Changelog

Features and tweaks

Improve detection of locale issues (default to POSIX when there is a locale conflict on the system)
Improve timeline operation for small clips (disable resizing, only allow move)
Add background color parameter to "Rotate" and "Pan and Zoom" effects
Allow to scroll using the mouse wheel in monitor editing scene
Zoom to mouse when using CTRL + mouse wheel in monitor editing scene
Add support for new slope mode in "Color Selection" effect to allow smooth alpha transition
Introduce grouping of effects; groups can also be saved
Allow dragging an effect to another clip/track
Allow record monitor to go fullscreen
Image sequences can now start at an arbitrary frame (http://kdenlive.org/mantis/view.php?id=2508)
Add automatic clip alignment based on audio (experimental, has to be manually enabled)s
Allow archiving for offline use (only archive proxies)
Offline editing: Allow working on project with only proxies available (http://kdenlive.org/mantis/view.php?id=2509)
Allow rendering to another framerate
Check for missing locale and ask to install instead of opening corrupted project
Allow to open project files manually extracted from archived project
Support dropping a folder in the project tree (http://kdenlive.org/mantis/view.php?id=1288)
Add "select all clips in track" and "select all clips in timeline" features (http://kdenlive.org/mantis/view.php?id=1950)
Put audio effects in subcategories to avoid uberlong menus (http://kdenlive.org/mantis/view.php?id=2436)
Support for project metadata (can be embedded in rendered file)
Add Online Resource Widget allowing easy search and download of online services (freesound, openclipart, archive.org)
Introduce MLT clip analysis to get auto normalize data in sox gain effect
Connect recording to audio scopes
Add audio only recording (works while playing)
Add extract zone function: part of clip is copied to new file without re-encoding
Introduce generic job framework to process clips
Improve the Choose color widget: Use less space and make it easier to pick the average color value from an area
Add GUI for effect Dynamic Text: Allows to display timecode/framecount and other data
Rework effect stack: All effects are shown at once and are collapsible
Add two different video stabilizers
Add IIR Blur GUI
Add date column to project tree

Bugfixes

Fix monitor effect scene sometimes forcing monitor minimum size
Fix clip move sometimes giving error when it should work
Fix custom effects not considering capital letters in name (http://kdenlive.org/mantis/view.php?id=2580)
Fix script rendering when script name contains whitespace
Ensure clip in project tree is visible after rename (scroll if necessary) (http://kdenlive.org/mantis/view.php?id=2563)
Fix monitor scene never resetting scrollbars
Fix issues with transitions when inserting track (http://kdenlive.org/mantis/view.php?id=2477)
Fix some GUI elements not responding to color theme change
Do not hide render profile list when there is only one item to avoid confusion (http://kdenlive.org/mantis/view.php?id=2543)
Fix consecutive error messages overwriting each other (http://www.kdenlive.org/mantis/view.php?id=2519)
Fix crash when editing properties of several missing clips
Fix vectorscope for 24b RGB images (http://kdenlive.org/mantis/view.php?id=2478)
Fix archiving sometimes not saving playlist clips and subclips (http://kdenlive.org/mantis/view.php?id=2475)
Fix archiving feature not saving playlist clips and slowmotion clips inside them (http://kdenlive.org/mantis/view.php?id=2475)
Fix crash recovery feature issues with long or non UTF-8 filenames (http://kdenlive.org/mantis/view.php?id=2441, http://kdenlive.org/mantis/view.php?id=2450)
Fix rendering jobs sometimes not starting
Fix crash on proxy creation (concurrency issue) (http://kdenlive.org/mantis/view.php?id=2471)
Fix zone playing (http://kdenlive.org/mantis/view.php?id=2468)
Fix click on monitor sometimes not triggering play
Fix crash when moving a folder and a clip in project tree (http://kdenlive.org/mantis/view.php?id=2458)
Fix color change not working in title widget (http://kdenlive.org/mantis/view.php?id=2459)
Fix slideshow clips created with invalid frame duration
Fix profile warning with clips that have 1088 pixels height
Fix unnecessary proxy reload on document load
Fix detection of broken render scripts

Key Features

* Alternate sample rates

* Jack detection

* Echo cancellation: WebRTC canceller, automatic gain control, drift compensation

* Virtual Surround module

* Xen Paravirtualised audio sink

* Fixed HURD support

* A2DP decoder quality improvements

Enhancements

* Eider adds a motion-compensated temporal denoiser, which gives higher quality than the older spatial denoiser.
* We've added support for new compilers and platforms, including improved Xcode support, Android x86 NDK build, OS/2 support and SunCC support.
* Input resolution may now be changed without re-initializing the codec.
* The vpxenc application has initial support for producing multiple encodes from the same input in one call.

