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IT Politics, Rockbox, Technology

Rockbox 3.1

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After three months of work since the last release, we manage to keep the schedule and ship Rockbox 3.1. The list of news since 3.0 include the following:

  • A bitmap scaler was added to Rockbox, which means that album art no longer has to be pre-scaled to the correct dimensions on your computer. See AlbumArt for more information.
  • The calendar plugin which has existed for the Archos units for a long time is now available on all devices equipped with a clock.
  • The spacerocks plugin which was removed from version 3.0 due to a major bug has been brought back.
  • Optimised MP3 decoder on dual-core targets, giving several more hours of battery life in most situations.
  • Optimizations for AAC and APE decoding
  • Backlight fading is now available on most targets.
  • When recording in mono, you can now chose between recording the left or right channel, or a mix of both.
  • It is now possible to configure which items are shown in the Quick Screen.
  • Several new features were added to the WPS syntax
  • The build system received a major overhaul. This only matters for people who compile their own builds.

Of course you can find a more detailed list in the MajorChanges wiki page, and the full release notes for 3.1.

My personal contribution has been very tiny this time around and I’ve basically just built the release builds and admined the distributed build system somewhat.

Rockbox

cURL and libcurl

curl 7.19.1

Trying hard to maintain the bimonthly release schedule we’ve been keeping up with for quite some time by now, we therefore now proudly announce the release of curl and libcurl 7.19.1

This release includes at least 24 bug fixes and the following changes:

Development, Rockbox, Technology

So THAT is the point of releases!

In the Rockbox project we’ve been using a rather sophisticated build system for many years that provide updated binary packages to the public after every single commit. We also provide daily built zips, manuals, fonts and other extras directly off the subversion server fully automatic every day.

I used to be in the camp that thought that this is a very good system to the extent that it makes ordinary version-numbered releases somewhat unnecessary since everyone can easily get recent downloads whenever they want anyway. We also had a general problem getting a release done.

But as you all know by now, we shipped Rockbox 3.0 the other day. And man did it hit the news!

lifehacker.com, gizmodo.com, engadget.com, slashdot.org, golum.de, boingboing.net, reddit.com and others helped us really put our web server to a crawl. The 4 days following the release, we got roughly 160,000 more visits on our site than usual, 5 times the normal amount (200,000 visits compared to the “normal” 40,000).

Of course, as a pure open source project with no company or money involved anywhere, we don’t exactly need new users but we of course want more developers and hopefully we do reach out to a few new potential contributors when we become known to a larger amount of people.

So I’m now officially convinced: doing this release was a good thing!

cURL and libcurl

curl and libcurl 7.19.0

With almost 40 described bug fixes curl and libcurl 7.19.0 come flying with a range of new things, including the following:

  • curl_off_t gets its size/typedef somewhat differently than before. This may cause an ABI change for you. See lib/README.curl_off_t for a full explanation.
  • Added CURLINFO_PRIMARY_IP
  • Added CURLOPT_CRLFILE and CURLE_SSL_CRL_BADFILE
  • Added CURLOPT_ISSUERCERT and CURLE_SSL_ISSUER_ERROR
  • curl’s option parser for boolean options reworked
  • Added –remote-name-all
  • Now builds for the INTEGRITY operating system
  • Added CURLINFO_APPCONNECT_TIME
  • Added test selection by key word in runtests.pl
  • the curl tool’s -w option support the %{ssl_verify_result} variable
  • Added CURLOPT_ADDRESS_SCOPE and scope parsing of the URL according to RFC4007
  • Support –append on SFTP uploads (not with OpenSSH, though)
  • Added curlbuild.h and curlrules.h to the external library interface

We’ve worked really hard to get this to be a really solid and fine release. I hope it’ll show.

Open Source

c-ares 1.5.3

I’m happy to announce the release of c-ares 1.5.3. c-ares is an asynchronous name resolver and somewhat generic DNS library with a liberal MIT-style license.

The news this time include:

  • fix adig sample application compilation failure on some systems
  • fix pkg-config reporting of private libraries needed for static linking
  • fallback to gettimeofday when monotonic clock is unavailable at run-time
  • ares_gethostbyname() fallback from AAA to A records with CNAME present
  • allow –enable-largefile and –disable-largefile configurations
  • configure process no longer needs nor checks size of curl_off_t
  • library will now be built with _REENTRANT symbol defined if needed
  • Improved configure detection of number of arguments for getservbyport_r
  • Improved query-ID randomness
  • Validate that DNS response address matches the request address
  • fix acountry sample application compilation failure on some systems

I’m also happy to see that the development version of Wireshark is currently using c-ares.

If you’re a graphics person, we’ll appreciate some kind of logo/symbol thing for the project!

cURL and libcurl

curl 7.18.2 and lunch

Just minutes ago I uploaded the curl and libcurl 7.18.2 package to the curl site. There are a few new changes that people might just like, but most importantly there are many bug fixes.

And by a happy coincidence, a bunch of #curl visitors (the irc channel on freenode) are going to meet up for lunch on tuesday next week (June 10th) in Stockholm, Sweden. If you’re a curl hacker or curl fan and in the proximity that day, feel free to get in touch and join us!

cURL and libcurl

curl and libcurl 7.18.1

Mainly thanks to the 22 friends named in the release notes, curl and libcurl 7.18.1 was released today with the news and fixes that should prove this the best curl and libcurl versions ever – I guess we always have to believe that our latest is the greatest, why else would we release it?

cURL

The release notes identifies 23 bug fixes we did during the two months since the last release, and the news we introduce include these goodies:

  • added support for “HttpOnly” cookies
  • ‘make ca-bundle’ downloads and generates an updated ca bundle file
  • we no longer distribute or install a ca cert bundle
  • SSLv2 is now disabled by default for SSL operations
  • the test509-style setting URL in callback is officially no longer supported
  • support a full chain of certificates in a given PKCS12 certificate
  • resumed transfers work with SFTP
  • added type checking macros for curl_easy_setopt() and curl_easy_getinfo(), watch out for new warnings in code using libcurl (needs gcc-4.3 and currently only works in C mode)
  • curl_easy_setopt(), curl_easy_getinfo(), curl_share_setopt() and curl_multi_setopt() uses are now checked to use exactly three arguments
  • –with-ca-path=DIR configure option allows to set an openSSL CApath instead of a default ca bundle.

As usual, you can download it here.

cURL and libcurl

curl feature freeze March 20 2008

It is yet again time to pause the add-new-features-craze in order to settle down and fix a few more remaining bugs before we go ship another curl and libcurl release in the beginning of April.

cURL

So at March 20 we hold back and only fix bugs for about 2 weeks until we release curl and libcurl 7.18.1.

The only currently mentioned flaw in TODO-RELEASE to fix before this release is the claimed race condition in win32 gethostbyname_thread but since the reporter doesn’t respond anymore and we can’t repeat the problem it is deemed to just be buried and forgotten.

Other problems currently mentioned on the mailing list is a POST problem with digest and read callbacks and a mysterious bad progress callbacks for uploads, but none of them seem very serious and thus terribly important to get fixed in case they should turn out hard-to-fix.

Yes, I picked the date on purpose as that is the magic date in this project. Especially this year.