(If you download 6.0 for Linux before about 16:30 UTC on May 24th, you should probably download again, because we mistakenly released the wrong version of the build)
We hope to return to bi-monthly releases going forward, and there’s a lot of stuff to do!
WARNING
If you previously used one of the pre-release versions of 6.0 (basically, any version of the code since 5.12 was released) and are now trying the release, you should probably remove the existing preferences. We’ve already had one bug report that was caused by having a mid-development version of the preferences still around.
Very recent versions of these folders will not cause problems, but this is just a warning since I’m sure there will some other issues arising from this sort of thing.
The release notes are just massive. Thank you so much to everyone who made this happen, especially Paul and Robin. It’s wonderful to see that Ardour took another large step forward.
Is 6.0 really built with gcc4 or am I doing something wrong here ? I get this warning when installing on (Manjaro xfce):
sudo ./Ardour-6.0.0-x86_64.run
Verifying archive integrity… All good.
Uncompressing Ardour…
Welcome to the Ardour installer
Ardour will be installed for user mika in /opt
Architecture is x86_64
Checking for required disk space
WARNING: GCC4/5 libstdc++ ABI Mismatch
Ardour was compiled with gcc4, your system uses a newer version of the
standard c++ library. Plugins on your system may not load or plugin-UIs
may cause crashes.
There was an error in the release process. We released the gcc4 build, not the gcc5 one. A new packaging is underway, and the files will be updated.
You will need to download again.
Extremely sorry about this - this release process is a bit different to previous ones because we decided to stop packaging the gcc4 version (it remains available on nightly.ardour.org). I didn’t verify the modified release process to ensure that it grabbed the right one.
I will post an announcement here when the new packages are available.