[ardour-dev] ardour 2.0 beta 5.1 released

[Paul Davis]

We are happy to announce a new beta release of Ardour 2.0 (beta 5.1). 

	http://ardour.org/files/releases/ardour-2.0beta5.1.tar.bz2

This release features a huge number of improvements and fixes since the
last beta. 

The.dmg will be available for OS X ASAP, and will be announced here when
its ready.

This is still beta software, but we believe we are close to the point
where most of the remaining bug fixes are for trivial matters (though
still potentially involving crashes). Please test the new beta, and
report issues to the ardour-dev mailing list and the #ardour IRC
channel. Mantis (the issue tracker) can be used, but we’d prefer at this
time to keep it free of things that are trivial to fix.

!! WARNING !!

Do not use Ardour 2.0 to open the only copy of sessions created with
Ardour 0.99. 

Ardour 2.0 saves the session file in a new format that Ardour 0.99 will
not understand. The simplest way to address this is to make a copy of
the session file itself (e.g mysession/mysession.ardour) and make that
file unreadable using chmod(1).