New In 0810

Here's a list of new features and bug fixes in the 0810 release. This list is not exhaustive - it is meant to highlight the features most users will notice.

Media

New Features

• Upgrade MythTV to 0.21
  • Add ability to use myth's player from Video scenario, enabling some of myth's playback features such as commercial skipping (Trac: 131)
  • Added ability to choose where to save recordings - including private recordings (Trac: 124)
• Media Metadata
  • Media metadata import feature (SVN: 21538, 21543)
  • Pull metadata from IMDB (Trac: 53, 52)
  • Added button to clear all missing media files from the database (Trac: 6)
  • Added ability to filter out all media with cover art from media sync (Trac: 47)
• On-Orbiter TV Guide
• Play list export feature
• MAME (Arcade Game emulator) game support (Trac 40 SVN: 21567, 21568, 21569, 21570, 21573, 21574, 21597, 21598, 21599, 21603, 21620, and probably others)
• Infrared repeats parameter can now be edited in the web admin
• The playlist editor has been redone, and a Vertical mode added as well
• Playlist export to .m3u and .pls functionality
• New Unmanaged room type allows you to designate a room where no automatically generated scenarios appear. This give you total control over scenarios for that room.
• Added ability to grow ext2/ext3 Software RAIDs from the web admin (SVN: 21687, 21685)
• Added new ability to fix the most common software RAID problem from the web admin. When a drive is kicked from the array, it can be re-added now from the web admin instead of having to fix it with the command line. (Trac: 108 SVN: 21694)
• Media files on CD's or DVD's are automatically detected and imported into the media database (Trac: 141)
• Auto-tagging rules are available on a per-directory basis (Trac: 158)

Bug Fixes

• Media attribute import from Amazon/IMDB is now smarter (Trac: 52)
• Fixed path/filename escaping in web admin (Trac: 57)
• "Docs" scenario removed - no supporting player (Trac: 56, SVN: 21572,)
• Fixed mounting of shares with special characters in their names (Trac: 55)
• Fixed mounting of "non-browsable" samba shares (Trac: 38)
• *.dvd.keys.tar.gz, *mpg.png, and *.mpg.png.tnj are no longer displayed in the web admin
• accompanying *.dvd.keys.tar.gz will follow source file when renaming/deleting from the web admin
• fixed a bug where deleting a performer's picture would delete the file entirely from the system. Now the picture is only deleted if nothing else references it
• fixed similar bug that would permanently delete a picture when disassociating it from a file.
• changing privacy settings via web admin now flags the orbiters to regenerate

Hardware Support

• USB Microphone Support (Trac: 39, 161)
• New Z-Wave driver (Trac: 44, SVN: 21621, 21622, 21623, 21624, 21648)
• Better support for CM11 X-10 module (Trac: 8)
• Mobile orbiter support for S60 v3 devices (Trac: 43)
• Initial support for EnOcean devices (Trac: http://svn.linuxmce.org/trac.cgi/ticket/100)

Other

New Features

• Updated base distribution to Kubuntu 0810 (with standard 2.6.27 kernel - updating as Kubuntu updates)
• Cleaned up many packages so they're as close as possible to (if not the same as) Ubuntu's Apt repository versions
• LinuxMCE can now be installed without an active Internet connection (Trac: 26)
• Cleaned out a lot of hard coded stuff from scripts (SVN: 21582, and others)
• Dutch language support (Trac: 34, 35)
• Enhancements to Climate Control (Trac: 127)
• New Launch Manager (Trac: 48)
• Interactive tool tips in the web admin (Trac: 155)
• New web orbiter option - iOrbiter (Trac: 16)

Bug Fixes

• Scenario Sorting works more reliably (Trac: 140)
• Dynamic DNS now obtains actual external address (Trac: 154)

LinuxMCE Dev Tools

Bug Fixes

• SqlCVS has been fixed and now works

LinuxMCE Project Infrastructure

• Bug tracking now managed by Trac (formerly Mantis)
• New 12-month release schedule
• New servers