2011-10-19

gPodder 2.20 "Neither Here Nor There" released

A new release of gPodder is out - this release is the last 2.x release before the "tres" release. Various bugfixes have been integrated, as well as new artwork merged from the tres branch and some updated translations from Transifex. The most important fixes:
  • Fix download filename with invalid headers (bug 1440)
  • Skip images in Media RSS if audio/video available (bug 1444)
  • Use the standard logging module for liblogger (bug 1435)
  • Fix the annoying AttributeError bug with gPodderWelcome (bug 1021)
You can see a full list of changes at gpodder.org/changelog/2.20.

Download: gpodder-2.20.tar.gz
md5sum: 4c09c1e2c3a3c291b5d1e9d185b59655
sha1sum: 21ae1255c63b69a8da2114d752ded07094097a8e

Please note that with this release, we now host source downloads on gpodder.org, because Berlios.de is shutting down at the end of the year. You can find all source downloads at http://gpodder.org/src/ and also get a specific source tarball via the URL shortcut gpodder.org/source/<version>. If you are a maintainer of a package of gpodder, you might want to update the source tarball link and/or the watchfile to be notified of new releases.

Packages for Maemo 4 and Maemo 5 have already been uploaded to maemo.org, packages for Debian, Ubuntu (PPA) and Windows will follow soon.
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2011-10-17

Planned downtime on October 26th

Our hosting company has informed us that there will be maintenance work on the network for the host on which the gpodder.org website is hosted. Other services should not be affected, but note that there might be problems accessing gpodder.org on October 26th from 12 AM to 6 AM Central European Time. After that, all our services should be back to normal.

Update: I've just received information that this maintenance will also affect the gpodder.net server, and it might also affect the bugtracker/wiki.
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2011-10-15

Future considerations: Gtk+ 3 and Python 3 support

Currently for our Desktop UI, we use PyGTK and GTK+ 2. In recent years and months, GObject Introspection has become available and with it new, dynamic bindings to GObject-based libraries like Gtk. Also, for future releases, the GObject Introspection-based Python bindings will be the only ones available, so it's a good idea to be forward-thinking and trying to see how good we can support gPodder.

I've now started an experimental branch based on the "tres" branch to see how well we can support it today, the result is gPodder running in Gtk 3:


You can grab the (highly experimental and unsupported) code from the tres-gtk3 branch on Github. This also paves the way for a possible upgrade to Python 3 in the future, as PyGObject bindings are already available on Python 3 (I haven't done any elaborate experiments with it apart from some very basic tests, though). However, neither PyGObject support nor Python 3 support will land in the first release of "tres" for practical reasons, but rest assured that we'll make the switch when we think it's a good idea (i.e. when PyGObject bindings are a bit more stable and more widespread in distributions). We will probably also switch to the new bindings first and only after we've stabilized the codebase there, we can then move on to working on the Python 3 support.

Python 3 support is more complicated, though - because some UIs (e.g. the QML UI, which depends on the PySide bindings to Qt) are not yet compatible with Python 3, or lack support elsewhere (e.g. on MeeGo 1.2 Harmattan as found on the N950 or N9, only Python 2.6 is available, with no Python 3 in sight - at least not officially supported). Maybe that's something we can aim for in gPodder 4 then ;)
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2011-09-29

gPodder Usability Tests on Maemo 5

Jarkko Mikael Palonkangas has carried out some user tests with gPodder on Maemo 5, and has now uploaded the resulting videos to YouTube. Please have a look and feel free to comment directly on the videos, because Jarkko can use the feedback and will use it for his Master's thesis:

These videos are also interesting if you haven't seen how the Thinking Aloud method works or if you have not played with gPodder's Maemo 5 UI yet.
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2011-09-15

gPodder 2.19 "The Toast Derivation" released

Before the big release of the "tres" branch as gPodder 3, we have another bugfix release for the stable 2.x series of releases for you. This release fixes various bugs found since the last release in August:
  • Fix empty descriptions in the Soundcloud module
  • Ignore image enclosures for audio/video in Media RSS (bug 1430)
  • Add Spanish and Turkish translations (bug 1420)
The detailed, full ChangeLog is available at gpodder.org/changelog/2.19.

Download: gpodder-2.19.tar.gz
md5sum: cad0cd6b303a38bab1c868b2186d816b
sha1sum: 6ac411241740fc93af165fdfcb355c9b02dcb714

Thanks to all who contributed to this release and reported bugs :)
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2011-09-14

gPodder "tres" Launch Party, 16. September 2011

Even though the "tres" branch has not officially been released yet (and we're not sure if we can make it before the party, but that shouldn't worry you ;)), the time is right for some partying, therefore the gPodder team and friends will meet up this Friday evening, September 16th in Vienna, Austria to celebrate the imminent release of gPodder's "tres" branch.

If you are in town and interested in coming, drop us a line and we'll give you the details how to find us :)
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2011-09-12

libmygpo-qt 1.0.4 released

Summer (and with it Google Summer of Code) is over and Lucas Lira Gomes sucessfully finished his GSoC Project (Integration of gpodder.net into Amarok), so expect to be able to synchronize your podcasts between Amarok & gpodder.net soon ;)

In addition to that, Ari Hannula from Nokia created "Podcasts" for the Nokia N9, which also utilizes libmygpo-qt for synchronizing and searching podcasts.

Thanks to Lucas & Ari, we found (and fixed ;) ) some Bugs in libmygpo-qt, so we hereby announce the availability of libmygpo-qt v1.0.4.

Changes in 1.0.4:
  • fixed a bug with an invalid timestamp when uploading EpisodeActions
  • fixed a bug with a wrong url when retrieving EpisodeActions by Podcast
  • fixed a crash happening on MeeGo because of the deletion of QNetworkReply Pointers
Where to get libmygpo-qt?

Tarball: libmygpo-qt.1.0.4.tar.gz
md5sum: 9c840d6a7dc96055c6eb5a7d36d02a7c
sha1sum: 7d46fcbcc3c0177bc353f8e15b0bff9fd19013e6

Some more important Links for libmygpo-qt:
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