br class="">announce the availability of the next production release of the next<br class="">major version of Rivendell, 3.5.0. Rivendell is a full-featured radio<br class="">automation system targeted for use in professional broadcast<br class="">environments. It is available under the GNU General Public License<br class="">version 2.<br class=""><br class="">From the 'NEWS' file:<br class="">Changes:<br class="">*** snip snip ***<div class="">Changes:<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> Podcasting Subsystem. Major refactoring, with explicit support of</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> iTunes and Superfeed DTDs added. All feed elements, including XML elements,</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> are now statically served rather than dynamically generated.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 13px;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> RDLogManager. Added control to specify explicitly how Start</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> Times/Lengths are derived for Inline Events (traffic, markers and</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> voice tracks).</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 13px;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> Dropboxes. Added the ability to generate e-mail reports for each</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> attempted file import.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 13px;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> GVC7000 Switcher Driver. Modified the 'GVC7000 Protocol' switcher</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> driver to better handle stacked commands.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 13px;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> WebGet. Modified the WebGet service to offer audio profiles when</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> exporting audio rather than having the user set individual export</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> parameters. Added the ability to upload audio files into specified</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> Rivendell groups.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 13px;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> Audio Library. Deprecated the ability to enforce unique cart titles.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 13px;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> Various bugfixes. See 'ChangeLog' for details.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 13px;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">Database Update:</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> This version of Rivendell uses database schema version 346, and will</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; 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; font-stretch: normal; 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; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 13px;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> Be sure to run 'rddbmgr --modify' (as root) immediately after upgrading</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;" class=""> to allow any necessary changes to the database schema to be applied.</span></div></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;" class="">*** snip snip ***<br class=""><br class="">Details and source code are available at <br class=""><a href="https://github.com/ElvishArtisan/rivendell/releases" class="">https://github.com/ElvishArtisan/rivendell/releases</a>.<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Cheers!<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">|---------------------------------------------------------------------|<br class="">| Frederick F. 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