So, time for gPodder 4 to graduate to release level. We've been using and testing it for the last few weeks on Sailfish OS and Blackberry 10, and are happy with the first release.
This is mostly a source release, with packages for Sailfish OS and Blackberry 10 being available in the respective stores hopefully soon. For Sailfish OS, we also provide a RPM package directly from gpodder.org, so you can get your podcast fix right away.
Download: gpodder-core-4.0.0.tar.gz
md5sum: d3baf0268edbdb3b25b6549154edc39d
sha1sum: 6d0781c9a28899aa2824ff9830a6ece42f979758
Download: gpodder-ui-qml-4.0.0.tar.gz
md5sum: ebf84682f5375b0b141c8d1d2a28aeae
sha1sum: c240ff407eefb17cf0ef5e969adce681fc78184a
Download: harbour-org.gpodder.sailfish-4.0.0-9.noarch.rpm
md5sum: b690cbf2d1d18a88991506bcb767d979
sha1sum: b7f6a39bf4900d0bd352179c3b71ca05b6067ecd
This is only the beginning; stay tuned for regular gPodder updates and fixes. Of course, we'll also update and maintain gPodder 3.x for users not covered by gPodder 4 at the moment. We expect gPodder 3 and gPodder 4 to run in parallel for quite some time, they cover different target audiences.
If you are using gPodder's CLI UI ("gpo") only and don't need the gPodder 3 Gtk UI, it is included in gpodder-core 4.0.0 and has got some nice clean-ups and features - give it a try!
2014-03-08
gPodder 3.6.1 "Little Orphan Airplane" released
This is a bugfix release in the 3.6.x series, fixing a bug in YouTube integration that was found only a few days after the 3.6.0 release. Two other small fixes are also included in this release.
Download: gpodder-3.6.1.tar.gz
md5sum: f4765a8ecf4f216fe634709ed66417cb
sha1sum: 203ecfbe37ad2b6dc8de00c88eabc99e9194253f
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. For this release, special thanks go out to Andreas Piesk for providing the YouTube fix.
- Fix YouTube integration (bug 1887)
- Desktop file: Add prefix to path (bug 1618)
- Makefile: Use LC_ALL=C to have C-locale dates in manpage
Download: gpodder-3.6.1.tar.gz
md5sum: f4765a8ecf4f216fe634709ed66417cb
sha1sum: 203ecfbe37ad2b6dc8de00c88eabc99e9194253f
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. For this release, special thanks go out to Andreas Piesk for providing the YouTube fix.
2014-02-27
gPodder 3.6.0 "Population: Zero" released
Time for another release of the stable gPodder 3.x release series. This release is recommended for all users.
Download: gpodder-3.6.0.tar.gz
md5sum: 1867850208964cb9121cd13daaad7c24
sha1sum: 211e4aa68b3cbd42d7b7f5d8dd3deecbb7efcd22
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. For this release, special thanks go out to patch contributors: Andreas Piesk, Ben Hummon, Dov Feldstern, Joseph Wickremasinghe, Tony Mancill, Wes Morgan and zombie.
- Bugfixes and packaging additions
- Various YouTube-related fixes
- Add manpage for gpodder-migrate2tres
- Fix FreeBSD network detection (bug 1730)
- Fix double episode download bug
- gpodder.net-related fixes if sync is not enabled
- Gtk UI
- Update shownotes behaviour
- Show duration column instead of size by default
- Move podcast list view options to preferences dialog
- Gtk status icon extension: Add option for progress bar
- Display episode's last played position (not only duration)
- Do not save maximized window position to configuration
- Model
- Fix problem with migrated databases
- Play info string for finished episodes contains duration
- Do not add files without filename
- iPod Synchronization
- Alpha release by Joseph Wickremasinghe
- Device Synchronization
- Require eyed3 version 0.7 (Fixes #100)
- Internationalization and localization
- Update translation templates from source
- Updated German translation
Download: gpodder-3.6.0.tar.gz
md5sum: 1867850208964cb9121cd13daaad7c24
sha1sum: 211e4aa68b3cbd42d7b7f5d8dd3deecbb7efcd22
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. For this release, special thanks go out to patch contributors: Andreas Piesk, Ben Hummon, Dov Feldstern, Joseph Wickremasinghe, Tony Mancill, Wes Morgan and zombie.
