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Revision as of 22:03, 12 November 2010

Contents

Important.png Note: Please note that the following reflects changes for a future release of MythTV. The current release is 34.0.


Important.png Note: This page is actively updated, edited, and modified during the current trunk development cycle (expected to become the "0.25" release). Expect it to change drastically, on a frequent basis, up until the next official release. Items may be added, changed, and removed to accurately reflect anticipated functionality and features leading up to the release date.


Important 0.25 Dates
Event Date Changeset
Development Started 10/19/2010 [26888]
RC 1 Released TBD TBD
RC 2 Released TBD TBD
Final Release TBD TBD

Below is an overview of the changes currently in trunk, which will become a future release of MythTV. Some of these changes, most notably the fixes, may have been backported to the 0.24-fixes branch. This is a fairly comprehensive list of significant or noticeable changes that impact the user experience in some way. For every change listed on this changelog, there are many times more changes not listed related to the core framework and inner workings of the software which allow MythTV to do what it does - in other words, what is listed is just the tip of the iceberg.



 

New Features

Major Changes

Prerequisite Changes

Minimum version changes
  • Require Python v2.6 (remove support for v2.5)
Added support libraries/prerequisites
Removed support libraries/prerequisites

Special Notices & Instructions

MythTV

mythfrontend

New Features
Bug Fixes
Changes/Improvements/Other
  • When exiting the cut list editor, don't ask to save if no changes were made [27197]

Key Bindings, Jump Points, and Input Devices

New Features
Bug Fixes
Changes/Improvements/Other

Guide Data, EIT, Program Info, and Media Metadata

New Features
Bug Fixes
Changes/Improvements/Other

UPNP

New Features
Bug Fixes
Changes/Improvements/Other

Audio

New Features
  • Enable audio sync offsets to be stored and persisted across all videos per frontend [r27148] - Ref. #4262
Bug Fixes
Changes/Improvements/Other

Video Playback

New Features
Bug Fixes
Changes/Improvements/Other

OSD, EPG, CC, and Subtitles

New Features
Bug Fixes
Changes/Improvements/Other

MythUI

New Features
Bug Fixes
Changes/Improvements/Other
  • Removed tags/attributes as of .25:
    • Remove last remaining support of deprecated "gradient" imagetype - superceeded in favor of shape+gradient [27176]

Network Control

New Features
Bug Fixes

mythbackend

New Features
  • Add new storage group weighting mechanism - Disk % Free [27190]
Bug Fixes
Changes/Improvements/Other

Tuner/Recorder Support

Scheduler

New Features
Changes/Improvements/Other

Setup / mythtv-setup

New Features
Bug Fixes
Changes/Improvements/Other

Misc

New Features
Bug Fixes
Changes/Improvements/Other

Translations & Localization/Internationalization

New Features
Bug Fixes
Changes/Improvements/Other
  • Reduce number of strings generated for plugin-specific strings within core themes [27172]
  • Updated existing translations:

Themes

Arclight

Graphite

Metallurgy

Mythbuntu

MythCenter

MythCenter-Wide

Terra

Misc. Theme Development

New Features
Bug Fixes
Changes/Improvements/Other

Ports

Mac OS X

New Features
Bug Fixes
Changes/Improvements/Other

Windows

New Features
Changes/Improvements/Other

Plugins

MythArchive

Bug Fixes
Changes/Improvements/Other

MythBrowser

MythControls

MythGallery

New Features
Bug Fixes
Changes/Improvements/Other

MythGame

New Features
Bug Fixes
Changes/Improvements/Other

MythMovies

MythMusic

New Features
Bug Fixes
Changes/Improvements/Other

MythNews

MythNetvision

New Features
Changes/Improvements/Other

MythVideo

New Features
Changes/Improvements/Other

MythWeather

New Features
Bug Fixes
Changes/Improvements/Other
  • Use custom makefiles for install in place of qmake [27194]


MythWeb

New Features
Bug Fixes
  • Fix FLV playback when detected resolution is not calculated correctly [27173] - Fixes #9036
Changes/Improvements/Other

MythZoneMinder

Bug Fixes

Support libraries

Python bindings

  • Require Python 2.6 as the minimum supported version [27166]
  • Add support for "oursql" db module [27184]
  • Add support for Python 2.7 [27184]
  • Allow dashes ('-') in hostnames used for FileTransfer [27200]
  • Fix handling of responses to queries from metadata grabbers when provided with no output, rather than the expected of output with no results [27203]

Perl bindings

Utility Applications

mythcommflag

  • Add logging (at -v general,extra) at every 10% progress during commflagging [27193]

mythfilldatabase

mythjobqueue

mythtranscode

mythpreviewgen

mythshutdown

mythwelcome

Contrib

Mythextras

nuvexport