Jokosher 0.10 Released

After almost a year and a half, we got another release out the door. As I mentioned last time this release did not have as many features as the long wait would suggest. Instead there are a few modest features, many welcomed stability fixes, as 0.10 sets the stage for a faster release cycle and development time for Jokosher. Barring any major disasters with the development team, the last year of stagnation is over. Of course it will go even faster if we get more of you involved in planning, testing, etc.

PulseAudio and JACK support

I have been putting a good chunk of time towards developing the new audio backend feature. It allows the user to select any recording backend and any playback backend that Gstreamer supports. Currently it has been tested with ALSA, OSS, PulseAudio and JACK, but if you know the name of the Gstreamer element you want to use you can specify it as a custom backend in the preferences dialog (think recording from network stream). This feature will make an appearance in 0.11 in time for Ubuntu Jaunty, but you can see a screenshot of it right now, or checkout the custom-audio-src branch and try it yourself.

Jokosher 0.10.1 Bug Fix Release

After releasing 0.10, we continued to do testing ourselves and got a lot of feedback from other users. This made us aware that there were many small bugs which had been overlooked, and could be easily fixed in a few weeks. We did just that and released the bug fix update 4 weeks after 0.10. The source tarball is available on the launchpad release page, where you will also find the list of bugs fixed. We released 0.10 just in time for the feature freeze in Ubuntu Intrepid, and then released 0.10.1 just in time for the Ubuntu beta freeze. Both times the wonderful Daniel Holbach from the Ubuntu MOTU team packaged our release and uploaded it to the Ubuntu universe repository within a few days. If you know any other distros that have the newest version of Jokosher, please let us know and we will add them to the download page.

Multichannel Recording Works!

After years of talking about it, Jokosher was able to finally record multiple channels simultaneously from professional audio cards which offer up to 8 channels. The code for this feature was put into the custom-audio-src branch just a few days ago, and reports have been very positive. There are a few bugs to be worked out before this can be merged into trunk but it would be great if you can try out the branch yourself and report any bugs you encounter. You should expect to see this wonderful feature available in 0.11 along with the JACK and PulseAudio support.

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