On behalf of the entire Rivendell development team, I'm pleased to announce the availability of the first production release of the next major version of Rivendell, 3.0.1. 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. *** snip snip *** Changes: Rivendell is now Unicode UTF-8 clean. Qt4 is now used throughout Rivendell instead of Qt3. A multicast update system has been added that allows Rivendell modules to update views syncronously in step with changes made in other modules. The Rivendell Loadable Modules system for processing PAD data has been completely replaced by PyPAD, allowing PAD processing plug-ins to be written in the popular Python scripting langauge. Backward compatible replacement scripts for many of the RLM plug-ins supplied in Rivendell v2.x are included. Added a compatibility library to facilitate the use of the Rivendell Web API in external applications. A system of virtual log machines has been added, allowing play-out of up to 23 logs simultaneously. Rivendell is now fully systemd compatibile. The Windows ports of rdlogedit(1) and rdlogmanager(1) have been removed. Database Update: This version of Rivendell uses database schema version 308, and will automatically upgrade any earlier versions. To see the current schema version prior to upgrade, see RDAdmin->SystemInfo. Be sure to run 'rddbmgr --modify' (as root) immediately after upgrading to allow any necessary changes to the database schema to be applied. *** snip snip *** GETTING AND TRYING THIS RELEASE -------------------------------- Full source code for this release is available at: https://github.com/ElvishArtisan/rivendell/releases/tag/v3.0.1 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 available. This is the quickest and easiest way actually to try this release for yourself. Instructions can be found at: http://static.paravelsystems.com/rivendell-install-rd3/rivendell-install-rh… IF YOU FIND A PROBLEM --------------------- 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 [v3.0.1] in your report. Cheers! |---------------------------------------------------------------------| | Frederick F. Gleason, Jr. | Chief Developer | | | Paravel Systems | |---------------------------------------------------------------------| | We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give. | | | | -- Winston Churchill | |---------------------------------------------------------------------|