From 6082f0162fc4fd72a9e92f06b62b02ad16f382cd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Adrian Sampson Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2012 18:04:39 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] changelog summary for 1.0rc1 --- docs/changelog.rst | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++---------- 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/changelog.rst b/docs/changelog.rst index 57974231b..53a62f9a6 100644 --- a/docs/changelog.rst +++ b/docs/changelog.rst @@ -1,21 +1,35 @@ Changelog ========= -1.0rc1 (in development) ------------------------ +1.0rc1 (December 17, 2012) +-------------------------- -* New plugin: :doc:`/plugins/convert` transcodes music and embeds album art +The first release candidate for beets 1.0 includes a deluge of new features +contributed by beets users. The vast majority of the credit for this release +goes to the growing and vibrant beets community. A million thanks to everybody +who contributed to this release. + +There are new plugins for transcoding music, fuzzy searches, tempo collection, +and fiddling with metadata. The ReplayGain plugin has been rebuilt from +scratch. Album art images can now be resized automatically. Many other smaller +refinements make things "just work" as smoothly as possible. + +With this release candidate, beets 1.0 is feature-complete. We'll be fixing +bugs on the road to 1.0 but no new features will be added. Concurrently, work +begins today on features for version 1.1. + +* New plugin: :doc:`/plugins/convert` **transcodes** music and embeds album art while copying to a separate directory. Thanks to Jakob Schnitzer and Andrew G. Dunn. -* New plugin: :doc:`/plugins/fuzzy_search` lets you find albums and tracks using - fuzzy string matching so you don't have to type (or even remember) their exact - names. Thanks to Philippe Mongeau. -* New plugin: :doc:`/plugins/echonest_tempo` fetches tempo (BPM) information +* New plugin: :doc:`/plugins/fuzzy_search` lets you find albums and tracks + using **fuzzy string matching** so you don't have to type (or even remember) + their exact names. Thanks to Philippe Mongeau. +* New plugin: :doc:`/plugins/echonest_tempo` fetches **tempo** (BPM) information from `The Echo Nest`_. Thanks to David Brenner. * New plugin: :doc:`/plugins/the` adds a template function that helps format text for nicely-sorted directory listings. Thanks to Blemjhoo Tezoulbr. -* New plugin: :doc:`/plugins/zero` filters out undesirable fields before they - are written to your tags. Thanks again to Blemjhoo Tezoulbr. +* New plugin: :doc:`/plugins/zero` **filters out undesirable fields** before + they are written to your tags. Thanks again to Blemjhoo Tezoulbr. * New plugin: :doc:`/plugins/ihate` automatically skips (or warns you about) importing albums that match certain criteria. Thanks once again to Blemjhoo Tezoulbr. @@ -23,7 +37,7 @@ Changelog the `mp3gain`_ or `aacgain`_ command-line tools instead of the failure-prone Gstreamer ReplayGain implementation. Thanks to Fabrice Laporte. * :doc:`/plugins/fetchart` and :doc:`/plugins/embedart`: Both plugins can now - resize album art to avoid excessively large images. Use the ``maxwidth`` + **resize album art** to avoid excessively large images. Use the ``maxwidth`` config option with either plugin. Thanks to Fabrice Laporte. * :doc:`/plugins/scrub`: Scrubbing now removes *all* types of tags from a file rather than just one. For example, if your FLAC file has both ordinary FLAC