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Thu, 25 Mar 2010

Miro 3.0 released!

We pushed out Miro 3.0 today. There are still some minor things to do like Ubuntu packages (I'll work on that Friday), version updates on the web-site, .... Still, it's really great to finally get the release out the door.

This release has some great features in it:

subtitle support
lots of performance fixes
fixes to the database layer reducing disk i/o
context menu item and system preference for playing videos externally (thank you Jason Woofenden!)
support for media keys on Ubuntu/Linux
a ton of bug fixes
and we wrote a Miro User Manual

Also important, but not something you would see direct evidence of, we did a lot of work on infrastructure and process for developing Miro:

Janet set up an automated ui test system
we fixed our unit test framework to work on Windows
we added 40 unit tests and updated/fixed a lot more
we tweaked our testing and release processes to increase quality
we switched from svn to git
we re-wrote our nightly build scripts
we reworked binary kits so they're versioned and in separate repositories
we continued cleaning up and working on documentation
we continued cleaning up our codebase using pylint to identify issues
we worked on removing code complexity and dead code; ditched some pyrex code; ditched support for xine

We're working hard to make sure that this and future releases are good quality releases. We're working hard to make sure that the four of us can keep pushing Miro in new directions and provide better support for Miro users. We're working hard to do more with less.

We're very excited about this release--it feels really good.

We've also already started on Miro 3.1 development. You can follow the roadmap here.

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Comments:

Posted by Ralf on Sun Mar 28 09:14:58 2010
It alls sounds brilliant.

But I'm on Lucid (Ubuntu) already here, and there aren't packages yet. Off course it's still in beta, and I'm sure you guys will support it once it's released.

But are you guys working with Ubuntu to get Miro 3 into the repositories of lucid? Considering it's an LTS release, and it's quite a popular package.

Posted by will on Sun Mar 28 09:27:07 2010
I traditionally don't support new versions of Ubuntu until after they release, but I'm looking into switching to Launchpad PPAs for the Miro 3.1 dev cycle. If I did that, I think it'd be easier to throw unsupported packages for Lucid together.

In regards to getting Miro 3.0 into Lucid, as I understand it, the packages of Miro in Ubuntu are based on the Debian packages. Ubuntu is on a 6-month release cycle and I'm pretty sure we're way past their package freeze for Lucid. So there's no way that Miro 3.0 will make it into Lucid.

This has always been a problem for us and lots of other projects. Not much we can do about it unless someone who does decision making for Ubuntu decides Miro is a key application and going to be part of the default installation. That probably won't happen anytime soon.

However, this is something that Canonical understands and that's why newer versions of Ubuntu make it a lot easier to host packages in Launchpad PPAs.

Which brings me back to my first paragraph. :)

In the meantime, you can always throw together your own packages. Packaging for Debian and Ubuntu is pretty easy.

Posted by aston4 on Tue Mar 30 19:27:55 2010
Miro 3.0 on a Dell Mini-9 running OS x 10.5.8

After I install it, it runs once perfectly. If I quit & try a second time to launch it from the launcher, the Miro Icon gives one bounce and it refuses to run. It is not running in the background either, it just doesn't start up. I tried changing permissions to no effect. If I reinstall, it runs just fine exactly where I left off, but again will not restart ever again if I quit.

However, if I open a terminal window and run from there ( "./Miro" ), it always runs just fine. This can't be a hard problem to fix?

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