Amarok 2.9.0 "Hibernaculum" released

[Stefano Pettini]

Thank you for taking case of the release!

Stefano

On Wed, Mar 7, 2018 at 8:49 PM, Heiko Becker <heirecka at exherbo.org> wrote:

> Hello everybody,
>
> as it may be customary for the upcoming season the Amarok team did some
> spring cleaning and is proud to announce the immediate release of Amarok
> 2.9.0. While we realize that the clock has run out on KDELibs 4 and Qt
> 4, we wanted to bring 20+ bug fixes from 18 contributors to our users
> before the next major release will harness all the shiny new things
> provided by Qt 5 and KDE Frameworks 5. In fact, the port is already
> progressing nicely in the Git 'kf5' branch, which is soon to become the
> new ‘master’ branch. We welcome everybody willing to help out to check
> out the source code and improve the next major version of Amarok!
>
>
> Download:
> ----------------------------------------
> https://download.kde.org/stable/amarok/2.9.0/src/amarok-2.9.0.tar.xz
>
> SHA-256:
> e3678de79db36956bc8588b9905726ace1b9188e7fdf89eaea265f1cb03116fd
> GPG fingerprint:
> D81C0CB38EB725EF6691C385BB463350D6EF31EF
>
>
> List of important changes since 2.8.90:
> -----------------------------------------
> - Fixed "Open Last-fm webpage" of similar artist
> (https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=354849)
> - VFAT-safe file and directory names cannot end with dot
> (https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=388465)
> - Fixed transcoding to AAC format by switching to the latest 'aac'
> ffmpeg encoder (https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=374670)
> - Fix crash during musicbrainz search
> (https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=328359)
> - Fix Gpodder credential service without kwallet
> (https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/122797/)
> - Fix Bug 302299 - Autoscrolling Lyrics are scrolling down if a song is
> rated via Context Browser's Current Track
> (https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=302299)
> - Fix Collection Browser auto-expand after search expanding too little
> (https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=335217)
> - Fix MPRIS2 DesktopEntry value
> (https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=365275)
> - Organize tracks / Guess tags presets persisted properly
> (https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=226144)
> - Use transparent background for lyrics browser
> (https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=314854)
> - Handle numeric fields properly in filter creation dialogs
> (https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=341661)
> - Substitute deprecated MySQL option --myisam-recover
> (https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=354255)
> - Disable non SSL connections in wikipedia applet
> (https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=348313)
> - Fix build with gcc6 (https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=363054)
> - Fix untranslatable string in Organize Collection Dialog
> (https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=331443)
> - Fix for the infinite loop in case a home-burned or old audio CD is
> inserted (https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=339190)
> - Fix tabs applet and change it to use https
> (https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=358408)
> - Fix Taglib version check (https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=351013)
> - Fix amarok build with LibOFA using ffmpeg 3+
> (https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/129626)
> - Make Qt4Webkit optional (https://phabricator.kde.org/D10923)
>
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