libmygpo-qt 1.0.3 released, new Git repository location

Our resident gpodder.net C++ client master Stefan returns with another release announcement: The Amarok team has released Amarok 2.4.1, it's the first widespread application to use libmygpo-qt. Thanks for all the feedback since libmygpo-qt 1.0.2 - it's time again for a new bugfix release, so here it is: libmygpo-qt 1.0.3 :)

If you are using the Git repository, please be aware that since this release, the Git repository URL for libmygpo-qt has changed - the library now lives inside the "gpodder" project on Github (other parts of the gPodder ecosystem will move to this location shortly when new versions are released): https://github.com/gpodder/libmygpo-qt

Changes in libmygpo-qt 1.0.3:

• All private classes used in libmygpo-qt were moved into their own header files (name_p.h) instead of having them in the .cpp files
• UrlBuilder now uses the fast string concatenation of Qt
• Some unneeded files were removed (RequestHandlerTest & tests/Makefile.man)
• Fixed a bug in the build system
• General cleanup of unnecessary #include statements
  

Source tarball: libmygpo-qt.1.0.3.tar.gz
md5sum: 5f5995a2e335a3f47487d9b25ef3a16e
sha1sum: 49bbcb886cdb215513ea0e54efb8a488dcc88749

For more information about libmygpo-qt, have a look at the libmygpo-qt wiki.

gPodder 2.15 packages now available for Ubuntu and Windows

gPodder 2.15 has been released one week ago, and since then, packages have slowly trickled into distributions, with Maemo 4 (N800, N810) and Debian unstable being the first ones to receive the updates. For Maemo 5, the package has been in Extras-Testing since the release day, but the 10-day quarantine period for updated packages to enter Extras is not over yet, so you have to wait a few more days.

Updated packages of gPodder are now available from the gPodder Ubuntu PPA and a new Windows package has also been uploaded and is now available for download.

gPodder 2.15 "Night of Desirable Objects" released

A new episode in the stable 2.x release series of your favorite podcatcher is out: Version 2.15 - "Night of Desirable Objects" - brings some bug fixes and translation updates:

• Sanitize filename when saving to folder (bug 1317)
• Remove gstreamer track length detection (bug 1316)
• Win32: Fix issues with backslashes in commands
• Better generation of one-line description
• Fix bug when different podcasts have the same GUID (Maemo bug 12094)
• GTK UI: Fix podcast directory dialog layout
• Translation updates:
  
  • French translation of gpodder.desktop (by Vysserk3)
  • Galician (by Gonçalo Cordeiro)
  • Norwegian Bokmål (by Jim Nygård)
  • Spanish (by Jorge Suárez de Lis)

A detailed ChangeLog is available at gpodder.org/changelog/2.15.

Download: gpodder-2.15.tar.gz
md5sum: e601b8c8cbb09acd5a33f44de6e67edf
sha1sum: 06db4d231b05187abcfc3c36b1e1460498a4b6db

Thanks to all contributors, translators, bug reporters, donators, flattr'ers, packagers and users of gPodder who have made this release possible and great :)

gPodder as a RSS reader

Eric Le Lay has been working on modding gPodder to work as a normal RSS reader for non-podcast news feeds. As announced on gpodder-devel this week, he has now published a guide on what he had to change to get it working, including a Git repository on Github. His changes include some nice ideas that might be worth merging back into mainline gPodder, although our goal is still to be a great podcatcher only and no news reader. Here's a screenshot of Eric's modified gPodder, with shownotes embedded in the main window:

Drafting the new podcast directory dialog

Since last year, our gpodder.net web service has gained lots of features, including text search and tagging. The official gPodder podcast client doesn't yet support all those features in its UI, and so I've been looking to redesign the podcast directory ("Find new podcasts" / "Discover new podcasts") dialog:

The first draft (which you can see at the top left) was a wizard-style dialog that guides the user through different steps. The second one (on which the final prototype is based) adds a two-pane layout with different sources in the left pane, and controls and the list of available podcasts in the right pane. This allows us to add more services and directories in the future and also adds a nice place for us to add "bookmarks" to OPML files on the web (i.e. you could bookmark the public OPML URLs of your friends' gpodder.net podcast subscriptions). Here's the final (implementation-specific) Gtk+ UI draft:
This new dialog will be part of the 3.x gPodder releases, and as soon as some details are worked out, the code will land in the "tres" branch of our Git repository. Here's a screenshot of the current prototype implementation:

gPodder 2.14 now available for Ubuntu, Maemo and Windows

The latest release of gPodder is now available in Debian unstable, in Ubuntu (via the gPodder Ubuntu PPA), for Maemo 5 (Fremantle, N900) in Extras-Testing and for Windows. Packages for Maemo 4 (Diablo, N800 and N810) have been uploaded to the Extras Autobuilder and will be available soon. Happy podcatching! :)

gPodder 2.14 "The Friendliest of Fruits" released

We're back with another release in the 2.x series of gPodder releases. While we're still brewing cool stuff in the "tres" branch of our Git repository, it's time to revisit the old stable branch and get some fixes out there for you to enjoy :)

Here's a list of changes:

• Various tray icon-related fixes (bug 1253, with contributions by Pavel Puchkin)
• Decode strings to unicode before slicing (bug 1277)
• Handle None in replace_from_channel (bug 1291)
• Updated French translation (by Vysserk3)
• Remove partial files that are already downloaded completely
• Fix YouTube-related download problems (HTTP 400, bug 1308)
• Maemo 5: Add per-podcast keep settings ("Keep episodes")
• Maemo 5: Re-add "Visit website" button in shownotes dialog
• Fix typos in gpodder.desktop (Debian bug 620438)
• Better GUID tracking with fallback URL (Maemo bug 12073)

You can find a detailed ChangeLog on gpodder.org/changelog/2.14.

Download: gpodder-2.14.tar.gz
md5sum: c63c14938bbaee3753b7a52f9e3435aa
sha1sum: 878f4fb451f76dba31229fb9a23fe6f8e41f333f

Thanks to everyone who was involved in the making of this release :)