Kwave / News: Recent posts

0.7.5 [2005-12-31]

• draw signal in a different color set when not selected
• bugfix: solved deadlock situation when starting a plugin
  while another plugin was still running
• workaround for deadlock when trying to close the current
  file while a plugin is still running
• bugfix: delete range only in selected tracks
• thrown over board the idea of using gstreamer due to serious license
  issues, we will wait until KDEMM is out (KDE-4) instead.

0.7.4 [2005-10-16]

• recording via ALSA
• support for the silently changed API of libFLAC++ v1.1.2
  (closes sourceforge bug #1243707 + debian bug #289953)
• fixed support of MMX / SSE detection on X64_64 architecture
  (closes sourceforge bug #1244320 and debian bugs #288781 +
  #327501)
• decided to support gstreamer as streaming engine
  in future versions (will make v0.8 if Kwave is aRts-free)
• fixed some German translations
  (closes debian bug #313790 and bug #314000)

0.7.3 [2005-05-26]

• playback via ALSA
• completely new playback settings dialog, with support for aRts,
  ALSA and OSS
• playback plugin: play a test sound
• record plugin: detect when device is alread open, now no longer
  blocks. Show an error message.
• smoother signal display in overview mode (no gaps) and improved
  polyline mode
• replaced some of Kwave's multithreading classes with classes
  from Qt
• compiles under SuSE-9.3
• ebuild file for Gentoo Linux

0.7.2 [2004-12-31]

• big rework of the internal streaming/storage subsystem,
  support for multiple stripes.
  Makes a big speedup when handling large files!
  Creating an empty 512MB file before: over 350 sec,
  now: about 25 sec (on my system)
• optimized versions of memcpy() for ix86 (using MMX, MMXEXT,
  3DNOW, SSE, SSE2) and for PowerPC, copied from the xine project
• some support for X86_64
• bugfix: in memory setup plugin, set virtual memory limit only if
  the limit has been enabled (checkbox is clicked)
• bugfix: clipping in Ogg import filter was incorrect
• speedups: import of Ogg and MP3 files improved
• removed code copied from the GSL library, link against the
  shared library instead
• added target "package-messages" to the toplevel Makefile,
  for translators... read more

0.7.1 [2004-07-10]

• FLAC (Free Lossness Audio Codec) import/export plugin
• speedups for loading / saving files
• removed our own copy of libmad from the source tree, now it
  should be available in all common distributions
• implemented pre-recording
• implemented recording time limit
• bugfix: minor bug in the recording state machine
• bugfix: solved some layout issues in the about- and sonagram plugins
• bugfix: cancel while saving to .ogg works now
• update of the online documentation, many screenshots
• improved Makefile dependencies of the plugins, now parallel builds
  also work and speed up the creation of plugins

Here the changes:

0.7.0 [2003-12-01]

• first version with recording functionality (still alpha)

• removed workaround for uic invocation

• bugfix: handling of persistent and unique
  plugins was wrong, which caused playback
  to work only in the first main window instance

• added project files for kdevelop-3

Here a summary of the changes:

• new plugin: "pitch_shift"
• new plugin: "lowpass"
• new plugin: "notch_filter", contrinuted by Dave Flogeras
• included a bugfixed version of the synth_pitch_shift aRts plugin
• new feature: "pre-listen", first implementation in pitch_shift plugin
• ported to work with Qt-3.1 without Qt-2 compatibility, also compiles with -DQT_NO_COMPAT -DQT_CLEAN_NAMESPACE

Here a brief summary of the changes:

• works with KDE-3.1
• many improvements on the build system. Now compiles under Debian,
  Mandrake, RedHat, Gentoo and SuSE
• starting up with last window size
• Xt toolkit option for geometry works again, including workaround
  for bug in KDE3's geometry management.
  example: "kwave -geometry 800x600"
• bugfix: select to left selected one sample less then needed
• volume plugin: simple clipping
• volume plugin: mode for "multiply with /divide through factor"
• newsignal and selectrange plugin: got rid of KDoubleNumInput and
  it's weird display and entry behaviour
• selectrange plugin: also select start position of selection
• can use libmad and libaudiofile from the host system if usable
• show the fileinfo plugin when saving under a different mime type... read more

This is the first version that no longer supports KDE2. Here some of the most important new features:

• import of MP3 files
• import/export of Ogg/Vorbis files
• plugin for volume control
• now compiles with gcc-3.2

I just added some packages for RedHat 7.3 on the download page.
thanks to Angles Puglisi for contributing

this little bugfix release contains some corrections to the french translation and should also work around or fix some build problems.

due to some strange compile problems and some errors in the french translation I decided to replace the v0.6.4 binaries with new fixed ones.

This will be the last version for KDE2 and KDE3.
Following releases will only support KDE3 !

the major changes:

• support for different file formats / integrated libaudiofile

• auto-repair for structurally damaged wav files

• some changes to the gui

• added "select range" plugin

thanks to Angles Puglisi <devel@aminvestments.com> for packaging the rpms!

contributed by
Aurelien Jarno <aurel32@debian.org>

the new features are:
simple drag and drop,
french translation,
handling of "signal modified",
shows error message and aborts if loading failed

The Kwave developer mailing list has been moved to SourceForge. Please visit the following page for (un)subscribing: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kwave-devel

thanks to
Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
for contributing

thanks to Gilles CAULIER for contributing

now Kwave is (internally) able to make use of aRts plugins and so the development should go on a bit faster.

mary xmas !

since SourceForge's support for FTP services is discontinued, I moved all files to the new file release system. This seems to be much faster and more reliable.

this version fixed a bug in the signal management that caused segmentation faults under some circumstances. Please upgrade if you still use v0.6.1-0 or earlier.

This is the first version for Qt-2 and KDE-2. It's intended to be used only for testing. More complete and usable releases will follow soon...

I am currently working on getting Kwave ready for distribution and add some features. The 0.6.0-alpha version is intended only for evaluation and should get out until the end of this month...

since january this year, the work for the next kwave version is in heavy progress. It will be nearly a rewrite, but the user interface should not change much.

So if you are a user and want to check out via CVS, please check out the version tagged with "Release-0_5_5".