2014-02-07
gPodder 4 QML UI on on Blackberry 10
While for Sailfish OS, we do a native UI, the Blackberry 10 version of gPodder will at the moment not feature a native UI due to the native UI (Cascades) not being available for Qt 5 yet. Instead, we will use our own QML UI Reference Implementation, which shares common code with the Sailfish OS UI, and just uses plain QtQuick 2.0 elements and a custom UI Component set specifically for gPodder.
Powered by the Open Iconic icon set and Source Sans Pro, the QML Reference UI takes gPodder onto a new set of platforms, while still keeping some of the patterns we have established with the Harmattan (Nokia N9) version of gPodder:
All this runs nicely on any system where Python 3 and Qt 5 is available. For glue, we use PyOtherSide, which has recently got its first public 1.1.0 release, and is now well-documented over at readthedocs.org.
In summary, we're making good progress on gPodder 4 for both Sailfish OS and Blackberry 10. Once we've release gPodder 4 for those platforms, we might want to look into porting it to other platforms.
Powered by the Open Iconic icon set and Source Sans Pro, the QML Reference UI takes gPodder onto a new set of platforms, while still keeping some of the patterns we have established with the Harmattan (Nokia N9) version of gPodder:
- Playback color is "blue", play/pause right from the episode list, playback progress subtly displayed inside the episode item; currently-playing episode item highlighted in blue
- Download color is "green", download progress is displayed on the episode item
- Separate play page (now in the "blue" playback color scheme) with a progress bar, but also seek buttons for going 10 seconds and 1 minute in both directions - skip advertisements or talk segments easily, or skip back to rehearse
- Adding subscriptions by directly entering the feed URL, with some shortcuts (e.g. "fb:" for
- feedburner-based URLs, etc...) or by using the gpodder.net search feature
All this runs nicely on any system where Python 3 and Qt 5 is available. For glue, we use PyOtherSide, which has recently got its first public 1.1.0 release, and is now well-documented over at readthedocs.org.
In summary, we're making good progress on gPodder 4 for both Sailfish OS and Blackberry 10. Once we've release gPodder 4 for those platforms, we might want to look into porting it to other platforms.
2014-02-05
podcastparser 0.2.1 released
podcastparser is a simple, fast and efficient podcast parser written in Python. This library is a dependency of gPodder 4, and is used for parsing RSS and Atom feeds there, replacing feedparser used in gPodder 3 and earlier. Advantages of podcastparser include smaller size and better performance (especially on mobile devices) for podcast parsing, as well as support for some XML extensions for podcasts (e.g. iTunes Podcast).
Changes in version 0.2.1:
md5sum: 0ff9614417830c5217d851121d23b1bf
sha1sum: 35acce15063944cff35241ec7afe81245a6c5e06
Changes in version 0.2.1:
- First official release
- Added support for Atom feeds (in 0.2.0)
- Updated documentation and new website
md5sum: 0ff9614417830c5217d851121d23b1bf
sha1sum: 35acce15063944cff35241ec7afe81245a6c5e06
2014-01-30
gPodder 4 on Sailfish OS - progress report (pt 2)
It's time for another gPodder-on-Sailfish OS update. Since last time, there have been some improvements to the three modules that together result in gPodder for Sailfish: core, ui-qml and sailfish.
The core is now fully complying with the XDG Base Directory specification, which isn't only important for Harbour requirements, but also makes gPodder behave nicer on Desktop Linux (if you still care about where gPodder puts its data, use symlinks or the still-supported $GPODDER_HOME and $GPODDER_DOWNLOAD_DIR variables).
