Hello fellow Linux Audio peeps! Apologies for this slightly delayed announcement, I wanted to sort out some server issues before posting this ... AV Linux 6.0.4 is released... before I get to the good stuff I want to take a brief moment to say how thrilling it was to meet so many of the luminaries in the Linux Audio universe at LAC 2014. It was truly the experience of a lifetime and it is so great to remember your faces when your various projects and release announcements come through on this mailing list... AV Linux is merely a frame for your masterpieces and the quality and depth of your art continues to amaze and inspire! With sincere thanks, Glen MacArthur - AV Linux Maintainer OK, on with it then Full release announcement here: http://www.remastersys.com/forums/index.php?topic=3474.0 Changelog from AV Linux 6.0.3-6.0.4: Bugfixes: - Updated Ardour3 builds to a special preview 3.5-3368 to prevent possible MIDI/Audio data loss (thanks Paul Davis and Robin Gareus!) - Reverted JACK 0.124.1 utility scripts to utilize A2JMIDID because 'alsa_midi' doesn't hotplug when new MIDI hardware is plugged in... - Removed 'broadcom-sta-common' and it's blacklist file to facilitate more Broadcom devices to work OOTB - Added menu button to reload XFWM in 'Settings' Menu in the rare event it crashes on login - Disabled default Auto-mounting of HDD Partitions in a Live Session (thanks Zensub!) - Addition of Squeeze LTS Repositories for security updates including patched BASH for the 'shellshock' bug - Installer no longer offers non-English locales since they seem to be broken, however non-English keyboards can still be set up. - Replaced Iceweasel with Firefox and added 'Ubuntuzilla' repos for an up-to-date browser option.. Updates: - Updated to 3.12..19 lowlatency PAE default Kernel ( Thanks Trulan Martin!) **An optional full RT Preempt Kernel is provided but is not compatible with proprietary nVidia/Ati Video Drivers** - Updated Harrison Mixbus Demo to version 2.5 including new LV2 Plugins bundled systemwide to /usr/lib/lv2 (Thanks Ben Loftis!) - Updated Adobe Flash Browser plugin for security fixes - Updated AmSynth to 1.5.1 (Thanks Nick Dowell!) - Updated Guitarix to 0.31(Thanks Hermann Meyer!) - Updated OpenAV ArtyFX LV2 Plugins to 1.2 (thanks Harry for OpenAV updates!) - Updated Luppp to 1.0.1 - Updated QmidiArp to 0.6.1 - Updated Qtractor to 0.6.3 (Thanks to Rui for all new Q-stuff below!) - Updated Qjackctl to 0.3.12 - Updated Qmidinet to 0.2.0 - Updated VeeOne LV2 Plugins to 0.5.1 - Updated Carla Plugin Host to 2.0beta3b plus new VST Plugin (Thanks falkTX!) - Updated LMMS to 1.0.95 + Carla Plugin host support... yep, LV2 synths in LMMS! (Thanks diizy and falkTX!) - Updated Drumgizmo LV2 to 0.9.6 (Thanks you wild and crazy Danes!) - Updated LV2 Stack to most recent releases (Thanks drobilla!) - Updated Xjadeo to 0.8.0 binary (Thanks Robin Gareus!) - Updated HarVid binaries to 0.7.5 (Thanks Robin Gareus!) - Updated Renoise Demo to 3.0.0 - Updated Pianoteq Demo to 5.1.1 - Updated Patchage to 1.0.0 (Thanks drobilla!) - Updated Yoshimi to 1.2.4 (Thanks Will Godfrey!) *note as always banks are in /usr/local/share/yoshimi - Updated FFADO to 2.2.1 - Updated GCC and G++ to 4.7 - Updated libgtk2.0 from 2.20 to 2.24 to hopefully prolong ability to compile GTK2 apps - Updated Cinelerra-CV to recent GIT CVA build ...MAJOR IMPROVEMENTS! (Thanks Paolo Rampino!) - Updated entire LinuxSampler stack to recent SVN (Thanks rockhopper!) - Udated LiVES Video Editor to 2.2.6 (Thanks salsaman!) - Updated DISTRHO Plugins (many new improvements/additions... Thanks falkTX!) - Updated Hydrogen to a 'risky' 0.9.7 alpha build with NSM support (Thanks mauser!) - Updated Kdenlive to 0.9.10 (Thanks vpinon!) - Updated Calf Plugins to the KXStudio version with LADSPA and DSSI builds (Thanks falkTX!) - Updated LibreOffice to 4.3.1 - Updated Blender to 2.71 New Additions - Added latest Emacs text-editor for developers - Added Meld file comparison tool for developers - Added linuxDSP DYN-4000 Plugin Demo (Thanks linuxDSP!) - Added Teragon Audio Plugins - Added JackAss JACK MIDI Plugins - Added SAFE Plugins - Added Infamous LV2's (Thanks ssj71!) - Added official Pipelight Repository and updated to latest versions (Thanks slackner!) - Added EnergyXT 2.7 Demo (Thanks Jorgen!) - Added EnergyXT JACK Utilities based on falkTX's libaam-jack - Added Individual Guitarix 'Bluemann' and 'Rectifier' LV2's - Added Mverb Plugins - VST, LV2, DSSI and LADSPA - Added Shuriken Beat Slicer (thanks Rockhopper!) - Added recent GIT post-Indiegogo build of OOMIDI