Banshee 1.5.6

  • Release Date: March 20, 2020

  • Source Tarball: banshee-1-1.5.6.tar.bz2

  • Release Information: NEWS, sha256sum

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Banshee 1.5.6 (1.6 RC2) is a bug fix release with several significant fixes.

Notable Bug Fixes

44 bugs were fixed since 1.5.5!

  • Fix rendering and interaction bugs in the grid view

  • Fix issue with volume getting reset on every song change

  • Handle volume changes from outside Banshee (eg PulseAudio)

  • Fix issue parsing some RSS feeds

  • Fix library importing and rescanning on all IO backends

  • Support coverart for albums without an artist (bgo#612626)

  • Don't capture 's' presses if keybindings disabled

  • Fix typing in the Wikipedia webkit view

  • Fix equalizer settings migration (bgo#612669)

  • Redraw the entire ListView when dragging columns

  • Increase podcast download timeout

  • Fix bad startup crash in PlayQueue on old Mono

  • Fix "Too many open files" bug with GIO backend

  • [Banshee.Hardware] Handle exceptions (bgo#613173)

  • [PodcastActions] Unsubscribe from an event on dispose

  • [ContextPane] Fix crash if active removed (bgo#613277)

  • [LastfmSource] Fix crash (bgo#612824)

  • [Lastfm] Fix crash using auth Refresh button (bgo#610911)

  • [Lastfm] Fix crash (bgo#613276)

  • Fix compilation error with older Mono

  • Fix compilation error with bundled notify-sharp

  • Fix --disable-youtube flag

  • Set YouTube install dir to Extensions/

  • Fix building with older GStreamer (bgo#613339)

Banshee has a lot more to offer! Check out the previous major release notes...

Dependencies

  • Mono 1.9.1 (.NET 2.0 Profile / gmcs)

  • SQlite 3.4

  • Gtk# 2.12

  • GStreamer 0.10.13

  • NDesk DBus (ndesk-dbus) 0.5

  • NDesk DBus GLib (ndesk-dbus-glib) 0.3

  • Mono.Addins (mono-addins) 0.3.1

  • TagLib# (taglib-sharp) >= 2.0.3.7

  • Required to build default feature stack:

    • libmtp >= 0.2.0

    • ipod-sharp >= 0.8.5

    • mono-zeroconf >= 0.8.0

    • boo >= 0.8.1

    • webkit-sharp-1.0 >= 0.2

    • gdata-sharp >= 1.4

  • Run-time requirements for default feature stack:

    • podsleuth >= 0.6.6

    • brasero

    • avahi

Community

Contributors For This Release

The following people directly contributed to the release of this version of Banshee. Without their help, there would be no release!

  Aaron Bockover, Alexander Kojevnikov, Andrés G. Aragoneses, Arun Raghavan,
  Bertrand Lorentz, Christopher James Halse Rogers, Gabriel Burt,
  Ian McKellar, Jordi Mas, Konstantin Oshiyko, Marijn Ros

The following people contributed updated translations to this release. Without them, our project's reach would be much more limited.

  Andrej Žnidaršič, António Lima, Benjamin Valero Espinosa, Bruno Brouard,
  Daniel Nylander, Inaki Larranaga Murgoitio, Marek Černocký

Contributors In Past Releases

Aaron Bockover, Alan McGovern, Alex Bennee, Alex Kloss, Alex Launi,
Alexander Hixon, Alexander Kojevnikov, Alexandros Frantzis, Alp Toker,
Anders Petersson, Andrea Cimitan, Andreas Neustifter, Andreas Nilsson,
Andrew Conkling, Andrés G. Aragoneses, Andy Midgette, Arthur Carli,
Arun Raghavan, Aydemir Ulaş Şahin, Ben Maurer, Benjamín Valero Espinosa,
Bertrand Lorentz, Bertrand Lorentz, Bill Dawson, Bob Copeland,
Bojan Rajkovic, Brad Taylor, Brandon Perry, Brian Lucas, Brian Nickel,
Brian Teague, Chow Loong Jin, Chris Howie, Chris Jones, Chris Lahey,
Chris Toshok, Chris Turchin, Christian Hergert, Christian Krause,
Christoph Burgdorf, Christopher James Halse Rogers, Cody Russell,
Cosmin Banu, Dan Wilson, Dan Winship, Daniel Munkton, Daniel Siegel,
David Spreen, David Stone, Diego E. Pettenò, Eitan Isaacson, Elena Grassi,
Eoin Hennessy, Eric Butler, Erik Schmidt, Fabian Jost,
Felipe Almeida Lessa, Fernando Casanova, Florent Thoumie, Fredrik Hedberg,
Félix Velasco, Gabriel Burt, Garrett LeSage, Götz Waschk, Haitao Feng,
Hans Petter Jansson, Iain Lane, Igor Guerrero Fonseca, Ilya Konstantinov,
Ivan N. Zlatev, Jack Deslippe, Jakub Steiner, James Willcox,
Jan Arne Petersen, Jason Conti, Jason Taylor, Jeff Tickle, Jeff Wheeler,
Jensen Somers, Jo Shields, Johannes Kuhn, John Millikin, Jordi Mas,
Jorge Castro, Juri Pakaste, Ján Sokoly, Jérémie Laval,
K. Vishnoo Charan Reddy, Ken Vandine, Kevin Duffus, Konstantin Oshiyko,
Larry Ewing, Lauri Kotilainen, Lukas Lipka, Marijn Ros, Matt Enright,
Michael Kaiser, Michael Martin-Smucker, Michael Monreal, Michael Monreal,
Miguel de Icaza, Mike Urbanski, Moritz Schallaböck, Nathan Palmer,
Neil Loknath, Nicholas Doyle, Nicholas Parker, Nicolò Chieffo,
Nils Naumann, Oben Sonne, Olivier Duff, Oscar Forero, Pacho Ramos,
Patrick van Staveren, Paul Lange, Pavel Antonov, Pepijn van de Geer,
Peter de Kraker, Pratik Patel, Przemysław Grzegorczyk, Roderich Schupp,
Romain Tartière, Ruben Vermeersch, Ryan Collier, Sandy Armstrong,
Scott Peterson, Sebastian Dröge, Tim Yamin, Tobias Mueller, Todd Berman,
Travis Glenn Hansen, Travis Reitter, Trey Ethridge, Valentin Sawadski,
Will Farrington, William Pettersson, Wouter Bolsterlee

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If you encounter any bad behavior with this release, please do not hesitate to file bugs!

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