This is the release you have been waiting for for nearly a year - gPodder 3.0.0, the first release of the "tres" branch is out and ready for you to give it a test drive. There are too many changes to list them one by one, so I'll just give you a high-level overview of what's in for you:
- Device synchronization removed: We have removed the ability to sync to iPod, MTP and filesystem-based MP3 players. You can store your gPodder data on your mobile device directly for now (using
$GPODDER_HOME) or wait for someone to implement a syncing plugin.
- New on-disk structure: Instead of having "gpodder-downloads" in your home folder, and the database and settings hidden away in another folder, all gPodder data is now stored in "gPodder" in your home directory (on Linux) or in "gPodder" in you "My Documents" folder (on Windows) or on the mass storage (MyDocs partition) on the N900 and N9. The database format has also been overhauled, you can use the "gpodder-migrate2tres" script to convert your gPodder 2 data to gPodder 3. Because all data is now stored in one folder, you can now use the Desktop version of gPodder to work on e.g. the gPodder downloaded data on your mobile device by pointing the
$GPODDER_HOME environment variable to the storage device.
- EQL: The so-called "Episode Query Language" allows you to write queries against your podcasts. For example, you can use "(audio and downloaded and minutes < 10)" to show all downloaded audio files that are shorter than 10 minutes to listen to. This is very powerful, and can currently be used in the episode list of the GTK UI using "search-as-you-type".
- Improvements to the GTK UI, including support for showing the duration in the episode list, and hiding of columns in the episode list.
- New QML-based touch UI: In addition to the GTK UI and the command-line interface, gPodder 3 contains a QML UI for use with PySide. This UI can be used on touch-enabled netbooks/laptops and on mobile devices. The QML UI is the only mobile UI supported in 3.0.0 (replacing the Hildon UI in previous releases).
- Web UI: While this is still in its early stages, there is a small Web UI included that (when complete) will make it possible to manage gPodder via a web browser (with the help of a local, embedded web server).
- Refined backend / data model: The codebase has been cleaned up and restructured, so it should be easier to maintain and add to in the future.
- Support for Woodchuck: Neal Walfield has contributed a plugin for his Woodchuck framework. With Woodchuck installed, your device can detect which podcasts you like and automatically download the right episodes.
- Better support for Windows: The Windows launcher has been refined, and Windows users can now also use the CLI in addition to the GTK GUI. The new version will also use a system-wide installation of Python 2.7 and PyGTK, and auto-download the installers for these dependencies if they are not found. This means smaller package sizes and better disk usage.
- Dropped support for Maemo 4 (N800, N810) and Maemo 5 Hildon (N900)
- Added support for Maemo 5 QML (N900) and MeeGo 1.2 Harmattan (N9)
Download:
gpodder-3.0.0.tar.gz
md5sum: a6137625e21c494e04c96e5735f51128
sha1sum: 32644629f534aaa33a13e3c1bc08f5fb2fcc07ac
For packages in various distributions, see the
downloads page.
With the release of the "tres" branch, gPodder 2 is put into
maintenance mode, with 2.20 being the latest release at the moment. Maintenance mode means for us that we will only release updates in case bugs are found and reported. We will not be adding new features, but if translators update the (now frozen) strings, we will also push out new updates every now and then. Also, we might consider merging patches against 2.x. When a new bugfix release of gPodder 2.x is made, we will still create packages for Maemo 4 and Maemo 5 users.
For Maemo 5 users wishing to upgrade to 3.0.0, we will provide packages for the new release soon - in that case, only the QML UI is supported, and users are encouraged to install the Maemo 5 Community SSU if they want to use the QML UI on their devices.
MeeGo 1.2 Harmattan packages will be provided via the Nokia Store.
This release also changes something in the Git repository: The "tres" branch gets renamed to "master" (the master branch), and the old master branch (2.x) is renamed to "two".
Also, coinciding with the release of gPodder 3, we have a
new mailing list on freelists.org.
This is just the beginning, though - with gPodder 3 finally out, the flood gates are once more open for new features to land in the master branch :)
Look out for new updates for your favorite podcatcher soon. In the mean time, if you find any bugs, please report them at
http://bugs.gpodder.org/. Thanks to all who have made this release possible, and who helped support the gPodder project over the last year that it took to get "tres" in shape! Enjoy gPodder 3 :)
