Release Info

Problems With 1.0rc2

Nov 21st

A number of users reported problems with 1.0rc2 crashing whenever someone tried to talk. 1.0rc2.2 is now available for download which should correct this problem. My apologies for not catching this.

There have also been some reports about Mangler hanging when starting up. This is caused by errors reading the configuration file, but we cannot reproduce. If this is happening to you, you can remove your ~/.manglerrc file (save your server list information!) and start Mangler again. This will recreate the file.

Snapshot and Packages for 1.0rc2 Available

Nov 21st

Posted by econnell in News

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Mangler 1.0rc2 is available today with some major bug fixes. Thanks to everyone that reported bugs from the 1.0rc1 release. The major bugs fixed are:

Fixed a few pretty major memory leaks
Properly implement password protected channel hierarchy (sub-channels are protected by parent channel passwords)
Support servers that do not allow you to view the channel list
Added PTT support for mouse buttons 8/9
Added Gnome desktop information files and icons
Increased the maximum amplification for per-user volume
Fix for speex channel specific codec format changes
Fixed a bug/crash in outbound speex codec processing
Fixed the last transmit timestamp resetting on comment change or channel change

There is still a major issue on some Speex codec combinations that are causing issues. It is possible that — depending on your server codec — you can get temporarily banned by attempting a transmit. Unfortunately, the only way to get yourself unbanned is to restart the server. This issue is currently our highest priority. This only affects specific Speex codec formats and specific servers. For example, Speex @32khz Quality 10 is known to function normally. Speex @16khz Quality 5 is known to cause problems. Other formats may or may not work. When this problem is resolved, we will release rc3 immediately.

Two Month Anniversary Snapshot for 1.0rc1

Nov 13th

Posted by econnell in Release Info

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Two months ago today, I wrote out the beginnings of libventrilo3. It barely worked, and when it did work, all it did was display some hex packet dumps while attempting to connect to a server. The whole thing was about 1000 lines of code and the majority of that was debug code.

Two months, 8,800 lines of code (11,200 if you include the UI definition), and hundreds of hours of staring at network packet dumps later, we have a stable and functional client. And more importantly, we’re about two weeks away from release. Today’s snapshot is Mangler 1.0 release candidate 1.

New features since the previous snapshot include:

Per-user volume settings (double click a user in the channel list)
Mouse button push-to-talk
Fix all ticking audio in both Speex and GSM (in both directions)
Added notification sounds for users joining your channel, login, logout, etc. (disable them in Settings -> Audio)
The server list window is fully implemented
The ability to set your comment, URL, and your music player text
And of course, other minor bug fixes.

An additional feature that may squeak into 1.0 is music player integration for showing your current media player’s song as “now playing” in the channel list.

I also want to say thanks to Darryl Grennan (a.k.a. x3464) who was the most active person performing QA testing for us. I can’t stress enough that if we don’t know about the bugs and/or it’s not behaving the way you think it should, we need to know about it, especially during this phase.

New Features in SVN Since Halloween

Nov 7th

Posted by econnell in News

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For those not following the Trac timeline, we’ve added a bunch of new features since the 10/31/2009 snapshot. Per-user volume control is done. We’ve fixed all ticking sounds in audio, and there’s notification sounds for various events now. There’s a number of bug fixes as well. We haven’t completed the server list window yet, but that should definitely be completed soon.

On November 13th, we’ll be releasing the next snapshot, which will be the first 1.0 release candidate with all of the new features.

Halloween Snapshot Available

Oct 31st

Posted by econnell in Release Info

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A new snapshot is available just in time for Halloween. With the the criticality of the bugs fixed today, we’ve released a new snapshot. Updates in this snapshot are: