v0.8.12 released

0.8.12 [2014-06-04]

• recording via PulseAudio, by Joerg-Christan Boehme joerg@chaosdorf.de
• bugfix: "Close" button of the record dialog did not save settings
• bugfix: amplify free plugin: untranslated action names in progress bar
• bugfix: sonagram plugin did not honor the windowing function parameter
• bugfix: coherency problems in overview cache
• bugfix: metadata got lost after cut/undo/redo
• bugfix: save/as check against overwriting existing files failed
• bugfix: undo/redo did not work after recording
• bugfix: signal was "modified" after canceled record (empty) / done
• bugfix: wrong calculation of zoom and window geometry at startup
• bugfix: wrong scaling of overview in sonagram window
• bugfix: playback pointer did not update synchronously across tracks
• bugfix: brought back support for optimized memcpy (from xine-lib)
• updated memcpy.c + cpu detection, including AVX assembler support
• new command line option: "--logfile=<FILE>" for logging to a file
• brought back the horizontal scroll bar
• support for swap files to store undo data
• speedup: too many copy-on-write operations, use more const data
• improved robustness against out of memory situations
• memory manager: added statistics for debugging
• memory settings: only use up to 25% of process address space
• internal cleanups: renamed openSampleReader -> openReader,
  fixed signature of Signal/SignalManager::openWriter
• speedup: use stripe list instead of raw data for saving undo data
• debug plugin: added functions "labels_at_stripes", "sawtooth_verify"
  and "dump_metadata"
• automatic defragmentation of stripes
• sonagram plugin: use Qt Concurrent framework -> more than factor 40
  faster on a quad core cpu
• got rid of KDE ThreadWeaver, replaced with Qt Concurrent framework
• debug plugin: added function "fm_sweep"
• workaround for broken WAV files with zeroed fact chunk
• fixed many 32/64 bit issues
• new build target "make wrapper": creates a wrapper script to start Kwave
  for test/debug purpose
• new build target "make dep": creates a binary debian package
  (for personal use and testing purposes)
• mouse wheel + Ctrl: zoom in/out aligns signal to mouse position
• record plugin: level meter is always enabled, simplified dialog
• PulseAudio playback: fixed wrong timeout calculation
• requires at least Qt-4.7 + FLAC-1.2.0