Performance Improvements

* With Eider, our focus was on decoder speed and realtime encoder speed.

Large realtime encoding speed gains with little quality loss are possible using the on-the-fly bitpacking experiment. Video conferencing-style encodes can be up to 13% faster, depending on resource allocation, with loss in the range of 0.2dB.

* Decoder speed improved 2.5% vs. Duclair.
* Two-pass encoding of slideshow-like material will see significant speed improvements.
* Quality is consistent with Duclair, but saw some useful tweaks:
* Reduced blockiness in easy sections, by penalizing intra modes.
* Improved quality of static sections (like slideshows) with two-pass encoding.
* Improved keyframe sizing with multiple temporal layers.

Many thanks to all who worked on Eider, and welcome to four new contributors:

KO Myung-Hun
Marco Paniconi
Priit Laes
Takanori MATSUURA

Noteworthy Changes

There were a few important bugfixes since KDevelop 4.3.0, hence you should update as soon as possible.

Improved C++ support

On machines that already use the recently released GCC 4.7, you need KDevelop 4.3.1 to ensure proper support for many C++ stdlib classes in our language support. This is due to the usage of the new C++11 noexecept keyword in the stdlib header files, which was not supported by KDevelop until now.
Furthermore we managed to resolve a nasty bug in our template support, which so far could freeze our parser when processing specific template code. This means you can finally use the famous Eigen library among others in KDevelop again.

Other Bugfixes

Beside the notable changes above, KDevelop 4.3.1 comes with lots of bug fixes for our PHP and QtHelp documentation plugins, the PHP support and other areas. As usual, we also managed to resolve a few crashes. For the full overview, take a look at the changelog files.

Many thanks as always to the various contributors who made this release possible.

RELEASE HIGHLIGHTS

* Added support for the following GPUs:

GeForce GT 635M
GeForce 610M

* Closed a security vulnerability which made it possible for attackers to reconfigure GPUs to gain access to arbitrary system memory. For further details, see: http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3109

* Fixed a bug that caused DisplayPort devices to occasionally fail to turn back on after the system is resumed from suspend.

* Added a ModeValidation X configuration option token, "AllowNon3DVisionModes", to allow modes that are not optimized for NVIDIA 3D Vision to be validated on 3D Vision monitors.

Changes:

* Improved compatibility with open source drivers in Linux.
* Tuned 3DVision settings: more depth.
* Fixed Russian localization for Steam.
* Added German localization (locked until March, 23).
* Improved NVIDIA 3DVision support.
* Introduced performance optimizations on "Ultra" graphics settings.
* Added info on ongoing multiplayer matches in Steam lobby.
* Enabled auto-refresh in Steam lobby.
* Fixed Steam achievements (campaign mode).
* Fixed some localization errors.
* Minor bugfixes in campaign missions.
* Added hot key for journal (F1 by default).
* Added "Quick save" function (F5 by default).
* Added Mac OS X version for Steam.
* Added autorun launcher for retail version.
* Fixed minor bugs.

Changes in version 3.0

Added Mac OS X version compatible with 10.7+ (no tessellation).

Added support for Intel HD 3000 GPU (no tessellation).

Improved support for multi-monitor configurations.

Added support for NVIDIA 3D Surround (multi-monitor stereo 3D).

Enhanced NVIDIA 3D Vision support.

New cross-platform launcher without .NET dependencies.

Fixed Phoronix Test Suite compatibility issue.

Fixed minor visual artifacts.

Improved compatibility with Mesa drivers.

Improved detection of new GPUs.

RELEASE HIGHLIGHTS

Added support for the following GPU:

Tesla X2090

Fixed a bug that caused black areas to appear on the back faces of some models in Maya.

Fixed a bug that resulted in the printing of spurious loader error messages.

Fixed a bug that could cause X to crash after hotplugging displays.

Fixed a bug which caused face selections to be misrendered in Maya when using the paint selection tool.

Improved performance for interactive tools in Mudbox.

Added a "--no-opengl-files" option to nvidia-installer to allow installation of the driver without OpenGL files that might conflict with already installed OpenGL implementations.

Split the DFP configuration page in nvidia-settings into multiple tabs, allowing the controls to be displayed on smaller screens.

Fixed a bug that could cause some OpenGL applications (including desktop environments like KDE and GNOME Shell) to hang.

Fixed a bug that prevented the internal panel from working on some laptops with GeForce 7 series GPUs.

Fixed an OpenGL bug where using display lists on Fermi-based GPUs could result in missing rendering in some cases.

Fixed an OpenGL bug that caused incorrect rendering when using framebuffer objects to render to 16-bit color textures with alpha.

Fixed two bugs that caused sporadic application crashes in some multi-threaded OpenGL applications.

Fixed a bug that caused creating OpenGL 4.2 contexts with glXCreateContextAttribsARB to fail.

Fixed a bug that caused OpenGL to print

Xlib: extension "NV-GLX" missing on display ":0". when used with a non-NVIDIA implementation of the GLX X extension.

Implemented color depth 30 (10 bits per component) support for GeForce 8 series and higher GPUs.

Implemented support for constraining cursors to the visible regions of connected displays; see the "ConstrainCursor" X Option in the README for details.

Berlin, February 14, 2012 – The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 3.5, the third major release of “the best free office suite ever”, which shows to end users the improvements derived from the development strategy adopted since September 2010. LibreOffice 3.5 derives from the combined effort of full time hackers – the largest group of experienced OOo code developers – and volunteer hackers, coordinated by the Engineering Steering Committee.

During 16 months, an average of 80 developers each month have provided a total of over thirty thousand code commits, introducing new and interesting features:

Writer

- a new built-in Grammar checker for English and several other languages
- improved typographical features, for professional looking documents
- an interactive word count window, which updates in real time
- a new header, footer and page break user interface

Impress / Draw

- an improved importer of custom shapes and Smart Art from PPT/PPTX
- a feature for embedding multimedia/colour palettes into ODF documents
- a new display switch for the presenter’s console
- new line ends for improved diagrams
- Microsoft Visio import filter

Calc

- support for up to 10,000 sheets
- a new multi-line input area
- new Calc functions conforming to the ODF OpenFormula specifications
- better performances when importing files from other office suites
- multiple selections in autofilter
- unlimited number of rules for conditional formatting

Base

- a new integrated PostgreSQL native driver

xine-lib (1.2.1) 2012-02-04

* The "I'm at Tyneside LUG" release.
* Enable PulseAudio, JACK and VDPAU on the Hurd.
* Rewrite of VDPAU OSD handling.
* sndio plugin is now buildable.
* Various bug fixes.

New features at a glance:

KDE 4.7.4
Hybrid ISO images
Search engines
Upstream components

GIMP 2.6.12 is a bug-fix release in the stable GIMP 2.6 series. Its purpose is mostly to wrap up all fixes that have piled up since 2.6.11 into a last release in the stable 2.6 series before we switch to 2.8. Please have a look at the NEWS file for a detailed list of changes.

Overview of Changes from GIMP 2.6.11 to GIMP 2.6.12
===================================================

* Bugs fixed:

627328 - GIMP 2.6.10 segfaults when CTRL-left click on a layer mask
631885 - GIMP fails to import a path from SVG
631728 - Crash or Gtk-CRITICAL on File->Open
641259 - [abrt] gimp-2:2.6.11-1.fc14: py-slice.py:172:slice:TypeError: integer argument expected, got float
640219 - gimp(1) manpage fixes
640612 - Sample Colorize does not function non-interactively
646947 - file-pdf-load: Don't use deprecated API
639203 - file-psp: fix for bogus input data
639203 - Fixes for some buffer overflow problems
652280 - Guard against crash due to quitting while DND is processed
660305 - fails to build with -Werror=format-security
623045 - script-fu: make server IPv6 aware

... plus a ton of others.

