subject: Ecasound 2.9.1 released 1. Summary of changes in this release ------------------------------------- Bug fixed with ai-remove/ao-remove. Regression fixed in ALSA PCM draining logic. Many minor bugs have been fixed. 2. What is Ecasound? -------------------- Ecasound is a software package designed for multitrack audio processing. It can be used for simple tasks like audio playback, recording and format conversions, as well as for multitrack effect processing, mixing, recording and signal recycling. Ecasound supports a wide range of audio inputs, outputs and effect algorithms. Effects and audio objects can be combined in various ways, and their parameters can be controlled by operator objects like oscillators and MIDI-CCs. A versatile console mode user-interface is included in the package. Primary platform for running Ecasound is GNU/Linux. Ecasound can also be run on many UNIX-derived systems such as FreeBSD, Mac OS X and Solaris. Limited support for Windows is available through Cygwin. Ecasound is licensed under the GPL. The Ecasound Control Interface (ECI) is licensed under the LGPL. 3. Changes in 2.9.1 release --------------------------- * Bugfixes to ALSA PCM output, ecatools, ECI ai-remove/ao-remove commands, '-t' option. See NEWS file and git history. * Ecasound now compiled with SUSv3 (-D_XOPEN_SOURCE=600). Full list of changes is available at: - http://nosignal.fi/ecasound/history.php 4. Interface and configuration file changes in 2.9.1 series ----------------------------------------------------------- None. 5. Contributors to 2.9.1 series ------------------------------- Patches - Accepted code, documentation and build system changes ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Extracted with 'git-shortlog -s': v2.9.1: 2 Alessandro Ghedini 24 Kai Vehmanen Bug Hunting - Reports that led to bugfixes (items closed) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ v2.9.1 * Knut Petersen (3) multiple issues with ALSA drainining logic added to 2.8.0 bug in -t/cs-set-length * Rocco / linuxmedia4 (1) bug in ai-remove/ao-remove * Brett Koonce (1) build error with Mac XCode 5.x and SUSv2/_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 * Julien Claassen (1) invalid design-by-contract warnings Feature suggestions - Ideas that led to new features (items) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ No features implemented. 6. Links and files ------------------ Web site (and mirrors): http://nosignal.fi/ecasound (fi) http://ecasound.seul.org (us) http://ecasound.sourceforge.net (us) Source package: http://nosignal.fi/ecasound/download.php ecasound-2.9.1.tar.gz, md5sum: 13c7be1e4eddc0bbf3792dc17777e465 List of distributions with maintained Ecasound support: See http://nosignal.fi/ecasound/download.php --