Changelog

CHANGELOG for X-CD-Roast 1.19

11.11.18:

Add ALSA sound support on Linux.
Lots of bugfixes in the audio player.
Show all output lines of the tools cdrecord/cdda2wav/mkisofs. In some cases the last lines were not displayed before.
Merged patch: makefile_destdir.patch (Thanks to 'beachcoder'.)
Merged patch: imgfile_case-sensitivity.patch (Thanks to Mathias Büttner.)
Merged patch: nocdtextfile.patch (Thanks to Mathias Büttner.)
Merged patch: xcdroast-1.18-charsets.diff (Thanks to Georgy Salnikov.)
Merged modification of the xcdroast-1.18-charsets.diff patch to simplify ISO9660 custom charsets handling. (Thanks to Mathias Büttne.)
Include swedish translation update from Peter Krefting.

23.12.17:

RELEASED X-CD-Roast 1.18
Bugfix in configure script

22.12.17:

RELEASED X-CD-Roast 1.17

14.12.17:

Update desktop icon

29.10.17:

Fix crash when deleting exactly 50 or a multiple of 50 tracks.

08.10.17:

Change code to use g_io_channels. (Prepare for GTK3)

07.10.17:

More GTK3 migration.
Remove of Mac OS X code since there have been no working cdrtools for more than a decade and thus X-CD-Roast cannot be programmed for OS X.

01.10.17:

Rewrite child processing.

17.09.17:

More GTK3 migration.

03.09.17:

Rewrite dialog window placement.

20.08.17:

Modernize code to display the xcdroast logo (cairo instead of pixbuf). Also improve the logo quality.
Add About-dialog.

23.07.17:

Disabled the write mode selector for DVD (and BD) media in "Create" and in "Duplicate" menu.
Disabled "Do not fixate" for multisession writes (not just a warning).
Added fixed settings for nofixate and multisession in "Duplicate" menu as they can't be changed there.
Updated write mode settings and write options for cdrecord.
Fixed displaying wrong Disc size if no Audio CD or Mixed Mode CD.
Added notification if CD-Text will not be written.
Placed a small logo on top of the sidespace buttons.
Amended some of the old tooltips.

30.06.17:

All terms talking about a CD (Compact Disc) are changed simply to the word Disc or CD/DVD/BD where meaningful. (by Mathias Büttner)

17.06.17:

Resized Dialog windows

14.06.17:

Removed checks for older cdrecord features

05.06.17:

Replaced all GtkText by GtkTextView (modernize design)

04.06.17:

Convert all translation files to UTF-8

31.05.17:

Replace GtkFileSelection by GtkFileChooser (modernize design)

19.05.17:

Code cleanup/formatting by Mathias Büttner

06.05.17:

rename non-root-mode to user-host-mode, as we now always allow non-root users to start X-CD-Roast. The user-host-mode just allows to configure which user on which host can use X-CD-Roast. (e.g. for computer science labs or server installations)

01.05.17:

detect the suid-bit settings on the cdrtools or the X-CD-Roast wrapper and offer a dialog to fix this automatically

26.04.17:

Changed JEDEC prefixes to decimal and binary prefixes according to IEC 60027-2 (January 1999) to avoid confusion. (by Mathias Büttner)

17.04.17:

Paranoia mode: auto setup of lowest read ahead buffer for each drive when scanning for new devices (by Mathias Büttner)

16.04.17:

wrong cdrtool versions are now reported in a dialog window (not just as a warning in the terminal)
set suid bit on xcdrwrap on 'make install'

15.04.17:

Fix various gdk-assertion failures
Fix resize of Read/Write progress window

09.04.17:

Added new checkbox "audio deemphasis" (by Mathias Büttner)

04.04.17:

Updated gettext to 0.19.7
Updated to autoconf 2.69
Update to autmake 1.14.1
use cddb protocol 6 instead of 1, this fixes also charset problems

03.04.17:

Compile by default without non-root-mode. Currently I rely on that the cdrtools have the suid bit already set.
charset conversion from ISO8859-1 to UTF-8 on Album or Track titles.

02.04.17:

merged in all patches I received and published on my webpage since X-CD-Roast 0.98alpha16. - Many thanks to all contributors! (parse_version.patch, change_norwegian_locale.txt, io_compile.patch, cdda2wav_version.patch, fix_cddb_hidden_tracks.patch, io_progressbar _fix.patch, format-security.patch, suid-perms.patch)
removed --enable-gtk2 option, this is enabled by default now.
Renamed norwegian translation file from "no" to "nb".
Updated galician translation.

01.04.17:

Lots of input and patches and motivation for an updated xcdroast version by Mathias Büttner from southwestern Germany:
updated CD/DVD writer/reader default settings in setup menu.
removed the outdated slider "sectorburst" and added instead "size of read ahead buffer" and "minimum overlap of sectors" for paranoia mode in the setup menu.
added new checkbox "suppress a hidden audio track"
fixed info output and track increment in GTK-window 'Reading audio tracks' for cdda2wav in paranoia mode.
changed cdrtools version check to allow only v3.02a09 or higher because v3.00a01 - v3.02a07 contain a bug and v2.01 is very outdated and may even not compile nowadays.
fixed xcdroast's mkisofs version detection since v3.02a01.
changed german translation to new orthography.

