[LAU] [ANN] JACK Rack 1.5.0 released

JACK Rack 1.5.0 is out! Downloads: https://sourceforge.net/projects/jack-rack/files/jack-rack/ Git repo: https://sourceforge.net/p/jack-rack/git/ci/master/tree/ Home page: https://jack-rack.sourceforge.net/ It's been 18 years since the last release, but for those of you who still have a use for a lightweight LADSPA plugin host, here's a version that'll build with modern compilers (although it still needs GTK+ 2) and includes several other improvements contributed by users over the last couple of decades. If you're maintaining a package of this, note that the dependencies have changed and the tarball is signed by my newer GPG key. Changes in this release: * Update the code so that it can be built with any language standard from ANSI C to C23. (The previous release doesn't build with GCC 15, which defaults to C23.) * Fix memory leaks and other minor problems reported by GCC and Clang's analysis tools. * Update the build system to support current autotools. * Don't try to link against the GNOME 2 libraries, and make the About window available without them (patch from James Morris). * Replace a call to a LASH internal function with a glib equivalent. * Rework the rack saving/loading code to be more robust against damaged files or missing plugins. * Use zlib for compression in the rack saving/loading code, as libxml2 often isn't built with compression support these days. If you built the previous release of JACK Rack against a recent libxml2, you won't have been able to open old compressed rack files; you can now. * Dependencies: make libxml2 and zlib mandatory, use pkg-config to find lrdf like the other libraries, and link with libm and libdl (based on patches from James Morris). * Add support for jack-session (implemented by Torben Holm, plus a fix by Peter Nelson). * Move the repository from CVS to Git. * Fix bugs in MIDI controls (patch from Peter Nelson). * Add a Czech translation (patch from Pavel Fric). * Update the Russian translation (patch from Alexandre Prokoudine). * Check for an appropriate GTK+ version (reported by Steven Chamberlain). If you encounter any problems, or if you've got any further patches sitting around that I didn't find when trawling for them, please get in touch with me. Thanks! Adam -- Adam Sampson &lt;ats(a)offog.org&gt; <http://offog.org/>