[LAU] [ANN] QjackCtl 0.5.5 - A Black-Friday'18 Release

[Rui Nuno Capela]

Wholly greetings!

  QjackCtl 0.5.5 (black-friday'18) is released!

QjackCtl [1] is a(n ageing yet modern, not so 'simple' anymore) Qt [2]
application to control the JACK [3] sound server, for the Linux Audio
[5] infrastructure.

Website:
  https://qjackctl.sourceforge.io
  http://qjackctl.sourceforge.net

Project page:
  http://sourceforge.net/projects/qjackctl

Downloads:
  http://sourceforge.net/projects/qjackctl/files

- source tarball:
  http://download.sf.net/qjackctl/qjackctl-0.5.5.tar.gz
- source package (openSUSE Tumbleweed):
  http://download.sf.net/qjackctl/qjackctl-0.5.5-34.rncbc.suse.src.rpm
- binary package (openSUSE Tumbleweed):
  http://download.sf.net/qjackctl/qjackctl-0.5.5-34.rncbc.suse.x86_64.rpm
- AppImage [7] package:
  http://download.sf.net/qjackctl/qjackctl-0.5.5-6.x86_64.AppImage

Git repos:
  https://git.code.sf.net/p/qjackctl/code
  https://github.com/rncbc/qjackctl.git
  https://gitlab.com/rncbc/qjackctl.git
  https://bitbucket.com/rncbc/qjackctl.git

Change-log:
- Old deprecated Qt4 build support is no more.
- Graph port sort options added as View / Sort menu.
- System tray options now subject to current desktop environment
availability.
- Also disable Setup / Misc / Other / Save JACK server configuration to
(.jackdrc) when JACK D-Bus interface is enabled.
- Whether to use server synchronous mode option added to Setup /
Settings / Parameters (only applied when JACK D-BUS interface is enabled).
- Disable some Setup / Settings / Advanced parameters when JACK D-Bus
interface is enabled and vice-versa.
- Attempt to power-cycle JACK D-Bus service on demand;
- Marked as probably useless anyway, old "H/W Monitor" option (-H) is
now being ditched from Setup / Settings  / Advanced tab.
- Graph port/connections highlighting.


License:
  QjackCtl [1] is free, open-source Linux Audio [5] software,
distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL)
version 2 or later [6].


See also:
  http://www.rncbc.org/drupal/node/1953


References:

 [1] QjackCtl - A JACK Audio Connection Kit Qt GUI Interface
     https://qjackctl.sourceforge.io
     http://qjackctl.sourceforge.net

 [2] Qt framework, C++ class library and tools for
     cross-platform application and UI development
     http://qt.io/

 [3] JACK Audio Connection Kit
     http://jackaudio.org

 [4] ALSA, Advanced Linux Sound Architecture
     http://www.alsa-project.org/

 [5] Linux Audio consortium of libre software for audio-related work
     http://linuxaudio.org

 [6] GPL - GNU General Public License
     http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html

 [7] AppImage, Linux apps that run anywhere
     http://appimage.org/


Enjoy && keep having fun!
--
rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela