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0.7.3
2009-08-17 13:31:59

You can grab the 0.7.3 release from the download page.

This release kills a number of bugs. The major bug killed is the failure to continue to update after running for quite awhile (usually only noticeable when running in screen for hours on end, although it could've cropped up earlier than that). Hard filters had to be tweaked again, I'm not sure why but the conditional wrapped in a lambda ceased to work so it was eliminated... I'm disappointed that I didn't catch this before, but it could be a 2.6 quirk (or I just didn't test hard enough).

The rest are pretty minor. Clearing up some poor behavior, usually only triggered on a few feeds (particularly the shadows).

A note to Gentoo users

The ebuild in the sunrise overlay is old (0.6.7), but should still be valid with a rename (and -9999 works), although it requires Python 2.6 or a slot dependency on 2.5 w/dev-python/processing (not an issue since most of you should have 2.6). Anyone willing to step up and maintain the overlay ebuild, feel free. The bug for inclusion is here if you want to chime in, or if you're a maintainer looking for an easy package to put into Portage.

As it is, I'm trying to avoid packaging stuff myself, I haven't done that since Debian picked up the package and I stopped building .debs.

Anyway, have fun! Submit bugs!


Send all bug reports to canto-reader [at] codezen [dot] org
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