In the ui-qml module, which serves as glue code between the native frontend UI, using PyOtherSide and the gPodder core, new pass-through functions have been added for deleting episodes (ef279bbd), toggling the "new" flag (3579f4bf) and renaming podcasts as well as changing podcast sections (d267582a).
And finally, the Sailfish Silica UI variant of gPodder has received some love, with added features, Silica-ization (e.g. the Subscribe page is now a dialog, and you can swipe to confirm instead of relying on a normal button) and some layout fixes.
Here's a video of the current development version:
The gPodder 4 development version is not yet ready for prime time, so if you want to try it out already, you have to clone (--recursive, to also clone the submodules automatically) it from source. Make sure you have PyOtherSide and Python 3 installed on your Sailfish OS device. For development, there's a convenient "dev_symlinks.sh" script that will create symlinks so you can run it directly from a source checkout. Rsync the source tree to your device via ssh, then start by pointing qmlscene at the harbour-org.gpodder.sailfish.qml file. Once gPodder 4 gets a bit more stable and feature-complete, and once Harbour gains support for PyOtherSide and Python 3, the plan is to put gPodder into the Jolla Store for easy downloading onto devices.
The core is now fully complying with the XDG Base Directory specification, which isn't only important for Harbour requirements, but also makes gPodder behave nicer on Desktop Linux (if you still care about where gPodder puts its data, use symlinks or the still-supported $GPODDER_HOME and $GPODDER_DOWNLOAD_DIR variables).
In the ui-qml module, which serves as glue code between the native frontend UI, using PyOtherSide and the gPodder core, new pass-through functions have been added for deleting episodes (ef279bbd), toggling the "new" flag (3579f4bf) and renaming podcasts as well as changing podcast sections (d267582a).
And finally, the Sailfish Silica UI variant of gPodder has received some love, with added features, Silica-ization (e.g. the Subscribe page is now a dialog, and you can swipe to confirm instead of relying on a normal button) and some layout fixes.
Here's a video of the current development version:
The gPodder 4 development version is not yet ready for prime time, so if you want to try it out already, you have to clone (--recursive, to also clone the submodules automatically) it from source. Make sure you have PyOtherSide and Python 3 installed on your Sailfish OS device. For development, there's a convenient "dev_symlinks.sh" script that will create symlinks so you can run it directly from a source checkout. Rsync the source tree to your device via ssh, then start by pointing qmlscene at the harbour-org.gpodder.sailfish.qml file. Once gPodder 4 gets a bit more stable and feature-complete, and once Harbour gains support for PyOtherSide and Python 3, the plan is to put gPodder into the Jolla Store for easy downloading onto devices.
2014-01-04
gPodder 4 on Sailfish OS - progress report
Back in action, we have some small progress to report on gPodder 4's Sailfish OS port: The QML UI has now been mostly converted to use Sailfish Silica, so work can now progress on finishing features and polishing up the UI. The plan is to get gPodder into Jolla Store, which will happen as soon as it's mostly feature-complete (day to day usable) and once PyOtherSide is a supported API in Jolla Harbour (which is a work in progress also).
The source code can be found at http://github.com/gpodder/gpodder-sailfish (you can use "git clone --recursive" to also check out the submodules in one go).
The research work done on the podcastparser library really pays off - compared to the feedparser-based parser used in gPodder 2 and gPodder 3, gPodder 4's podcastparser parses most feeds almost instantly on a WLAN connection. Add to that the nice asynchronous nature of PyOtherSide, and you get a really fast application for which most users probably can't tell the difference between a Python-based and C++-based Silica application.
The source code can be found at http://github.com/gpodder/gpodder-sailfish (you can use "git clone --recursive" to also check out the submodules in one go).
The research work done on the podcastparser library really pays off - compared to the feedparser-based parser used in gPodder 2 and gPodder 3, gPodder 4's podcastparser parses most feeds almost instantly on a WLAN connection. Add to that the nice asynchronous nature of PyOtherSide, and you get a really fast application for which most users probably can't tell the difference between a Python-based and C++-based Silica application.
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