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== Special Notices & Instructions ==
 
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*Version number change, no more 0. prefix.
 
*Data Migration: 29 will only support direct upgrades from 0.22 or higher. If you are running an older version, you will need to upgrade to 0.22, 0.23 or 0.24 then upgrade to 29
 
*Data Migration: 29 will only support direct upgrades from 0.22 or higher. If you are running an older version, you will need to upgrade to 0.22, 0.23 or 0.24 then upgrade to 29
 
*As always, backup your database before upgrading, see [[Database_Backup_and_Restore#The_Role_of_mythconverg_backup.pl_When_Changing_MythTV_Versions|this]].
 
*As always, backup your database before upgrading, see [[Database_Backup_and_Restore#The_Role_of_mythconverg_backup.pl_When_Changing_MythTV_Versions|this]].

Revision as of 17:13, 26 July 2017
Important 29 Dates
Event Date Changesec6b3f59
Development Started 11 Apr 2016 c6b3f59
RC1 Released 26 Jul 2017 b2a2ccf
Final Release TBD N/A

The 29 release encompasses development revisions from 495eb20 though N/A.
 
The Current Release is 34.0.
 

Key New Features

  • The backend now listens on all addresses e6f11ce
  • mythtv-setup now uses MythUI

Major Changes

Prerequisite Changes

Added support libraries/prerequisites
Removed support libraries/prerequisites

Special Notices & Instructions

  • Version number change, no more 0. prefix.
  • Data Migration: 29 will only support direct upgrades from 0.22 or higher. If you are running an older version, you will need to upgrade to 0.22, 0.23 or 0.24 then upgrade to 29
  • As always, backup your database before upgrading, see this.


 

MythTV

mythfrontend

  • 45b8725 MythFrontend: Allow playback of streamed https:// files

Key Bindings, Jump Points, and Input Devices

  • 37ef0fa Python: Fix bookmarkupdate error
  • ce1935b Python: Restore chanId/startTime API for recordings

Guide Data, EIT, Program Info, and Media Metadata

  • 5933e03 mythfilldatabase: Also try matching ATSC major.minor when update xmltvid.
  • d58a00e mythfilldatabase: Handle duplicate programratings. Fixes #12914
  • 6865940 EIT: Refs #12548. Add several more multiplexes

Audio

Video Playback

Disc Playback (DVD, Blu-Ray, etc) and Media Detection

OSD, EPG, MHEG, CC, and Subtitles

Network Control

mythbackend

Scanning and Tuner/Recorder Support

Channel Scanner

  • 24064ac Channel Scanner GUI: Add percentage text back in.

Ceton InfiniTV

DVB ASI

Silicondust_HDHomeRun

Silicondust_HDHomeRun_Prime

IPTV Recorder

  • b565941 IPTV Tuner: fix recording/playing simultaneous RTSP streams
  • 2a0fda6 ExternalStreamHandler: Don't issue XOFF unless we are not keeping up with the data. It was unncessarily throttling the throughput.
  • 2a66730 ExternalStreamHandler: Under stress, the external application may not respond as quick as we would like. Give it a few tries before aborting.
  • fc9c6d4 ExternalStreamHandler: Try and be a little more tolerant of slighly miss-baving external recorders. Cleanup better when things go wrong.

VBox

  • 74230a2 VBox: Relax the firmware version check to allow for VJ.x.xx versions
  • 0bfcd20 VBOX: don't ignore channels using T2/S2 if the tuner can handle them
  • 46ffbdf VBOX: fix the channel scanner always saying it found no channels
  • bb5daa9 VBOX: bump the minimum firmware version to 2.50
  • d4c0f13 VBOX: Add multi-record support to the vbox recorder
  • 90249b4 VBOX: Prevent "VBox: Found possible VBox at Ceton InfiniTV Ethernet"

FireWire

DiSEqC

Misc

Other Hardware "Support"

== WebFrontend

  • 27d348f Webfrontend: update Content Security Policy with latest changes.

