Difference between revisions of "Release Notes - 0.24"

These are an overview of the changes in the 0.24 release of MythTV. Some of these changes, most notably the fixes, have been backported to the 0.23.1 release.

Major Changes

New Features

MythTV

mythfrontend

• Bug fix & minor optimizations to Program Finder when loading programs that start with "A"/"An"/"The" [23853]

EIT

• EITFixup: heuristic fixup for short events marked as category type "movie" [23973]

Firewire

UPNP

Setup

• Fix editable comboboxes [23803]

Audio

• Populate the alsa devices in audio setup by using the API, rather than a static list of devices ([23794], [23961])
• Enables TrueHD as the prefered audio format when available, and better language selection logic [23874]
• Fix AAC 5.1 channel order when using --enable-libfaad [23975]

Video Playback

OSD

MythUI

Network Control

mythbackend

Scheduler

• Various minor scheduler cleanups, tweaks, and optimizations ([23798], TBD)

Misc

• Many trivial code cleanups and updates based on cppcheck, static analysis, and other coding best practices

Translations

Themes

Arclight

• Arclight themed OSD (for use with forthcoming MythUI OSD-branch merge) ([23875], [23876], [23877], [23879], and many more)

Misc. Theme Development

Ports

Mac OS X

Windows

• Find correct "Program Files" dir location on 64-bit versions ([23793], [23809])
• Various other Windows build fixes ([23792],TBD)

Plugins

MythArchive

MythBrowser

MythControls

MythGallery

MythGame

MythMovies

MythMusic

MythNews

MythNetvision

MythVideo

MythWeather

MythWeb

• Updated for tmdb.pl changes and cover art storage groups [23859]

MythZoneMinder

Support libraries

Python bindings

Utility Applications

mythtranscode

mythcommflag

mythjobqueue

mythwelcome

mythshutdown

Contrib

Mythextras

nuvexport