QmidiNet - A MIDI Network Gateway via UDP/IP Multicast
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ChangeLog


1.0.1  2025-03-31  An Early Spring'25 Release.

- Fixed command line parsing (QCommandLineParser/Option) to not
  exiting the application with a segfault when showing help and
  version information.

- Prepping up next development cycle (Qt >= 6.8)


1.0.0  2024-06-19  An Unthinkable Release.

- Making up the unthinkable (aka. v1.0.0)


0.9.91  2024-05-01  A Spring'24 Release Candidate 2.

- Prepping the unthinkable (aka. v1.0.0-rc2)

- Updated to latest framework level (Qt >= 6.7)


0.9.90  2024-04-10  A Spring'24 Release Candidate.

- Prepping the unthinkable (aka. v1.0.0-rc1)


0.9.12  2024-01-24  A Winter'24 Release.

- Add Unique/Single instance support.

- Updated copyright headers into the New Year (2024).


0.9.11  2023-09-09  An End-of-Summer'23 Release.

- Preppings to next development cycle (Qt >= 6.6)


0.9.10  2023-06-01  A Spring'23 Release.

- Fixed lost or out of order messages on JACK-MIDI client.

- Prepping into the next development cycle (with Qt >= 6.5).


0.9.9  2023-03-23  An Early-Spring'23 Release.

- Bumping copyright headers to the brand new year.


0.9.8  2022-12-28  An End-of-Year'22 Release.

- Just bumping into the next develop cycle/season.


0.9.7  2022-10-03  An Early-Autumn'22 Release.

- Bumped version number into the next release season.


0.9.6  2022-04-02  A Spring'22 Release.

- Main application icon is now presented in scalable format (SVG).

- Migrated command line parsing to QCommandLineParser/Option
  (Qt >= 5.2)


0.9.5  2022-01-09  A Winter'22 Release.

- Dropped autotools (autoconf, automake, etc.) build system.


0.9.4  2021-07-04  An Early-Summer'21 Release.

- All builds default to Qt6 (Qt >= 6.1) where available.

- CMake is now the official build system.


0.9.3  2021-05-11  A Spring'21 Release.

- All packaging builds switching to CMake.


0.9.2  2021-03-14  An End-of-Winter'21 Release.

- Bumped version micro/dot number into the next develop cycle.


0.9.1  2021-02-07  A Winter'21 Release.

- Early preparations for the New Year develop(ment) cycle.


0.9.0  2020-12-17  A Winter'20 Release.

- Early fixing to build for Qt >= 6.0.0 and comply
  with C++17 standard.


0.6.3  2020-07-31  A Summer'20 Release.

- Early fixing to build for Qt >= 5.15.0.


0.6.2  2020-03-24  A Spring'20 Release.

- A scalable (.svg) icon version has been added.

- Make man page compression reproducible (after request
  by Jelle van der Waa, while on the Vee-Ones, thanks).

- Bumped copyright headers into the New Year (2020).


0.6.1  2019-12-22  The Winter'19 Release.

- Second attempt to fix the yet non-official though
  CMake build configuration.

- Provide a default IPv6 address, and feedback to the user
  in the options dialog (after a merge request by plcl aka.
  Pedro López-Cabanillas, thanks).

- When using ./configure --with-qt=... it is also necessary
  to adjust the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable (also
  by plcl aka. Pedro López-Cabanillas).


0.6.0  2019-10-17  An Autumn'19 Release.

- Populate automatically the network interface combo-box
  with detected interface names (after merge request by
  plcl aka. Pedro López-Cabanillas, thanks).

- Complete rewrite of all the basic network interface code,
  while using the Qt5 framework as far as needed to support
  IPv4 and IPv6 seamless and interchangeably.

- Added alternate yet non-official CMake build option.

- Fix HiDPI display screen effective support (Qt >= 5.6).

- Make sure compiler flags comply to c++11 as standard.


0.5.5  2019-07-12  A Summer'19 Release.

- Configure updated to check for qtchooser availability.

- Minor update to Debian packaging control file.


0.5.4  2019-04-11  A Spring-Break'19 Release.

- Fix build on linux with musl (according to POSIX.1-2001,
  POSIX.1-2008; PR#7 by Andreas Müller aka. schnitzeltony,
  thanks).


