[LAA] Rivendell v3.0.0beta00

On behalf of the entire Rivendell development team, I'm pleased to announce the availability of the initial beta release of the next major version of Rivendell, 3.x. 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. MAJOR CHANGES FROM v2.x ----------------------- Unicode Support. Unicode/UTF-8 clean, with full support for characters in both the Basic Multilingual and Supplemental Planes. Qt Toolkit Upgrade. Built upon Qt4, rather than Qt3. Scalability Improvements. Engineered to support installations with hundreds or more active play-out logs. PAD System Upgrades. PAD (Now & Next) processing done by means of PyPAD, utilizing user customizable Python 3 scripts. Also fully Unicode/UTF-8 clean. Realtime Status Updates. Changes in Rivendell objects (carts, logs, etc) communicated and displayed instantly on other hosts with no need for manual refreshing. And many more... GETTING AND TRYING THE BETA RELEASE ----------------------------------- Full source code for the initial beta release is available at: https://github.com/ElvishArtisan/rivendell/releases/tag/v3.0.0beta00 Be sure to throughly read and understand the 'INSTALL' and 'UPGRADING' files in the root of the source tree, as they contain important information about changes between previous major Rivendell versions and v3.x. An upgradable CentOS 7 online installer is also available. This is the quickest and easiest way actually to try the beta release for yourself. Instructions can be found at: http://static.paravelsystems.com/rivendell-install-rd3/rivendell-install-rh… IF YOU FIND A PROBLEM --------------------- Problems?! Oh, right. This is a BETA release! If you run across a problem, please submit a detailed problem report at: https://github.com/ElvishArtisan/rivendell/issues Be sure to mention the version of Rivendell [v3.0.0beta00] in your report. Bang on it, break it, and above all, have fun! Then, tell us all about it... Cheers! |---------------------------------------------------------------------| | Frederick F. Gleason, Jr. | Chief Developer | | | Paravel Systems | |---------------------------------------------------------------------| | Beta test,v: | | To voluntarily entrust one's data, one's livelihood and one's | | sanity to hardware or software intended to destroy all three. In | | earlier days, virgins were often selected to beta test volcanoes. | |---------------------------------------------------------------------|