<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></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 first public beta release of the next<br class="">major version of Rivendell, v4.0.0beta1. 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="">*** snip snip ***<div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> Second beta release of Rivendell v4.x. Be sure to read the INSTALL</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> document, as major changes in software dependencies have occurred.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; min-height: 13px;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">Major Changes Between v3.x and v4.x:</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> Qt Toolkit. Rivendell v4.x uses and is fully compatibile with major</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> version 5 of Qt (Qt5). See the INSTALL documents for specifics.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; min-height: 13px;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> MySQL Compatibility. Rivendell v4.x aims for full compatibility with</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> MySQL 8.0 and earlier versions in their default installation</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> configurations.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; min-height: 13px;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">Database Update:</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> This version of Rivendell uses database schema version 349, and will</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" 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; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> version prior to upgrade, see RDAdmin->SystemInfo.</span></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">*** snip snip ***</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">In addition to the Rivendell application code, I’m also pleased to announce the availability of two new installation systems for Rivendell 4:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">For RedHat/CentOS 7:</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="https://software.paravelsystems.com/howtos/CentOS/7rd4/" class="">https://software.paravelsystems.com/howtos/CentOS/7rd4/</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">For UbuntuStudio 20.04 LTS “Focal Fossa”: </div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="https://software.paravelsystems.com/howtos/ubuntu/focal/" class="">https://software.paravelsystems.com/howtos/ubuntu/focal/</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Please feel free to spin up either environment and put the system through its paces. Please create an Issue report for any problems found at:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="https://github.com/ElvishArtisan/rivendell/issues" class="">https://github.com/ElvishArtisan/rivendell/issues</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Be sure to mention both the version of Rivendell and distribution used.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Cheers!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; 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-stretch: normal; 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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