
Tuesday April 24th 2007
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The Elisa team is happy to announce the 0.1.6 release of the Elisa
home multimedia system.

We fixed 2 crasher bugs in this release:

- Under Ubuntu Feisty any attempt to close the elisa's DBus session
  would lead to a segfault, preventing the configuration from being written
  back to disk. We don't close the dbus session anymore, it's not even
  recommended in the DBus developer documentation (and now we know why).
- If you were missing multimedia codecs to play a file, in some cases
  GStreamer would fail to parse the resulting error message, leading
  to an assertion error and a segfault of the application

Monday April 16th 2007
======================

The Elisa team is proud to announce 0.1.5 release of the core of the
Elisa home multimedia system.

We fixed some issues, bugs and added few features since the last
release:

- 2 new config options were added for the player to allow the user to
  customize how much seconds the player can seek
  forward/backward. Options are seek_forward_step and
  seek_backward_step.
- a UPnP MediaRenderer plugin has been added, it allows Elisa to
  display media available on the network via UPnP. This plugin is
  still experimental, hence disabled by default.
- Elisa is now more able to detect missing audio/video codecs and cancel
  media playback if anything is missing.
- New Catalan translation by Josep Torra.


Tuesday March 13th 2007
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The Elisa team is proud to announce 0.1.4.2 release of the core of the
Elisa home multimedia system.

We fixed some issues, bugs and added few features since the last release:

- the .desktop file has been fixed and is now valid. Elisa menu will
  appear in xdg compatible menus
- Elisa now detects ogg theora files and is able to play them
- the audio visualization effects are now disabled in the default
  configuration, this doesn't work well and need more work
- Elisa now detects coldplugged devices (ex: usb disks plugged before
  elisa has been started)
- next/previous track buttons have been added, allowing the user to
  skip track currently being played
- a Last.FM_ webradios streaming client has been added, it allows
  Last.FM users to listen music via the Last.FM streaming platform.


Friday February 16th 2007
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The Elisa team releases a 0.1.4.1 version of Elisa. It fixes a
critical bug preventing elisa installed system-wide to run. In fact
some icons were not installed correctly.

Please upgrade to 0.1.4.1 and accept our apologies :-)

Friday February 16th 2007
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The Elisa team is proud to announce 0.1.4 release of the core of the
Elisa home multimedia system.

We fixed many issues, bugs and added some features since the last release:

- the media database system has been improved, one step further
  towards big media collections support
- pictures/movies thumbnails are now compatible with Freedesktop
  specifications
- the skin has been slightly improved in many places (new pictos,
  better animations, picture-folders icon compositing)
- Pigment labels now display much better and are now scalable
- The SDL Pigment backend has been replaced by a XWindow/GLX backend
- Pigment now handle screens with non-square aspect ratio resolutions

Tuesday January 23rd 2007
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The Elisa team is proud to announce 0.1.3 release of the core of the
Elisa home multimedia system.

We fixed many issues and bugs since the last release:

- many i18n/locales fixes
- debian packages enhancements
- german, swedish and polish translations
- elisa-client is now able to control most of the player actions
- window / screen resolution picture aspect-ratio fixes, Elisa should
  now display fine on wide screens on/or exotic resolutions

We also added some new features:

- an experimental UPnP MediaServer plugin, relying on the Coherence_
  Python UPnP framework, meant for testers 
- an audioscrobbler plugin which submits stats about played audio media
  to Last.fm_

We started porting Elisa and Pigment to the win32 platform. An alpha
setup.exe including Pigment, Elisa and all its dependencies is shipped
for early brave testers.

.. _Coherence: https://coherence.beebits.net/
.. _Last.fm: http://last.fm

Thursday December 21th 2006
===========================

The Elisa team is proud to announce 0.1.2 release of the core of the
Elisa home multimedia system.

Apart from the list of bugfixes, we added some new features in this
release:

- User notification support using popups
- weather forecast plugin
- internationalization and translations for Spanish, French and Czech
- Player dock ergonomy fixes
- Audio viszualization GStreamer plugins support, Elisa displays nice
  animation when playing audio-only content

Monday December 11th 2006
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The Elisa team is proud to announce 0.1.1 release of the core of the
Elisa home multimedia system.

Apart from the list of bugfixes, we added some new features in this
release:

- Simple subtitle files support, Elisa looks for srt, sub, smi, ssa
  files named like the video file to play
- Player dock, displaying status informations about the playing media
- Trick modes support, you can increase/decrease playback speed, play
  some medias reversed

The 0.1.2 release including new plugins, user-interface improvements
and some nice other features will be available before 2007 :-)

Wednesday November 08th 2006
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The Elisa team is proud to announce 0.1.0 release of the core of the
Elisa home multimedia system.

Since the first release we moved the rendering and widget frameworks
to a separate project nammed Pigment_. The skin has been rewritten
from scratch, its look is not has slick as in the first release, but
we have a better code base and it will improve in the next few
weeks. 

Features added in this release:

- DAAP client allowing to browse and play music shared on the local
  network by iTunes and similar audio jukebox systems
- Flickr_ browsing support
- New "services" menu which will store futur plugins like weather,
  news or the configuration management interface.

.. _Pigment: https://core.fluendo.com/pigment/trac/
.. _Flickr: http://flickr.com

Monday July 10th 2006
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The Elisa team is proud to announce 0.0.1 release of the core of the
Elisa home multimedia system.

The 0.0.x series is aimed at developers and early adopters with later
releases targeting the wider user community. This particular release
is mainly a technology preview aimed to show the current features and
user interfaces of Elisa to enable us to get early feedback and input
from the wider community. The APIs are subject to change very soon
though.

Features of this release:

- Pictures, music, movies browsing and playback support
- Basic media operations (picture rotation, video navigation, ...)
- Partial interoperability with UPnP MediaServers
- OpenGL 1.3 rendering support
- Storage hotplug support using HAL and DBus (USB volumes, iPod, ...)
- Web radios support
- Basic DVD playback
- Remote control support using LIRC
- Extensible plugin framework

You can download this first release from our `download area`_.

.. _download area: http://www.fluendo.com/elisa/downloads