0.5.3  2019-03-11  Pre-LAC2019 release frenzy.

- HiDPI display screen support (Qt >= 5.6).

- Old deprecated Qt4 build support is no more.


0.5.2  2018-07-22  A Summer'18 release.

- AppData/AppStream metadata is now settled under an all
  permisssive license (FSFAP); also updated to be the most
  compliant with latest freedesktop.org specification and
  recommendation.

- Fixed for some g++ >= 8.1.1 warnings and quietness.


0.5.1  2018-05-21  Pre-LAC2018 release frenzy.

- A little hardening on the configure (autoconf) macro side.


0.5.0  2017-12-16  End of Autum'17 release.

- Desktop entry specification file is now finally independent
  from build/configure template chains.

- Updated target path for freedesktop.org's AppStream metainfo
  file (formerly AppData).


0.4.3  2017-04-27  Pre-LAC2017 release frenzy.

- Added new and replaced old system-tray menu icons.

- Make builds reproducible byte for byte, by getting rid of
  the configure build date and time stamps.


0.4.2  2016-11-14  A Fall'16 release.

- Almost complete overhaul on the configure script command
  line options, wrt. installation directories specification,
  eg. --prefix, --bindir, --libdir, --datadir and --mandir.


0.4.1  2016-09-14  End of Summer'16 release.

- Dropped the --enable-qt5 from configure as found redundant
  given that's the build default anyway (suggestion by Guido
  Scholz, while for Qtractor, thanks).


0.4.0  2016-04-05  Spring'16 release frenzy.

- Allegedly fixed for the socketopt(IP_MULTICAST_LOOP) reverse
  semantics on Windows platforms (as suggested by Paul Davis, 
  from Ardour ipMIDI implementation, thanks).

- Added application keywords to freedesktop.org's AppData.


0.3.0  2015-09-21  Summer'15 release frenzy.

- System tray icon now blinks on network send/receive activity.

- Prefer Qt5 over Qt4 by default with configure script.

- Complete rewrite of Qt4 vs. Qt5 configure builds.

- Fixed for some strict tests for Qt4 vs. Qt5 configure builds.


0.2.1  2015-03-23  Pre-LAC2015 pre-season release.

- Reset (to network defaults) button added to options dialog,
  which also gets some layout reform.

- Added application description as freedesktop.org's AppData.

- Previously hard-coded UDP/IP multicast address (225.0.0.37)
  is now an user configurable option.


0.2.0  2014-06-19  Headless finally.

- A man page has beed added (making up Alessio Treglia's work on
  debian, thanks).

- First attempt to allow a headless application run mode, without
  GUI or system-tray icon accessibility, with all options given 
  as command line arguments.

- Allow the build system to include an user specified LDFLAGS.


0.1.3  2013-12-31  A fifth of a Jubilee.

- More preparations for Qt5 configure build.

- Added missing blank spaces on some warning messages text lines.

- Preparations for Qt5 migration.


0.1.2  2012-05-22  JACK-MIDI crashfix release.

- JACK MIDI in-bound buffering was originally flawed and often the
  cause for severe random crashes, mostly due to memory corruption,
  now hopefully fixed.

- Changed order of JACK MIDI and UDP socket initialization, hoping
  the later is always owned by the current genuine process.

- JACK MIDI interface were sinking all incoming events into the
  the first port, now fixed (heads up from Chris Goddard, thanks).

- Make(ing) -jN parallel builds now available for the masses.

- Fixed Makefile.in handling of installation directories to the
  configure script eg. --datadir.

- Main context menu simple no-brainer reordering.


0.1.1  2010-09-24  JACK-MIDI bugfix release.

- Fixed serious JACK-MIDI DoS bug, now working as advertised.

- Minor debug mode JACK-MIDI event print out fix.


0.1.0  2010-09-03  Second public release.

- Attain micro-second precision for JACK MIDI timing, through
  home-brew queue sorting pool =)

- Enabling ALSA MIDI and/or JACK MIDI devices is now optional.

- Transparent JACK MIDI support is being introduced.

- Use standard dialog buttons as provided by QDialogButtonBox.

- Context menu is now also triggered when left-clicking on the
  system tray icon.

- Message box title confidence fix (whatever it be:)


0.0.1  2010-03-07  First public release.