We are pleased to announce the next beta release of Ardour 2.0.
This has many substantive internal changes based on many crash reports from the beta5.1 release. There are also a number of notable bug fixes since that release. A summary is shown below:
- fix issues with possible compiler bug or misuse of multiple inheritance that led to many different crashes during shutdown
- fix memory leak and CPU hogging during click computation at "far" transport positions
- undo/redo should be significantly faster (close to ardour 0.99 or better)
- a little less memory use over time
- several previously untranslated strings now translated correctly
- new French translation
- new About page image from Thorsten Wilms
- SSE optimizations now actually used for track/bus gain stages
- big clock always floats on top of other ardour windows
- fix meter thread access to illegal memory during shutdown
- mute button now has sensible text color when active
- use final_prefix properly in gtk2_ardour/SConscript
- possible fix for crash-inducing handling of "fake" recording regions
- avoid executable stack
- reduce calls to fit_to_pixels()
- fixed double application of gain on tracks/busses with bypassed panners
Note that undo/redo of automation lists is currently disabled. It will return in the next couple of days.