21.08.08:

RELEASED X-CD-Roast 0.98alpha16

20.08.08:

merged in all patches I received and published on my webpage in the last few years. (compile warnings fixes, locale fixes, wav detection fixes, removed pcre dependency from configure, crash fixes and version detection fixes - lot of thanks to all contributors!)
merged in several of the patches RedHat created for RPM version.
improved current cdrtools support.
removed extra handling for ProDVD, as this is all now integrated into the current cdrecord without any need for a key.
updated several translations.

26.10.03:

don't allow X-CD-Roast to overwrite symlinks. This may fix some possible security problems. Thanks to Stefan Nordhausen (nordhaus(at)informatik.hu-berlin.de) for pointing this out.
detect an invalid ProDVD-key when blanking CDs/DVDs.

25.10.03:

fix bug where X-CD-Roast was overwriting files smaller than 1 kb, without giving a warning.
add FILETREEBASE define to xcdroast.h to have all filetrees start at this value instead of root "/". If set to the string "$HOME" then the home-directory of the current user is used instead.
pass the ProDVD-key from root to all users, unless they have defined their own.
no longer preselect texts in entry fields, which messed with the cut&paste buffers.
write files with the extension .iso instead of .img.
fix bug where the TOC-file when duplicating CDs is not written to a writeable path.
check the version of cdrecord.ProDVD. Must be 2.01a11 or newer.
fix possible segfault when copy an audio CD on-the-fly with a lot of tracks.

19.10.03:

lots of work on the GTK2 port. Added a configure-option --enable-gtk2 to optionally compile X-CD-Roast against GTK2.

18.10.03:

integrated a patch from Joseph Wang (joe(at)confucius.gnacademy.org) which fixes a possible segfault while scanning for devices.
integrated a patch from Andrea Suatoni (a.suatoni(at)telefonica.net) which fixes a compile problem on IRIX systems.
integrated a patch from Frank Giessler (giessler(at)biomag.uni-jena.de) which fixes the usage of the cdrecord-ProDVD key on Solaris systems.
integrated a patch from Philipp Thomas (pthomas(at)suse.de) which makes xcdroast compile nicer on 64-bit platforms.
add new languages Romanian, Latvian and Albanian.
updated existing languages Dutch, Italian, French, Swedish, Estonian, Brasilian Portuguese, Japanese, Catalan, Czech, Hungarian, Polish, Russian, Finnish and Greek.
integrated experimental GTK2 patches by Fritz Ganter (ganter(at)ganter.at).

25.07.03:

published cdrtools201a17.patch which adopts the version checker to work with cdrtools-2.01a17 or newer.

18.07.03:

published debian_scan.patch which fixes a startup segmentation fault when scanning for ATAPI devices on debian systems.

31.05.03:

published dvd_atip.patch which fixes the display of ATIP information on DVD-media.

01.05.03:

published error_write_tracks.patch which fixes the incorrect message "Error writing tracks" shown with some writers.

29.05.03:

RELEASED X-CD-Roast 0.98alpha14

28.05.03:

fix unterminated string when printing symbolic links in debug output.
replace the X-CD-Roast logo by a slightly cleaner version.
include the very nice HTML-manual done by Thorsten Staerk. http://www.staerk.de/thorsten

27.05.03:

fix problem when write process did not report the internal buffer percentage value. (Odd display while writing)
add a tooltip for the drag-to-exclude field in the master menu.
make a return press work like OK in the add-manual-device menu.
remove any trailing colon from REMOTE-scsi specification.
print some extra warnings when using X-CD-Roast with a disabled non-root-mode. (On first start only)

26.05.03:

fix possible drag&drop crash.
some last german translation changes.
some detail improvements of the "Please wait while calculating image size" window.

25.05.03:

always use cdrecord-ProDVD to blank media when it is installed.
display "CD/DVD" instead of "CD" in most menus when ProDVD is available.
display DVD or CD as media type based on the image size.
when scanning for devices print duplicates in round brackets.

24.05.03:

show "Calculating..." in session-size display of the master menu when gathering session size.
display a "Please wait" window when session size calculation takes longer then five seconds.
recoded the reading of the TOC of a CD/DVD not to freeze X-CD-Roast.
when reading of the TOC takes longer than five seconds (e.g. ATAPI setup) display a window explaining what is happening and what to do to speed it up. (insert medium and/or install scsi-emulation)

23.05.03:

fix junk display when reading data tracks on a very loaded machine.
switched to a new set of device icons. Thanks to Everaldo Coelho and Torsten Rahn from the KDE team.
also thanks to Martin Uhl for creating a DVD-Writer icon and sending a lot of suggestions of simple usage improvements.
set mouse cursor graphics correctly.
on Mac OS X use the -a switch to disable the autodiskmount daemon handling.

22.05.03:

changed drag&drop not to need shift drag to exclude and added a "drop here to exclude" area to the master dialog.
change some spacings to group buttons better.

21.05.03:

updated norwegian translation, thanks to Stig Hornang (stig(at)rozinante.net)

20.05.03:

on Mac OS X prefocus the password entry dialog and allow a return press instead of a click on OK.
fix possible core dump when starting without devices.
add note about how to disable resolution check to man page.

19.05.03:

fix last leftovers from old non-root-mode.
rearrange xpms directory to suit new autoconf config.

18.05.03:

added greek translation, thanks to Filippos Papadopoulos (csst9923(at)cs.uoi.gr)
added ukrainian translation, thanks to Maxim Dzumanenko (mvd(at)mylinux.com.ua)
use the autoconf supplied "make install" instead of my own. Thanks to Peter Breitenlohner for the patch.
start to create new german translation.

17.05.03:

display one-time-warning when X-CD-Roast was compiled without non-root-support to remind the user to use an official version from my page for full functionality.
hint the user to select a DVD media size when trying to write a DVD image while having a 80min-CD-R choosen.
warn user about not choosing an ATAPI device to write CDs. (Suggests to install scsi-emulation.)
warn user when user selects his DVD-Writer in setup, but has not yet ProDVD support installed.
disable write-mode selector when doing multisession. Multisession only works in TAO mode.

16.05.03:

allow on-the-fly copy of CD-Extra by skipping the last data track.
fix display of wrong DVD size on some devices.
display "Insert DVD-R/RW" instead of "Insert CD-R/RW" when appropriate.
xcdrwrap knows about the cdrtools-local-root-exploit and will not allow that.

15.05.03:

Warn when writespeed is higher than the readspeed in on-the-fly copy.
finish CD-Text support for audio-on-the-fly.

14.05.03:

further work on CD-Text support for on-the-fly copy.

13.05.03:

first working audio-on-the-fly copy. (No CD-Text yet)
fixed display problems of write dialog when using a new cdrecord version.

11.05.03:

fix bug when after writing a multisession image file the image information was not updated correctly.
warn user when he tries to use a faulty drive that insists to read data CDs with 2352 byte sectors.
don't let processbar reach 100% when writing failed.
start to implement the brand new audio-on-the-fly support of the very newest cdrecord versions.

10.05.03:

complete -boot-load-size and -boot-info-table and don't check boot-image filesize when it is not a floppy image.

09.05.03:

allow creation of CD-Extra. (Enable writing of audio tracks in multisession mode)
start to implement the -boot-load-size and -boot-info-table mkisofs options.

07.05.03:

display if a DVD-R/RW or a CD-R/RW is in the drive.

04.05.03:

drawn new icons for added and excluded files in the master-menu.
add option "-iso-level" to the advanced ISO9660-options.

03.05.03:

add option to keep last directory level when adding multiple paths in the master menu.
always display filenames in master-path-list when we have added single files.
look into the fixed font problem (chinese instead of german characters)
add a second "write as multisession" button to the create- session-menu to avoid confusion.
add support for 30 and 50 minute CDs.
fix on-the-fly writing for some non-linux platforms. (added -waiti cdrecord option)
display a warning at startup when no ProDVD key is set.

02.05.03:

let the user choose to skip invalid ISRC or MCN numbers when writing audio tracks.

30.04.03:

detect invalid ISRC or MCN numbers before writing audio tracks.

29.04.03:

add -scanbus for REMOTE-SCSI devices.

27.04.03:

show warning when user is about to change the cdrecord driver setting in setup.
strip CDR_SECURITY= part from an incorrectly entered ProDVD key.
forbid to set the "do not fixate" option in multisession mode.
fix detection of multisession CDs on new drives.

25.04.03:

added new experimental Mac OS X autodiskmount daemon handling.

23.04.03:

code cleanup to declare all local functions static.
add option to display progress status in the window titlebar. (useful when you iconify X-CD-Roast while burning)

22.04.03:

code cleanup of unnecessary global variables. (added a lot of static declarations)
add saving and loading window position and size in setup. (works with main and burning/reading window)

21.04.03:

only scan for devices at first startup of X-CD-Roast.
remove the "-i" command line option. It is no longer required.
add a write-mode selector within the master-on-the-fly-menu.

18.04.03:

install a test linux kernel 2.5.67 to verify the new ATAPI support. Works MUCH better than for the 2.4.x kernels.
prepare a setup to test REMOTE-SCSI.
integrated full REMOTE-SCSI support.

16.04.03:

add option "remove device" in device scan menu. (right click shows a context menu)

15.04.03:

allow to add a single manual device.

14.04.03:

add "manually add device" button in setup.

13.04.03:

implement "rescan devices" button in setup.

12.04.03:

update write mode and burnproof status when switching writers in the write-menus.
include driver-options into new device structure.

11.04.03:

pick not DAO as default mode, but the first one supported by the selected device.
add workaround to detect non-mmc writers correctly.
make the cancel-button in setup work as expected again.

10.04.03:

include DVD-writer icon
last modifications to make all parts of X-CD-Roast work with the new device structure.
display supported write modes for each device in the write-menus. (grey out unsupported modes in selector)

09.04.03:

display new device data in selectors on top of each menu.

08.04.03:

display new device data in CD-Writer/Reader setup menu.

07.04.03:

add loading and saving of the new device structure

06.04.03:

implemented parts of new device scanning code.

05.04.03:

start of a major rewrite of all internal device structures.

26.03.03:

updated polish translation, thanks to Robert Gomulka (carramba(at)pf.pl)

16.03.03:

use geteuid() instead of getuid() when checking for root.

11.03.03:

more tweaks to get drag&drop working with both nautilus (Gnome) and konqueror (KDE).

10.03.03:

change the internal used drag&drop method on exchanging data.

09.03.03:

remember scroll-positions of all scrollable lists when adding or removing tracks/files/directories.

08.03.03:

fix possible crash cause when quotes were in the cd-text data.
remove old non-root-mode code and enable the new and improved mode. (No longer changed group or file modes required on any of the cdrtools.)

23.02.03:

rewrite large parts of the xcdrwrap-programm. It's now free of external library references and offer maximum security for the new non-root-mode.

22.02.03:

allow to redirect multiple paths at once.
allow to drag files from the master-directories-list back to the fileselector to remove them from the list.

19.02.03:

enable shift-drag to exclude master directories in the master-menu. (disabled that again, because it did not work in KDE correctly)

18.02.03:

allow to reorder tracks by drag&drop in write tracks menu.

17.02.03:

its now possible to add and remove tracks with drag&drop from within the write-tracks menu.

16.02.03:

merged irix patches from Andrea Suatoni (a.suatoni(at)telefonica.net) (mostly sound support)
switch "layout tracks" and "write tracks" tabs in write-tracks menu.
first support of drag&drop in the write-tracks menu

15.02.03:

allow drag selected files or directories from the file tree selector within X-CD-Roast.

12.02.03:

make master-windows sensitive for drag&drop. Its now possible to use any filemanager to add files to burn.

10.02.03:

working drag&drop in setup menu (drop directory names from a filemanager into the image-directory list.)

09.02.03:

optimized screen space to make more room for larger translations.
updated russian translation, thanks to Vitaly Lipatov (lav(at)altlinux.ru)
experiment with drag&drop code in setup menu.

04.02.03:

fix missing \n in init.c debug-output.

16.01.03:

detect case where some drives return a sector size of 2352 instead of 2048.

14.01.03:

updated french translation, thanks to Ferdinand de Broich (firebird(at)chez.com)
updated brazilian translation, thanks to Silva Syndson (syndson(at)telelistas.net)

13.01.03:

updated czech translation, thanks to Adam Pribyl fix bug where the mkisofs output charset was not set correctly.

04.01.03:

updated hungarian translation, thanks to Kósa Lajos (kosal(at)novonet.hu)

03.01.03:

updated brazilian translation, thanks to Silva Syndson (syndson(at)telelistas.net)

01.01.03:

RELEASED X-CD-Roast 0.98alpha13
don't display warnings about symbolic cdrtools links when nonroot-mode is disabled.
warn user who tries to remaster an ISO-file instead of using the write-tracks menu.
fix to read all the stderr output of cdrecord

31.12.02:

clean up debug output that contained backspaces.
rollback new child processing code completely - fixes the multisession problems.
rewrite handler for failed ProDVD-key checks.

28.12.02:

fix byte order of wavplayer on spark-based linux

27.12.02:

fix typo in acinclude.m4 that causes a warning inside the configure run.

26.12.02:

updated brazilian translation, thanks to Silva Syndson (syndson(at)linuxbr.com.br)
updated hungarian translation, thanks to Lajos Kósa (kosal(at)novonet.hu)

23.11.02:

RELEASED X-CD-Roast 0.98alpha12

22.12.02:

correct problem where last stderr output of cdrecord was not catched.
experimental support for the ATA-interface in linux 2.4.x kernels. Devices no longer require scsi-emulation, but there is no DMA supported then.
new command line option "-a" to disable the extra device scans. (e.g. the ATA support on linux)
describe multiple instances support of X-CD-Roast in man-page.

21.12.02:

display a warning dialog when an invalid ProDVD key is detected (required major changes in subprocess handling)

17.12.02:

fix small typo in io.c (forget \n in debugoutput)
redesign of the cdrecord-ProDVD support. X-CD-Roast now looks for a "cdrecord.prodvd" binary instead of expecting that the original cdrecord version gets overwritten. See README.ProDVD.
add command-line option "-w" to disable ProDVD support.
only use cdrecord-ProDVD when a media size greater than 1 GB is selected (to avoid the lowspeed limitation of the free key on non-DVD media)

16.12.02:

print cdrtools paths at startup for debug purposes.

15.12.02:

received updated polish translation. Thanks to Robert Gomuka (carramba(at)pf.pl)
--disable-nonrootmode is working now. X-CD-Roast will ignore all users, groups and permission settings. Use at own risk.
fix CDR_SECURITY environment problem on linux. The entry field in the setup for the ProDVD key should work now fine.
determine the paths for chmod, chown and chgrp automatically now.
fix socketpair problem that caused verify to fail in alpha11.

14.12.02:

cleanup code to support --disable-nls
add new configure option "--disable-nonrootmode"
downgrade gettext from 0.11.5 to 0.11.2, because of MacOSX problems.

11.12.02:

added support for proxy-authentication. Use the format "user:pass@proxyserver" in the proxy-host entry field.

10.12.02:

received updated hungarian translation. Thanks to Lajos Kósa (kosal(at)novonet.hu)

03.12.02:

received partial updated brasilian translation from Silva Syndson (syndson(at)linuxbr.com.br)

26.11.02:

RELEASED X-CD-Roast 0.98alpha11

24.11.02:

complete german translation
use --sysconfdir from ./configure as default directory to store the root-config file.
fix problem with long album titles in cddbtool

23.11.02:

fix missleading debug output when copying on-the-fly
print a warning when user tries to master a data CD containing only .wav files in the hope to get a Audio-CD
make verbose level of mkisofs configureable in the advanced iso-options menu
don't display 100% progress if fixation still runs
print instructions on systems without a "groupadd" command when enabling non-root-mode
update dialog message when trying to write additional sessions on empty media
add hint about FAQ in device scan screen

22.11.02:

allow CDDB-lookups of CD-Text from toc-file in the "Write Tracks" menu

20.11.02:

add option to warn before overwriting image files on disk
don't cache non existant CD-Text
extend .toc file format to allow CDDB lookup without CD

19.11.02:

add warning when no cdrtools are found at startup

18.11.02:

don't a space in "dev= 0,0,0" cdrecord calls anymore
change defaults of non-root mode to "allow all"
allow to override the minimal-resolution-required error with the -n command line option
add 23 and 27 minutes CD-R
fix problem when output of cdrecord gets lost in some cases
workaround problem when cdda2wav fails to get the correct TOC form a DVD

17.11.02:

dont allow 0 as valid sector-burst value in setup
write the root-configfiles to the correct spot, even when $HOME is not correctly set. (Like when using sys/super scripts)
check if /tmp is writeable and not full
print master/exclude paths in debug output
take care to remove temporary xcdr-files from /tmp at exit
treat DVD sizes correctly (4.7GB equal to 4.700.000.000 bytes)

16.11.02:

add a lot of new mkisofs options
save view-options of file browser with iso-options
use fixed-width font in cdrtools-output windows

14.11.02:

verify saneness of boot-image settings - creating bootable CDs should be much easier now

13.11.02:

automatically determine relative boot-image path from absolute given one in the bootable CD menue

12.11.02:

allow the backspace or delete key to remove master-paths
add save-output button to mkisofs calculate size menu
add "show hidden files" option to file browser

11.11.02:

add a entry for the ProDVD key in the setup -> you no longer need a wrapper or set the CDR_SECURITY environment variable yourself

10.11.02:

make new write options to actually work and add a save button to set them as default

09.11.02:

create an advanced write option dialog - support for Audiomaster, VariRec, Forcespeed and more.

08.11.02:

merge in FreeBSD patches from Oliver Lehmann (lehmann(at)ans-netz.de)
merge in OpenBSD source patches from Jolan Luff (jolan(at)cryptonomicon.org)
merge in ISO9660-header extraction patches from Juho Vähä-Herttua (juhovh(at)iki.fi)

07.11.02:

fix /bin/df-output parser to handle non-english languages

06.11.02:

fix some troubles in the cdda2wav output parser
display buffer-fill and write speed in writing-window

05.11.02:

default index-scanning to off
set gracetime on cdrecord to the minimum of 2 seconds
extend cdrecord output parser to get buffer-fill and current write speed

04.11.02:

finish paranoia mode integration

02.11.02:

support new versions of cdda2wav (change of -v option)

01.11.02:

merged in CDDB HTTP/Proxy patches from Martin Haunfelder (mhaunfelder(at)gmx.de). Big thanks!
added support for the CDDB patches in the setup menu
center logo graphic in startup screen

31.10.02:

support on-the-fly langugage switching in setup with gettext

30.10.02:

converted all existing translations to gettext - get rid of dozens of translations bugs

29.10.02:

create tools to convert old translation-files to gettext po files

28.10.02:

code conversion to utilize gettext completed

24.10.02:

started to convert the source to use gettext instead of the old proprietary language system

23.10.02:

fix badmatch() errors on non-XFree86 X-Servers (should also fix color problems on non truecolor displays)
improved autoconf setup

22.10.02:

add russian translation
update czech translation

21.10.02:

working prototype of autoconf setup

20.10.02:

end of summer break
start to convert Makefile to autoconf/automake

04.05.02:

Use socketpair() instead of pipe() when available. This enhances communication with cdrecord due full-duplex support.
experimental support of -paranoia flag of cdda2wav

23.04.02:

RELEASED X-CD-Roast 0.98alpha10
warn when cdrtools are links instead of real files

22.04.02:

fix bug in non-root-configurator
make write-speed display in menu-headers a little larger
redesign dialogs on startup
fix problem on pressing "continue anyway" when out of diskspace
no longer check for multisession automatically on entering the master menu

21.04.02:

don't crash when loading broken master-paths

20.04.02:

wrote man page
fix problem about not setting the image paths when in nonroot mode
allow to select multiple master-paths/excludes at the same time

19.04.02:

check also mmap error when getting toc with cdda2wav
add raw writing modes
cdrtools version check accepts now silently also newer versions (may cause some trouble in the future...)
warn when DVD mode, but no CDR_SECURITY key set

18.04.02:

warn when no large file support in DVD mode
warn when trying to do multisession in DVD mode
check for cdrecord mmap error on startup
remove quit-confirmation
fix display of clock-cursor in several cases

17.04.02:

add possibility to translate the blank mode strings

16.04.02:

special multisession handling for sony drives (untested)
allow exclusion of wildcard-matches of master files
use WEXITSTATUS-makro to get subprocess return codes

15.04.02:

updated new italian translation
add "auto calculate of session size" button
"remove" button removes now both master-path and redirection
enter empty string at "redirect" button will remove redirection
add "Blank CD-RW" button to master menu

14.04.02:

handle multisession in Write-Tracks menu

13.04.02:

complete on-the-fly multisession master
allow multisession images created on disk

12.04.02:

support reload disk when calling cdrecord -msinfo

11.04.02:

call cdrecord -msinfo to get multisession info
show available space on CD-R in session view

05.04.02:

fix path-handling in session-view to accept a lot of paths
fix handling of filenames with backslashes, quotes, equal signs and parentheses.

04.04.02:

add "load list" and "save list" to session-view
start with homedir of user in the master directory browser

03.04.02:

add "clear list" option in session-view

02.04.02:

add master option to add a path with last path-component only
add a context menu in the master session-view (right click)

01.04.02:

added large file support (files bigger than 2 GB should be now detected fine by X-CD-Roast. Mostly untested)
rewrite "needed space" calculation for big files

29.03.02:

add detection for cdrecord ProDVD
add DVD-Media sizes

28.03.02:

no longer require to press "Accept Track Layout" button in the Write-Tracks menu
complete edit CD-Text for creating CDs.

27.03.02:

support "albumperformer" in cdrtools-1.11a19

26.03.02:

complete edit CD-Text for duplicating CDs

25.03.02:

adapt edit CD-Text to work also in Write-CD menu
fix title/artist order from CDDB

24.03.02:

edit CD-Text working in Info-CD screen

23.03.02:

work on edit CD-Text

22.03.02:

draft of edit CD-Text menu

21.03.02:

added option to enable/disable burnfree (burnproof) writing
added option to allow overburning
added option to write CD-Text
add buttons to edit CD-Text
use "burnfree" option instead of "burnproof" on cdrecord

20.03.02:

put write-modes into an option menu instead of using radio-buttons
reduced border sizes of the menus to get much more screen space

19.03.02:

initial design of CD-Text support

17.03.02:

pushed max write speed to 64x
finish non-root-mode configurator

16.03.02:

enable "activate non-root-mode" button

15.03.02:

design of new non-root-configuration menu

14.03.02:

change boot.catalog default value to relative path
add norwegian translation (no help files yet)
updated hungarian, galecian, italian and japanse translation
add new text-string-ids to avoid confusion with translation of the users-pane in setup

13.03.02:

add 34min CD-R to list

12.03.02:

replace Imlib completely by the gdkpixbuf library
don't use -? as option for xcdrwrap
make the group "cdwrite" configureable in xcdroast.h and change to "xcdwrite" because some folks complained

02.12.01:

changed 512 byte sector patch to accept dynamic sector sizes

30.11.01:

support reload disk when blanking CD-RW

29.11.01:

experimental 512 byte sector size support for Solaris

26.11.01:

updated italian translation

25.11.01:

merged AIX sound patches from Martin Gansser
updated swedish, polish and czech translation

21.11.01:

included full audio support for Mac OS X
fix potential crash in xcdrwrap

18.11.01:

rewrote language.c to use own string handling instead of calling malloc 30000 times
created Makefile for Mac OS X
new scsi-device scanner for Mac OS X

18.07.01:

RELEASED X-CD-Roast 0.98alpha9

17.07.01:

update the writeable flag in HD setup
final touches to non-root wrapper

16.07.01:

add CDRTOOLS_PREFIX in Makefile for more flexible installation
show image-list in verify tracks menu even when no CD is loaded
check if image directories are writeable

15.07.01:

set permissions of /etc/xcdroast.conf to 644 after first start when old version found
remove -r commandline option for security reasons
make wrapper checking allowed users and hosts
make process windows wider to avoid cut-off labels
make "minimaly blank" mode default
allow verifying of self-mastered or external iso tracks

14.07.01:

first version of non-root wrapper useable
set correct filemodes on saved text-outputs
create the configuration directory at startup
fix bug in non-root-mode when you can cancel out of setup without setting image directories
check for common "cannot open new session" errors in cdrecord output and advise user to switch to TAO
handle dos format textfile format

13.07.01:

first tests with the non-root wrapper
add -n switch to commandline help

12.07.01:

dont set tooltip color manually - it screws up multibyte fonts

11.07.01:

added japanese translation

10.07.01:

added option in setup to save a default write mode setting

08.07.01:

added galician translation
added new dialog in master-menu which does the redirection stuff when adding directories automatically

28.06.01:

fix problem when copying an unpadded CD-R. (last sectors got lost)

27.06.01:

manual scanbus override should work now. I am interested in feedback.

26.06.01:

new commandline option to give a list of devices, instead of using -scanbus. Very useful on AIX and OpenBSD systems.

24.06.01:

dont expand ~/ in logfile setting (broke in non-root-mode)
add startup-message in logfile
workaround for crash caused by eazel-gtk-theme (mandrake 8.0)
fix a lot of cursor leaks
fix crash when writing a toc file on solaris
use sectors on mkisofs tsize option

23.06.01:

integrate joliet charsets into the master-menu (Also thanks to Georgy Salnikov for the idea)
dont crash on unknown group-ids

22.06.01:

query joliet charsets from mkisofs

21.06.01:

reworked verifying code. (Thanks to Georgy Salnikov)
verifying of padded CDs works now fine.

20.06.01:

make cdrtools-1.10 default

19.06.01:

had other stuff to do. Got back to work at X-CD-Roast
update translations for brasilian portuguese, estonian, slovak and french
added translations for finnish, bulgarian and czech.
allow image-directories with space in their name
sort the image-list display alphabetically
merged AIX and HP-UX audio patches from Stefan Benke (benke(at)iam.rwth-aachen.de)
fixed possible crash when a CD-Extra is inserted
corrected tons of typos in the documentation

25.12.00:

fix wav-file detection code (Thanks to Mark Bratcher)

01.12.00:

fix some compiler warnings

29.11.00:

fix cdrecord scanbus parser crash on HP-UX

26.11.00:

RELEASED X-CD-Roast 0.98alpha8

25.11.00:

update translations for swedisch and hungarian
make X-CD-Roast print much more precise error messages concerning permissions of the helper binaries
print command line of cdrecord into process output window (helping to get more useful debug-output)
report when cdda2wav got no permission to write a track on HD.

18.11.00:

fix crash when using -o switch (alternative font code)

11.11.00:

fix makefile not to put x-bit on images/languages/sound

08.11.00:

fix display of index-scanner when reading audio

06.11.00:

fix rare crash of wav-player

04.11.00:

RELEASED X-CD-Roast 0.98alpha7
rewrite delete-tracks not to crash when a lot of files were selected

03.11.00:

fix permissions of /etc/xcdroast.conf

29.10.00:

add bash2 detection and special handling for non-root-mode
fix bug when sidebar got wrong width at startup

27.10.00:

add tooltips for non-root setup menu
add switch to disable version check at startup

25.10.00:

load and save root-config file

23.10.00:

set correct group-permissions for non-root-mode

21.10.00:

split xcdrdata.h from xcdroast.h

20.10.00:

finished first draft of non-root-mode setup menu

16.10.00:

start design of non-root-mode setup menu

15.10.00:

make X-CD-Roast look for the cdrecord-tools first in its private lib-directory and then in $PREFIX/bin (e.g. /usr/bin/cdrecord)
detect read-errors when reading data tracks.
add update-buttons in Read-CD and Verify-CD menus

08.10.00:

make extended view in status-windows enabled by default
rewrite scsibus-parser to make it more robust
rewrite scsibus-parser to make it more robust
change check of medium in drive, should now work better on some platforms

04.09.00:

merge indonesian translation

03.09.00:

fix crash when starting X-CD-Roast with changed hardware

23.08.00:

make some changes to use cdrtools-1.9

17.08.00:

merge translation updates for: french, swedish, slovak, brasilian portuguese and hungarian
fix misaligned disclaimer window
show startup errors about root-permission and failed scsibus in dialog windows and not on stderr.
change disclaimer text

16.07.00:

change version scanning of cdda2wav from --help to -h

15.07.00:

check for df and uname in both /bin and /usr/bin
enable sound support for FreeBSD

09.07.00:

RELEASED X-CD-Roast 0.98alpha6
enable burnproof if available
display full filename of /images in "write tracks"

08.07.00:

create toc-file in selected path, instead in the first defined
merged slovak translation and updated dansk
allow verifying tracks without inf-files (e.g. for downloaded iso-/images)
add support for 89 min CDs
fixed CD-display in read/verify-tracks after been in the master-menu
allow xcdroast start without any found devices (-i option) (this way you cannot burn, but create /images with mkisofs)
add burnproof-logo to start screen

05.07.00:

cursor-patch to fix segfaults on AXP-machines. Thx to Christian R Molls (CMolls(at)gmx.net)

12.06.00:

add color-pixmap-icon for window-manager when iconified

06.06.00:

fix free-size-bug when mastering (factor 2 wrong)
fix write-progressbar when padding is enabled

05.06.00:

make "accept tracklayout" button more visible
fix master-size calculation (displayed wrong block-size)

04.06.00:

version-check of all helper-bins
new setup-option for extended selection in lists

30.05.00:

new option -o to enable the old font-code. Which fixes special chars on older distributions

29.05.00:

display end of toc-filename when too long
make cdrecord scsibus-parser more flexible
wavplay opens now the audio-device nonblocking
update some tooltips
don't crash on invalid toc or inf files
add new option to cddbtool to make it useable for scripts (-m = preselect match and dont wait for user input)

28.05.00:

merged hpux-audio-patches by Stefan Benke (benke(at)iam.rwth-aachen.de)
merged a lot of language updates I got in the last weeks.

21.03.00:

fix crash when SCSI-revision field is empty

20.03.00:

RELEASED X-CD-Roast 0.98alpha5

19.03.00:

add master on-the-fly functionality.
fix cddbtool when track title was split over several lines.
change slider values for read options in setup.

16.03.00:

add create master image functionality.

15.03.00:

layouted mkisofs process window.

13.03.00:

add "system default" option to language-menu. Should be used to be sure your locale setting is correctly used.

12.03.00:

finished with tooltips for master menu.
track allocation code for master menu.
session-size calculation.

09.03.00:

included enhanced lang_extract.sh to make translations even simpler.
did some more tooltips for master menu.

08.03.00:

merged in turkish language.

07.03.00:

added multibyte support patches by C.W.Huang.

05.03.00:

started work on tooltips for master menu.

01.03.00:

merged in catalan language.

24.02.00 - 01.03.00:

CeBIT 2000 in Hannover/Germany
been there with a special prepared X-CD-Roast demo.

19.02.00:

fix some more possible core dump locations.
coded mkisofs commandline generator.

18.02.00:

fix possible core dump when writing toc-files.

17.02.00:

rework configuration file parser.
workaround for the problem that cdda2wav outputs text on stdout instead of stderr.

16.02.00:

coded iso-headers menu.

15.02.00:

coded boot-option menu.

14.02.00:

allow configuration of absolute paths for cdrecord and friends. (in xcdroast.h)

13.02.00:

iso-option menu completed.

11.02.00:

starting coding the iso-option menu.

09.02.00:

prototype for session-view done.

08.02.00:

merged in reworked italian translation.

07.02.00:

again hacking the directory browser.

06.02.00:

check screenresolution also when 100dpi fonts are used.
enhance directory browser - allows now to switch from file to directory view.