Consumer Electronics Control Support - "CEC"

Scheduler

  • 21a652e Scheduler: For consistency, put [] around card_id in log messags.

Setup / mythtv-setup

Misc

MythUI

  • 1925478 MythUI: Allow functions as slots in MythMenu and ShowOkPopup
  • 495eb20 MythUI: Add a spinbox dialog
  • d9f88c9 MythUIButtonList: Skip disabled buttons when moving around
  • 071dd75 Settings: Port the playback profile editor to MythUI
  • 0a52dfd Settings: Fix incorrect signal/slot connection
  • 0f9df2a Settings: Don't display hidden settings
  • 11008ca Settings: Add setVisible and clearTargetedSettings methods
  • 15776b1 Settings: Allow individual video sources to be deleted through the menu
  • 1728e4f Settings: Fix some settings being incorrectly marked as changed
  • 174b8bf Settings: Add setValue(int) variant
  • 19c2983 Settings: Add a method to add several targeted settings
  • 2052b11 Settings: Start converting capture card settings to MythUI
  • 2323c5f Settings: Add method to remove a child
  • 2d452a2 Settings: Port the storage group editor to MythUI
  • 33ab614 Settings: Port most of the frontend settings to MythUI
  • 3804276 Settings: Make sure the current value is displayed in combo boxes
  • 3af397f Settings: Remove TODO comment
  • 400f4a2 Settings: Add support for deleting playback groups
  • 444c40a Settings: Rename the playback group class to minimize translation impact
  • 4b2ca8c Settings: Convert the DiSEqC settings to MythUI
  • 4c43727 Settings: API updates
  • 5054902 Settings: Make signal/slot connections work by moving the objects to the main thread
  • 59e3e7b Settings: Remove inheritance to TriggeredConfigurationGroup for some classes
  • 5f6f1c1 Settings: Port the channel editor to MythUI
  • 6375cd4 Settings: Port the channel scanner to MythUI
  • 7494225 Settings: Remove a no longer relevant comment
  • 7501ec4 Settings: Avoid marking the screen refresh rate as changed
  • 75e6dd0 Settings: Port the recording & transcoder profiles to MythUI
  • 8a712a6 Settings: Remove settings.h from standardsettings.h
  • 90222be Settings: Fix compilation when debug is enabled
  • 950d116 Settings: Tweak the default theme
  • 957c154 Settings: Port the Mac settings to MythUI
  • 9d80fe7 Settings: Remove use of deprecated qVariantValue
  • b139c82 Settings: Add methods to MythUIComboBoxSetting
  • b8d9595 Settings: Port the backend settings in mythtv-setup to MythUI
  • ba64332 Settings: Add new settings classes using MythUI
  • bdeed99 Settings: Add method to delete a targeted child
  • c809f49 Settings: Rework how settings are loaded and saved
  • c86d1fe Settings: Only emit valueChanged if the value was actually changed
  • cf753f5 Settings: Add legacy setName/byName interface
  • da28762 Settings: Move the new playback group editor to libmythtv
  • e3f957f Settings: Avoid marking the audio device as changed
  • e673108 Settings: Port the creation of input groups to MythUI
  • ea41315 Settings: Don't hardcode fallback strings for the help & title text areas
  • eaa5316 Settings: Port the transport editor to MythUI
  • ec642bb Settings: Port MythTerminal to MythUI
  • efbf982 Settings: Remove MythUIComboBoxSetting inheritance from MythUISpinBoxSetting
  • f0c69c7 Settings: Add support for hiding passwords in text entries
  • f488b25 Settings: Fix settings incorrectly being marked as changed

Translations & Localization/Internationalization

Themes

Ports

Mac OS X

Windows

Plugins

MythArchive

  • 254aa41 MythArchive: Convert the settings to use MythUI
  • 9572352 MythArchive: update the initial seek amount text on the thumb image finder
  • abb2250 MythArchive: guard against an empty deleteMap in the thumb image finder

