Alexandria 0.6.4 released
2009-03-14
The 0.6.4 release focuses on maintenance and stability. Many providers of book meta-data have been fixed, GUI responsiveness and feedback have been further improved, and many long-standing stability problems have been fixed. There have been a few hundred downloads of the beta with no major issues, so this release is probably quite stable. You can download a tarball or deb file from RubyForge
Due to an annoying but simple interface bug in 0.6.4, new files for the quick bugfix release 0.6.4.1 are now available.
Notable changes in 0.6.4:
- Better GUI feedback when adding books by ISBN.
- More stable (fixing or working around the "Icon view tooltips" crashes).
- Removes the old, obsolete Amazon (AWS 3.x) provider and replaces it with the new Amazon AWS 4 provider.
- Better handling of character encodings.
- Added sounds to the "Acquire from Scanner" dialog for better feedback
- New Greek, Macedonian, Norwegian (Bokmål) and Slovakian translations and updated translations for Italian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), French and Swedish.
Users of Debian or Ubuntu GNU/Linux variants can download alexandria_0.6.4.1_all.deb and install it with sudo dpkg --install alexandria_0.6.4.1_all.deb
If you have previously installed a version of Alexandria, you should
have most of the dependencies already. You may additionally need
libhpricot-ruby
and
libhtmlentities-ruby
On other systems, you should fetch the source package alexandria-0.6.4.1.tar.gz and build it with rake and sudo rake install
Please report any new issues on the Tracker at RubyForge, or join the alexandria-list mailing list to discuss features and issues with the friendly developers :^)