05.02.00:

add first version of directory browser to master menu.

04.02.00:

merged in brasilian portuguese.

03.02.00:

fixed some problems with unsigned variables (getopt working now also on IRIX).

01.02.00:

set MAXLANG to 20.

30.01.00:

layout boot-option menu.

29.01.00:

layout iso-header menu.

28.01.00:

merge in spanish translation.
merge in in update for italian.

25.01.00:

merge in croatian translation.
layout iso-option menu.

23.01.00:

added gtk_set_locale();
merge in update for estonian.

22.01.00:

RELEASED X-CD-Roast 0.98alpha4
Set write-speed when blanking CD-RW.
Rewrite TRANSLATION.HOWTO
Fix some stuff in language.c
Re-enable disclaimer-screen (forgot for alpha3)

21.01.00:

Merge in updated languages for french and swedish.
Include lang_extract.sh to make translations easier.
Sequence check language-files at startup.
All helper-tools print now version number.

18.01.00:

Automatic resize of sidebar when resizing main-window.
Rework language.c (thx to Argo Vessmann)
Autodetect font size at startup and resize windows for best fit.
Don't coredump when failing to load icons//images.

17.01.00:

Fix coredump when user clicked on buttons while reloading/ejecting a CD.
Display usage when cddbtool called without arguments.

16.01.00:

RELEASED X-CD-Roast 0.98alpha3
Recode "Read CD" to use bulk-mode of cdda2wav.
Add index scanning to "Read CD".
Use imlib-config in makefile

15.01.00:

Ensure that the progressbars reach 100% after reading/verifying.
Display CD-Text even when no artist is defined.
Strip carriage return from debug output.
Implement index scanning in "Read Tracks".

14.01.00:

Included estonian translation by Argo Vessmann.

13.01.00:

Tooltips for alpha3 finished.

11.01.00:

Start to catch up on tooltip help.

09.01.00:

Done track reorder code for "Write Tracks".
Add "Fixate only" button.
Finish "Write-Track" (No on-the-fly support yet)

08.01.00:

Deep into "Write Tracks".

07.01.00:

Layouted "Write Tracks".
Add support for future 99min CD-Rs.

06.01.00:

Included danish translation by Lars Juul.
Finished "Verify Tracks."
Fixed a lot of callback-function to use GINT_TO_POINTER-macros.

03.01.00:

Further hacking on "Verify Tracks".

02.01.00:

Finished "Read Tracks".
Start on "Verify Tracks."

31.12.99:

List code for "Read Tracks" done.

28.12.99:

Layouted "Verify Tracks" menu.

27.12.99:

Included spanish translation by Jose Luis Benitez Crespo.
Included french translation by Ferdinand de Broich.
Add "index-scan" button in "Read CD" menu.
Allow to start read tracks, even when running out of diskspace.
Layouted "Read Tracks" menu.

19.12.99:

Included swedish translation by Richard Torkar.
Implemented skeleton of "Create CD" menu.

18.12.99:

add FAQ about sector sizes.
fix display of TOC-filenames when they are getting to long.

12.12.99:

RELEASED X-CD-Roast 0.98alpha2
Included dutch translation by Edwin Hakkennes.
Add eject/reset writer option in write-menu. (Useful when you abort writing/simulation and the writer is locked)

11.12.99:

Change order of buttons in delete-track menu
Add TRANSLATION.HOWTO file
Update image-dir display also after aborted/error read.
Check CD in drive before starting to read
Set watch-cursor when changing image-directories
Move "Eject CD" button in CD/image info-screen next to the device selector. Also add an "Load CD" button.
Fix core dump when trying to play empty wav file.

09.12.99:

Fix null-pointer-reference when looking up $HOME
Fix CD-size calculation bug (reported a few secs to less)

07.12.99:

Check if /bin/uname and /bin/df exist before starting.

05.12.99:

Look for cdrtools-backend programs in $(PREFIX)/xcdroast-0.98/lib/bin instead of /usr/local/bin.
Don't create a /usr/local/share/xcdroast-0.98 - use /usr/local/lib/xcdroast-0.98 (a share-dir must not contain binaries)
Set the eject button in blank-menu default on.
Change the Makefile to force the user to read the README
New version a33 of cdrecord fixes the write-abort-problem. (Hanging cdrecord which must be killed manually)
Started to write a FAQ.

04.12.99:

Reduce window-size by 10 pixels to 790x540. Now it should fit nicely on the screen even with window-manager-decorations and a 800x600 resolution.
Do check if screen-resolution is at least 800x600 - otherwise X-CD-Roast will not start.

28.11.99:

Change makefile to "cp" helper binaries instead of "mv" them.
Check if cue-sheet send failed and tell user to use TAO-mode in this case.

27.11.99:

Fix warnings about sharedir at program start.

26.11.99:

Fix several null-pointer references which caused a core on Solaris.
Create ~/.xcdroast directory if not existing.
Set cdda2wav to really create wav-files (not .au on Solaris)
Also check LC_MESSAGES about language-code to use.
Allow dsp-test only when a dsp-device is set.
Preselect an exact CDDB-hit (saves one mouse-click)

25.11.99:

Fix makefile for Solaris.
Fix getopt-includes for Solaris.
Fix set-read-speed for reading audio-tracks.

24.11.99:

RELEASED X-CD-Roast 0.98alpha1

11.11.2018 T. Niederreiter (tn@xcdroast.org)