gPodder 3.0.4 "Weekend Vampire" released

A new release of gPodder is out! In the last two weeks, there have been many improvements that already warrant a new release now (the second one this month). Some of the generic changes:

• Basic support for Python 3 (needs 2to3, CLI only for now, see README)
• Various improvements to the episode title prefix elimination
• Tooling: HTTP authentication test tool (bug 1539)
• Tooling: New maintenance utility: merge-from-transifex.sh

The text mode interface "gpo" has also received some new features and fixes. More features are planned for upcoming releases to make "gpo" a very good alternative to other command line podcatchers. Here are the changes for this release:

• New commands for gpodder.net: "search" and "toplist"
• Show titles in "gpo list" output (bug 1493)
• "gpo list" now highlights disabled podcasts
• "gpo webui" will start the Web UI server
• New manpage with explanations and usage examples
• Various minor bugfixes and improvements

Most changes from the "harmattan" branch (which contains N9-specific customizations) have been merged into the master branch, reducing the difference between the two branches:

• Merged code fixes from the "Harmattan" branch
• QML UI: Use Harmattan Qt Quick Components
• QML UI: Remove empty menu actions

The translations have also been updated for this release: Danish, Greek, Spanish, French, Galician, German, Hebrew, Italian, Kazakh, Norwegian Bokmål, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish and Turkish. New translations have also been added: Basque and Chinese. Thanks to all our Transifex translators!

Detailed ChangeLog: gpodder.org/changelog/3.0.4

Download: gpodder-3.0.4.tar.gz
md5sum: 747100bd088393a253459211157927d5
sha1sum: 2a70bc049594500ce57d033c406183f667e94cf9

For packages in distributions, see the downloads page.

Please note that the Desktop version of gPodder 3 does not yet contain the MP3 player syncing feature. This is also the reason why the Ubuntu PPA won't be updated to the 3.x releases yet. Users depending on MP3 player syncing are recommended to stay on gPodder 2.20 until we get MP3 player syncing into the 3.x releases. When MP3 player syncing lands in 3.x, we will start updating the Ubuntu PPA again. Ubuntu users not requiring the MP3 player sync feature can use gPodder 3 packages from Debian Experimental in the meantime. See this blog post for more information and add your use cases and offer for volunteering to this wiki page. Thanks for your help!

Better gpodder.net Performance, Step 1: CouchDB

The performance of gpodder.net has been pretty bad for quite a while, and we've been constantly working on improvements.

One part of this effort was the migration of the gpodder.net codebase from a MySQL backend to CouchDB. As of today, this migration is finished and gpodder.net has all its data in a CouchDB database. While this won't be the final solution to all (performance) problems, it should at least be a slight improvement, with lots of potential to optimize and scale.

The next step will probably be some new servers, but we're currently negotiating the deal. I hope I can reveal more information in a few weeks.

Apart from performance improvements there should now be also more time to work on new features. If you have some idea that you'd like to see in gpodder.net, let us know through Get Satisfaction or the bugtracker.

gPodder 3.0.3 "Our Man in Toyland" released

As you might have noticed by now, we are back to our usual one-release-per-month schedule. This January release of gPodder brings improvements to the N9 integration (including support for the cable headset button), support for downloading content from Vimeo video feeds, fixes and improvements to the common prefix elimination feature and some bug fixes:

• Add support for the N9 cable headset (bug 1526)
• Gtk UI: Add "Mark episodes as old" menu item
• Support for Vimeo video feeds (bug 1529)
• Common prefix elimination improvements
• Don't purge in-progress downloads (bug 1534)
• Gtk UI: Add padding right to the pill (bug 1533)
• Auth: Allow "@" in login username for feeds (bug 1521)
• YouTube: Duration parsing for channel feeds
• Various UX improvements for the Harmattan QML UI

Detailed ChangeLog: gpodder.org/changelog/3.0.3

Download: gpodder-3.0.3.tar.gz
md5sum:  9f3d092c4f29221e08db72d86ae034ef
sha1sum: 00bbdf281c4e0cfb3ee2b8ba02bc2c47d574d54f

For packages in distributions, see the downloads page.

Please note that the Desktop version of gPodder 3 does not yet contain the MP3 player syncing feature. Users depending on MP3 player syncing are recommended to stay on gPodder 2.20 until we get MP3 player syncing into the 3.x releases. See this blog post for more information and add your use cases and offer for volunteering to this wiki page. Thanks for your help!