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Jalv 1.6.0 has been released. Jalv is a simple but fully featured LV2 host for Jack which exposes plugin ports to Jack, essentially making any LV2 plugin function as a Jack application. For more information, see http://drobilla.net/software/jalv.

Changes:

• Add PortAudio backend (compile time option, audio only)
• Add Qt5 version
• Add command prompt to console version for changing controls
• Add generic Qt control UI from Amadeus Folego
• Add option to print plugin trace messages
• Allow Jack client name to be set from command line (thanks Adam Avramov)
• Exit GUI versions on interrupt
• Exit on Jack shutdown (patch from Robin Gareus)
• Fix memory error on preset save resulting in odd bundle names
• Fix semaphore correctness issues
• Fix unreliable UI state initialization (patch from Hanspeter Portner)
• Improve preset support
• Print colorful log if output is a terminal
• Report Jack latency (patch from Robin Gareus)
• Set Jack port order metadata
• Support CV ports if Jack metadata is enabled (patch from Hanspeter Portner)
• Support numeric and string plugin properties (event-based control)
• Support thread-safe state restoration
• Update UI when internal plugin state is changed during preset load
• Use moc-qt4 if present for systems with multiple Qt versions

Lilv 0.24.2 has been released. Lilv is a C library to make the use of LV2 plugins as simple as possible for applications. For more information, see http://drobilla.net/software/lilv.

Changes:

• Fix comparison of restored states with paths
• Fix saving state to paths that contain URI delimiters (#, ?, etc)

Suil 0.8.4 has been released. Suil is a library for loading and wrapping LV2 plugin UIs. For more information, see http://drobilla.net/software/suil.

Changes:

• Add Cocoa in Gtk wrapper (patch from Robin Gareus)
• Add Gtk2 and X11 in Qt5 wrappers (patch from Rui Nuno Capela)
• Bubble X11 key events up to Gtk parent (patch from Filipe Coelho)
• Center X11 UIs in Gtk (patch from Robin Gareus)
• Configure based on compiler target OS for cross-compilation
• Fix a few minor/unlikely memory errors
• Fix compilation with -Wl,--no-undefined
• Fix initial size of resizable X11 UIs in Gtk (patch from Robin Gareus)
• Gracefully handle failure to open wrapper
• Only report suil_ui_supported() if necessary wrapper is compiled in
• Upgrade to waf 1.8.14
• Various Windows fixes (patches from Robin Gareus)

Sratom 0.6.0 has been released. Sratom is a small library for serialising LV2 atoms to and from RDF, for converting between binary and text or storing in a model. For more information, see http://drobilla.net/software/sratom.

Changes:

• Add sratom_set_env() for setting prefixes
• Fix padding of constructed vectors (thanks Hanspeter Portner)
• Fix warnings when building with ISO C++ compilers
• Support round-trip serialisation of relative paths
• Support sequences with beat time stamps
• Upgrade to waf 1.8.14

Lilv 0.24.0 has been released. Lilv is a C library to make the use of LV2 plugins as simple as possible for applications. For more information, see http://drobilla.net/software/lilv.

Changes:

• Add LILV_URI_ATOM_PORT and LILV_URI_CV_PORT defines
• Add lilv_state_set_metadata() for adding state banks/comments/etc (based on patch from Hanspeter Portner)
• Add lilv_world_get_symbol()
• Add lv2apply utility for applying plugins to audio files
• Add new hand-crafted Pythonic bindings with full test coverage
• Check lv2:binary predicate for UIs
• Do not instantiate plugin when data fails to parse
• Fix crash when NULL predicate is passed to lilv_world_find_nodes()
• Fix crash when state contains non-POD properties
• Fix documentation installation
• Fix loading dyn-manifest from bundles with spaces in their path
• Fix outdated comment references to lilv_uri_to_path()
• Fix state file versioning
• Replace bundles if bundle with newer plugin version is loaded (based on patch from Robin Gareus)
• Support re-loading plugins
• Unload contained resources when bundle is unloaded

Sord 0.16.0 has been released. Sord is a lightweight C library for storing RDF statements in memory. For more information, see http://drobilla.net/software/sord.

