<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=""><div dir="auto" 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 announce the availability of the second release candidate for the next major version of Rivendell, v4.0.0rc0. 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:<br class="">*** snip snip ***<div class=""><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;"><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;">Changes:</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;"><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" 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; line-height: normal;" 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; line-height: normal;" 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; 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=""> Date/Time Customizability. Date/Time presentation formats can now be</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> customized on the basis of site preferences.</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=""> MySQL Compatibility. Rivendell v4.x aims for full compatibility with</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" 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; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> configurations.</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=""> RDAirPlay. The rdairplay(1) module has been completely overhauled, and</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> now supports dynamic resizeability as well as a revamped level metering</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> system.</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=""> RDPanel. The rdpanel(1) module now supports dynamic resizing.</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. It is now possible to disable grid processing on a</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> service-by-service basis, thus permitting a complete schedule to</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> be generated by an external music scheduler. See the 'Bypassing Grid</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> Processing' section in the 'Generating Logs and Reports with</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> RDLogManager' section of the Operation Guide 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=""> Many bug and regression fixes. See the '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 366, 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 class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;">*** snip snip ***</div><div class=""><br class="">Details and source code are available at <a href="https://github.com/ElvishArtisan/rivendell/releases" class="">https://github.com/ElvishArtisan/rivendell/releases</a>.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Additionally, online installers for deploying Rivendell v4.x are available for the following Linux distributions:<br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">1) Ubuntu 22.04 “Jammy Jellyfish”: <a href="https://software.paravelsystems.com/howtos/ubuntu/jammy/" class="">https://software.paravelsystems.com/howtos/ubuntu/jammy/</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">2) RHEL/CentOS 7: <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="">3) RHEL/Rocky 8: <a href="https://software.paravelsystems.com/howtos/rhel/8rd4/" class="">https://software.paravelsystems.com/howtos/rhel/8rd4/</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">NOTE: It was my original intent to add an installer for RHEL/Rocky 9 to the above list, but this has proved impractical due to the broken state of several package dependences in Fedora’s ‘Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux’ [EPEL] repository. Some of these have open issues reporting severe problems dating back for almost a year, with no sign of any intent or attempt to address the issues. In light of this and other signs in the wind that Fedora’s corporate parent has effectively decided write off the community-facing aspects of their ecosystem, I’ve decided that RHEL 8 will be the last RHEL-based distribution to have a dedicated online installer.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If you encounter a bug or problem, please consider opening an issue report for it at: <a href="https://github.com/ElvishArtisan/rivendell/issues" class="">https://github.com/ElvishArtisan/rivendell/issues</a>.</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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