<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><div class="gmail-cooked"><p>It’s been a productive 3 weeks since we tagged
the current code as “6.0-pre1”. Roughly 400 or so commits (changes)
later, we’re now marking the current code as “6.0-rc1”, which means:</p>
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<p>no more translatable string changes before release (i.e. no major
user-visible changes). Translators can now finish their work with high
confidence that if they complete a translation, there will be no need to
revisit it before 6.0 is released.</p>
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<p>No substantial changes between now and the release of 6.0</p>
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<p>We welcome bug reports and feature requests on <a href="http://tracker.ardour.org">tracker.ardour.org</a> as always. Nightly builds of the full version continue to be available to subscribers at <a href="http://nightly.ardour.org">nightly.ardour.org</a> (non-subscribers can get the free/demo from there if they wish to try it out).<br></p>
<p>Two notable “newish” features that have landed since pre1 are</p>
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<p>Ardour now supports web interfaces via a websocket and JSON protocol.
Luciano Iam was responsible for this work, and has already added a
couple of demo “web pages” to show browser control of Ardour. We
imagine/hope that this new “control surface” support will expand
significantly during the post-6.0 development process. Start Ardour,
enable websocket surface support, and point your browser at <a href="http://localhost:3818/">http://localhost:3818/</a>
… then get busy with some HTML/CSS/JS. It must be stressed that this
all preliminary work, and is not considered “finished”. However, it is
open for significant contributions by non-C++ developers now.</p>MIDI editing keybindings (shift notes in time and pitch, change
velocities etc. etc.) are now all user-definable rather than hard-coded.
The key editor now provides a handy reference for keyboard shortcuts
when editing MIDI notes.
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