gPodder 3.4.0 "Quiet Earth" released

A new release of gPodder 3 is out, this time the first one since about 3 months, and bringing with it some nice improvements and refinements. I hope you'll like this one :) As this release combines the changes of roughly three months of work, the ChangeLog is a bit longer this time.

• QML UI (MeeGo 1.2 Harmattan on the N950 and N9)
• Check for new episodes via "Pull down to refresh"
• Subscribe to new podcast list is now a QML Sheet
• Open show note links in browser (bug 1556)
• Fix back button behavior (bug 1677)
• New episode list model (speeds up scrolling)
• Various smaller clean-ups and UI improvements
• Gtk UI
• Fix wrong artwork in podcast settings (bug 1675)
• Don't auto-update when offline (bug 107)
• Import titles from OPML / directory (bug 1711)
• Integrate shownotes into main window
• Don't require Gtk+ 2.24 in .ui file
• Web UI
• Various improvements to the interface (pull request 17)
• Command-line interface (gpo)
• Align safe_print() with Python 3's print() (bug 1697)
• Added experimental pipe-based IPC interface ("gpo pipe")
• YouTube
• Fix the new 403 issue (bug 1665)
• Gtk UI for video quality selection (pull request 19)
• Add support for https:// links
• Remove dependency on OrderedDict
• Fix downloading on Harmattan
• Extensions
• Improvements to the extension system
• New extension: update_feeds_on_startup (bug 1656)
• New extension: Enqueue in media player (bug 1583)
• Updated: TED Talks Subtitle Downloader Extension
• Groups and submenus in episode list context menu
• Add disable_in=win32 to a few extensions (bug 1729)
• Clean-ups and refactoring
• Remove old api.py module
• Remove podcast_id accessor functions (bug 1696)
• Don't warn about system files on Windows (bug 1712)
• Handle mygpoclient's MissingCredentials exception
• Util: Python 2.6 compatibility fix
• Vacuum minidb-based databases too (bug 1721)
• gpodder.util: Use gpodder.ui.win32 for new code
• Flattr integration
• Reload when pressing play in the shownotes (bug 1684)
• Use util.sanitize_encoding for the flattr payment-url
• Add Flattr option to the episode context menu
• Network connectivity detection
• Basic Offline mode support (bug 107)
• Offline mode detection for OS X (bug 107)
• Linux: Detect PPP as Internet connection (bug 1702)
• Other changes
• Download strategy: Only keep latest (bug 188)
• Download: Rate-limiting for progress updates
• Device sync: Per-podcast sync option (pull request 22)
• Updated translations from source (+German translation)
• Vimeo: Fix downloading of Vimeo videos

As always, a detailed changelog is available at gpodder.org/changelog/3.4.0.

Download: gpodder-3.4.0.tar.gz
md5sum: 1fc04fdc8ff3666316cd7fa74400d30e
sha1sum: 04e079c19a82f8c0f4c154d61921ceb907921e67

For packages in distributions, see the downloads page.

Thanks to all users who supported the gPodder project by providing bug reports, patches, documentation, feedback or donations / Flattrs. Special thanks to our first-time contributors for this release: Andreas Piesk, Chionsas, Daniel Schaal, Josh Mondragon, Sean Munkel and Simon Schubert - keep those patches coming!