MythTV, Open Source DVR

0.26 is now available for download. This is a more modest release than those of the recent past with many of the changes being internal reorganisations required to support future developments.

Notable changes include:

• HTTP Live Streaming playback and recording
• Conversion of internal times to UTC allowing smoother transitions around daylight savings changes
• Several performance improvements to the UI
• A greater number of translations (nine) are 100% complete for this release with a few more very near to completion. This number should grow by the time of the 0.26.1 point release.
• The usual bug fixes and incremental improvements

A more complete list of changes and bug fixes can be found in the Release Notes

0.27 is now under development and should be more exciting release, there will be more about that later.

We are happy to announce that 0.26-beta is now ready, although delayed due to some deadlock bugs that took longer to debug than expected.

The release schedule will be updated sometime soon once the beta has had some soaking-in testing time, although the string freeze is still set for August 12.

As part of the attempt to have a shorter release cycle, we have now released v0.26-alpha.

The proposed schedule for the v0.26 release cycle is as follows:

• July 15th - v0.26-alpha
• - Feature freeze, bug fixes OK, soft freeze on translatable strings.
• July 29th - v0.26-beta
• - Only critical bug fixes allowed after this date.
• August 12th - v0.26-rc0
• - hard freeze on translatable strings.
• August 19th - either v0.26 (final) or v0.26-rc1
• - If any further critical bug fixes required, we cut another RC and wait a week, repeat until no bug fixes for a week.
• - When no bug fixes required for one week, we will cut the final release