On behalf of the entire Rivendell development team, I'm pleased to announce the release of Rivendell v1.0.0rc0. Rivendell is a full-featured radio automation system targeted for use in professional broadcast environments. It is available under the GNU General Public License. Changes in this release include (from the NEWS file): *** snip snip *** New Switcher Device. Support has been added for the 'Quartz' line of video routing switchers made by Evertz. See the relevant section in 'docs/SWITCHERS.txt' for details. Logging Changes. A [Logs] section has been added to rd.conf(5) for configuring event logging. Logging can now be done directly to files (as before) or through the syslog facility. See the comments in 'conf/rd.conf-sample' for details on setting this up. Overlap Transition Retired. The ability to schedule 'Overlap' transitions in program logs has been removed. The equivalent functionality can still be achieved by scheduling a 'Segue' transition with the 'No Fade at Event End' attribute enabled. Any existing overlap transitions will be automatically converted when the database schema update is applied. Random Cut Rotation Retired. The ability to schedule cuts to rotate 'randomly' within a cart has been removed, with all cut rotation now using the original 'sequential' algorithm. Bugfixes. See the ChangeLog for details. Database Update: This version of Rivendell uses database schema version 158, and will automatically upgrade any earlier versions. To see the current schema version prior to upgrade, see RDAdmin->SystemInfo. As always, be sure to run RDAdmin immediately after upgrading to allow any necessary changes to the database schema to be applied. *** snip snip *** Further information, screenshots and download links are available at: http://www.rivendellaudio.org/ Cheers! |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Frederick F. Gleason, Jr. | Chief Developer | | | Paravel Systems | |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| | There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at without result. | | -- Winston Churchill | |-------------------------------------------------------------------------|