MythBrowser

MythControls

MythGallery

  • f2182a7 Gallery: Convert the settings to use MythUI
  • 336193d Gallery: Change crumb separator
  • 4e70774 Gallery: Add keybinding to set covers
  • 75a698e Gallery: Add status delay
  • 94e13f9 Gallery: Preserve aspect of folder thumbnails
  • c327f81 Gallery: Don't show folder dates in caption
  • c41c6e7 Gallery: Add slideshow jump forward/back
  • e7b50cd Gallery: Add European caption date formats
  • ed7473f Gallery: Reset theme widgets correctly

MythGame

  • 2b3ecd7 MythGame: Partially convert the settings to use MythUI

MythMusic

  • 258ba1f musicscanner: Compare music_directory.path as binary
  • 1b6308a mythmusic: remove defunct lyrdb lyrics grabber
  • 2008672 mythmusic: fix the genius lyrics grabber
  • 2cfbfa4 mythmusic: add a LetsSingIt lyrics grabber
  • 6df9ccd mythmusic: fix the lyricswiki lyrics grabber
  • 853c9bd mythmusic: various tweaks to the lyrics grabbers
  • 9156dfb mythmusic: add new Lyrics.Com lyrics grabber
  • d22cd8f mythmusic: add alsong lyrics grabber
  • 783d36a MythMusic: double the maximum size of the buffer used with DecodeAudio
  • e8d3630 MythMusic: increase the probe buffer size to 128K

MythNews

  • 7a40e96 MythNews: UTF-8 encode string literal
  • 14b636e MythNews: Fix the menu handling when no sites have been added

MythNetvision

MythVideo/Video Gallery

MythWeather

MythWeb

MythZoneMinder

  • 11ad81e MythZoneMinder: fix building the server standalone
  • 41f4cc7 MythZoneMinder: attempt to fix compilation on Darwin after [11ad81e474]
  • d13161c MythZoneMinder: try harder to find an analysis frame for an event
  • d787493 MythZoneMinder: prevent a segfault if we fail to find a monitors shared memory
  • 2f40d18 MythZoneMinder: avoid string + int when we already converted it to string
  • b886116 MythZoneminder: remove the bogus default text from a few screens
  • be01357 MythZoneminder: center the no events message in the frame image
  • 64a1f01 MythZoneMinder: Convert the settings to use MythUI
  • 8bb7220 MythZoneMinder: Remove a couple of no longer needed function declarations

Support libraries & Frameworks

Services API

  • 75e68f5 services: fix Channel/GetChannelInfoList always returning and error
  • 08a03c5 Services API: Dvr/GetTitleInfoList was returning Deleted recordings.
  • 6061920 Services API: Dv/GetUpcomingList: Don't require ShowAll for in-progress but stopped recordings.
  • 8f1ab54 Services API: Log more Guide/GetChannelIcon errors
  • a296331 Services API: Add/UpdateRecordSchedule, prevent DB Errors when timestamps aren't passed
  • 00532ed Services API: Add Channel Groups Add To/Remove From
  • 194d166 Services API: GetOldRecordedList
  • 29e2269 Services API: Fix exception messages
  • e40bc1c Services API: Fix encoder name of recording
  • ec9afde Services API: GetProgramList: Implement New listings
  • 1247e0f Services API: add a couple of methods for Music
  • 15d6031 Services API: allow for blank or empty parameter values in requests
  • 359a20a Services API: Add RecodIdForFilename()
  • 38d9ba2 Services API: Add ability to Stop/Reactivate a recording.
  • 4298254 Services API: remove a stray ; added to the genre query in ab1c3e8668
  • 681a337 Services API: make the list of parameters available to methods
  • a275357 Services API: missed a last minute change in ab1c3e8668
  • a91bc32 Services API: add new Video/UpdateVideoMetadata method
  • ab1c3e8 Services API: add the genre list to the output from Video/GetVideoList
  • 4453e98 HTTP Server: Change HOST_NAME_MAX to 1024 for some buildbots
  • 5292483 HTTP Server: Provide additional CORS support
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