Jalv 1.8.0

Jalv 1.8.0 has been released. Jalv (JAck LV2) is a simple host for LV2 plugins. It runs a plugin, and exposes the plugin ports to the system, essentially making the plugin an application. For more information, see http://drobilla.net/software/jalv.

Changes:

• Add "quit" console command
• Add AppStream metainfo file
• Add Qt6 version
• Add missing short versions of command line options
• Add option to install tool man pages
• Add support for advanced parameters in console frontend
• Add support for control inputs with time:beatsPerMinute designation
• Add support for control outputs with lv2:latency designation
• Avoid over-use of yielding meson options
• Build Qt UI with -fPIC
• Clean up and strengthen code
• Clean up command line help output
• Cleanly separate audio thread from the rest of the application
• Fix Jack latency recomputation when plugin latency changes
• Fix clashing command line options
• Fix minor memory leaks
• Make help and version commands exit successfully
• Only send control messages to designated lv2:control ports
• Only send position to ports that explicitly support it
• Reduce Jack process callback overhead
• Remove Gtk2 interface
• Remove limits on the size of messages sent from plugin to UI
• Remove transport position dumping from Jack process callback
• Replace use of deprecated Gtk interfaces
• Rework Gtk3 interface into a relatively modern Gtk application
• Rewrite man pages in mdoc
• Simplify and unify plugin and preset command-line arguments
• Switch to external zix dependency
• Use Gtk switches instead of checkboxes for toggle controls
• Use fewer platform-specific APIs
• Use portable zix filesystem API