[Gtkpod-questions] libgpod 0.8.2

[Christophe F. <cfe...@gm...>]

Hi,

At long last, I've released libgpod 0.8.2. It's mainly a bug fixes
release and can be downloaded from sourceforge at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gtkpod/files/libgpod/libgpod-0.8/libgpod-0.8.2.tar.bz2/download
As always, if you find bugs with this release, please let the
gtkpod-devel mailing list now. You can find us on freenode in #gtkpod
if you have any questions. And donations are always welcome in order
to buy newer iPod models for more testing/debugging.

iPhone 4/iPod Touch 4/iPad/Nano 6g are still unsupported in this release.
However, libgpod now has a mechanism to dynamically load
a module named $libdir/libgpod/libhashab.so. This will be useful to
easily enable support for these devices if someone comes up with a
way to compute the music database checksum.
The udev helper is now built by default, and the HAL callout is no longer
built by default, use --enable-udev/--with-hal if you need ot change that.

The main changes in the release are :

* fix mono binding on 32 bit systems (Christian Krause)
* better iOS 4.3 support (Martin Szulecki, Nikias Bassen)
* dynamic loader for libhashab.so (Nikias Bassen)
* make smartplaylists case-insensitive to match what iTunes does
* (Christophe Fergeau)
* more robust Shuffle support in udev helper (Christophe Fergeau)
* various compilation fixes and build system improvements (Alexander
  Weinert, Bastien Nocera, Christophe Fergeau)
* bug fixes (phantomjinx, James Burton, Christophe Fergeau)
* updated French translation (Éric Lassauge)

git short-log can be found below :
Adeodato Simó (2):
      fix parsing of timezone on some Classic
      python: add Itdb_Device::timezone_shift to the binding

Alexander Weinert (1):
      fix compilation with --pedantic

Bastien Nocera (2):
      Fix warnings with GCC 4.6
      Require gmodule-2.0 for the blob loading code

Christian Krause (2):
      [mono] fix alignment issues on x86
      fix parsing of SysInfoExtended for nano 6g

Christophe Fergeau (49):
      use autoupdate to modernize configure.ac
      adjust versioning to current autotools pratices
      remove recent playcount file after db writing
      attempt to bring sanity in shuffle generations
      add 4th generation Shuffles
      generate bzip2 tarballs
      Merge branch 'autotools'
      Add ebook support
      fix warning in test compilation
      Merge branch 'next'
      add 8GB Orange Nano 6g serial number
      add 16GB Blue Nano 6g serial number
      add 8GB Blue Nano 6g serial number
      Add 16GB Black Nano 6g serial number
      remove duplicate AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR
      factor common code in hash functions
      fix libgpod version number
      fix nano5g support
      failing to parse recent playcounts isn't fatal
      add more error reporting to sqlite generation
      add more nano6g serial numbers
      use appropriate compile flags for libimobiledevice
      report libimobiledevice dependency in .pc file
      use unsigned int for file size in iTunesDB
      [mono] raise mono versioning since ABI was broken
      python: fix python binding build
      python: allow passing mountpoint to test program
      fix inverted test in playcount check
      make smart playlist string comparisons case-insensitive
      usb: return NULL when nothing could be read from USB
      don't crash on NULL in itdb_sysinfo_properties_free
      udev: handle invalid XML files read from devices
      udev: add g_debug to help diagosing bugs
      udev: set log domain for udev helpers
      udev: rework udev rule to handle Shuffle 4g
      fix (again) creation of non-existing Device dirs
      sqlite: don't leak 'composer' statement
      python: make mountpoint arg optional in examples
      remove internal GChecksum copy
      optionally provide g_int64_{hash,equal}
      add optional g_checksum_reset implementation
      refresh po files
      disable HAL support by default
      enable udev by default
      add --with-udev-dir
      add more flags to make distcheck
      update NEWS for 0.8.2 release
      NEWS: add note about udev/hal changes
      0.8.2 release

James Burton (1):
      fix itdb_free crash

Martin Szulecki (2):
      [sqlitedb] Remove the i_tunes_u column to fix a post process error
      [sqlitedb] Implement iPhoneSortKey and iPhoneSortSection sqlite function

Nikias Bassen (4):
      read genius_cuid (mhsd type 9) and also write it back
      write empty mhsd of type 10
      add hashAB support via external module
      Do not write mhips for mhsd type 5 playlists

phantomjinx (1):
      Fixed memory leaks

Éric Lassauge (1):
      updated French translation

Cheers,

Christophe