* Updated translations:

Asturian (ast)
Catalan (Valencian) (ca@valencia)
Danish (da)
Greek (el)
Esperanto (eo)
Spanish (es)
Italian (it)
Japanese (ja)
Kazakh (kk)
Latvian (la)
Norwegian Nynorsk (nn)
Polish (pl)
Portuguese (pt)
Brazilian Portuguese (pt_BR)
Russian (ru)
Turkish (tr)
Simplified Chinese (zh_CN)

Highlights of 1.4.1:

New 3D animation (wireframe text)

New Titles (gold)

New Effects (fish eye)

New Animation Presets

Support for Blender 2.6.X

Localization fixes (seg faults, audio volume, rotation effect)

UI bugs (disappearing icons using some GTK themes)

Improved Help Manual

Improved Title UI (interactive font list)

Improved Precision (clip length, default image length)

Tons of bug fixes! (view all bug reports)

2012-01-27 v1.0.0 "Duclair"

Our fourth named release, focused on performance and features related to real-time encoding. It also fixes a decoder crash bug introduced in v0.9.7, so all users of that release are encouraged to upgrade.

- Upgrading:

This release is ABI incompatible with prior releases of libvpx, so the "major" version number has been bumped to 1. You must recompile your applications against the latest version of the libvpx headers. The API remains compatible, and this should not require code changes in most applications.

- Enhancements:

This release introduces several substantial new features to the encoder, of particular interest to real time streaming applications.

Temporal scalability allows the encoder to produce a stream that can be decimated to different frame rates, with independent rate targetting for each substream.

Multiframe quality enhancement postprocessing can make visual quality more consistent in the presence of frames that are substantially different quality than the surrounding frames, as in the temporal scalability case and in some forced keyframe scenarios.

Multiple-resolution encoding support allows the encoding of the same content at different resolutions faster than encoding them separately.

- Speed:

Optimization targets for this release included the decoder and the real-time modes of the encoder. Decoder speed on x86 has improved 10.5% with this release. Encoder improvements followed a curve where speeds 1-3 improved 4.0%-1.5%, speeds 4-8 improved <1%, and speeds 9-16 improved 1.5% to 10.5%, respectively. "Best" mode speed is consistent with the Cayuga release.

- Quality:

Encoder quality in the single stream case is consistent with the Cayuga release.

- Bug Fixes:

This release fixes an OOB read decoder crash bug present in v0.9.7 related to the clamping of motion vectors in SPLITMV blocks. This behavior could be triggered by corrupt input or by starting decoding from a P-frame.

We have made a new major release (0.10) It contains all features and bugfixes of the git master branch. A partial list of new stuff is below:

Fixes:

CVE-2011-3929, CVE-2011-3934, CVE-2011-3935, CVE-2011-3936,
CVE-2011-3937, CVE-2011-3940, CVE-2011-3941, CVE-2011-3944,
CVE-2011-3945, CVE-2011-3946, CVE-2011-3947, CVE-2011-3949,
CVE-2011-3950, CVE-2011-3951, CVE-2011-3952

v410 Quicktime Uncompressed 4:4:4 10-bit encoder and decoder
SBaGen (SBG) binaural beats script demuxer
OpenMG Audio muxer
Timecode extraction in DV and MOV
thumbnail video filter
XML output in ffprobe
asplit audio filter
tinterlace video filter
astreamsync audio filter
amerge audio filter
ISMV (Smooth Streaming) muxer
GSM audio parser
SMJPEG muxer
XWD encoder and decoder
Automatic thread count based on detection number of (available) CPU cores
y41p Brooktree Uncompressed 4:1:1 12-bit encoder and decoder
ffprobe -show_error option
Avid 1:1 10-bit RGB Packer codec
v308 Quicktime Uncompressed 4:4:4 encoder and decoder
yuv4 libquicktime packed 4:2:0 encoder and decoder
ffprobe -show_frames option
silencedetect audio filter
ffprobe -show_program_version, -show_library_versions, -show_versions options
rv34: frame-level multi-threading
optimized iMDCT transform on x86 using SSE for for mpegaudiodec
Improved PGS subtitle decoder
dumpgraph option to lavfi device
r210 and r10k encoders
ffwavesynth decoder
aviocat tool
ffeval tool
all features from avconv merged into ffmpeg