Changes:

• Add sord_node_get_string_measured() to get both byte and character counts
• Fix construction and comparison of URIs with UTF-8 characters
• Fix documentation generation
• Make sord_node_get_counted return byte count, and clarify documentation
• Return error from sord_inserter_write_statement() if a node can not be written (e.g. undefined prefix)
• Safely return NULL from sord_iter_get() for end iterators
• sord_validate: Do proper numeric comparison for propery bounds checking
• sord_validate: Tolerate xsd:decimal literals for double and float properties if literals match pattern

Serd 0.24.0 has been released. Serd is a lightweight C library for RDF syntax which supports reading and writing [Turtle][], [TriG][], [NTriples][], and [NQuads][]. Serd is suitable for performance-critical or resource-limited applications, such as serialising very large data sets or embedded systems.

Changes:

• Add serd_node_new_relative_uri()
• Fix construction and comparison of URIs with UTF-8 characters
• Fix documentation generation
• Fix potential out of bounds read
• Fix unaligned memory access, undefined behaviour which breaks on ARM
• Report I/O errors with message and return appropriate status code
• Report missing statement separator errors
• Update serdi man page

Lilv 0.22.0 has been released. Lilv is a C library to make the use of LV2 plugins as simple as possible for applications. For more information, see http://drobilla.net/software/lilv.

Changes:

• Add lilv_file_uri_parse() for correct URI to path conversion
• Add lilv_free() for systems picky about such things
• Add lilv_node_get_path() for convenient file URI path access
• Add lilv_state_delete() for deleting user saved presets
• Add lilv_state_emit_port_values() for special port value handling
• Add lilv_state_get_uri()
• Configure based on compiler target OS for cross-compilation
• Expose lilv_world_load_specifications() and lilv_world_load_plugin_classes()
• Fix a few minor/unlikely memory errors
• Fix bindings for Python 3
• Fix creation of duplicate manifest entries when saving state
• Fix directory walking on some systems (thanks Matt Fischer)
• Fix lilv_realpath() on pre-POSIX-2008 systems
• Fix lilv_world_ask() to work with wildcards
• Fix loading files with spaces in their path
• Load discovered owl ontologies as specifications
• Minor documentation improvements
• Preserve absolute paths in state if no link directory is given
• Tolerate passing NULL to lilv_state_restore()
• Upgrade to waf 1.8.14
• Windows fixes (thanks John Emmas)

Sord 0.14.0 has been released. Sord is a lightweight C library for storing RDF statements in memory. For more information, see http://drobilla.net/software/sord.

Changes:

• Add sord_erase() for erasing statements via an iterator
• Fix bugs with stores that contain both graphs and default graph statements
• Fix compilation on compilers that do not support -pthread flag
• Fix crash caused by multiple deletion of datatype nodes
• Fix minor memory leak in sordi
• Fix using sordi with stdin
• Improve test coverage
• Reduce memory usage and increase performance with a better data structure
• Show sordi errors in standard format
• This release does not break the ABI, but the semantics of iterators has changed: any modification to a model invalidates iterators on that model
• Upgrade to waf 1.8.14
• sord_validate: More extensive validation, including cardinality, PlainLiteral, and someValuesFrom restrictions.

Serd 0.22.0 has been released. Serd is a lightweight C library for RDF syntax which supports reading and writing [Turtle][], [TriG][], [NTriples][], and [NQuads][]. Serd is suitable for performance-critical or resource-limited applications, such as serialising very large data sets or embedded systems.

Changes:

• Add serd_reader_set_strict() and -l (lax) option to serdi to tolerate parsing URIs with escaped characters
• Add support for Turtle named inline nodes extension
• Fix clash resolution when a blank node ID prefix is set
• Fix reading statements ending with a blank then dot with no space
• Fix serd_reader_read_file() for URIs with escaped characters (spaces)
• Fix serializing fractional decimals that would round up
• Fix warnings when building with ISO C++ compilers
• Remove dependence on fmax() to avoid portability issues
• Report errors for invalid IRI characters and missing terminators
• Show serdi errors in standard format
• Upgrade to waf 1.8.14