Griffith 0.12
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* New import plugins:
- Griffith XML
* New movie plugins:
- Clubdevideo
- Hong Kong Movie DataBase (www.hkmdb.com)
- IMDb-it
- Scope (www.scope.dk)
* Updated movie plugins: AniDB, DVDPalace, FileVonA-Z, IMDb, IMDb-de, IMDb-es, KinoDe, WP, Zelluloid
* PDF export plugin updated (shows poster now; font size can be adjusted;
new elements covers, year, runtime, notes and plot; elements can be deselected)
* bug fixes
Griffith 0.11
=============
* Griffith extensions feature added. You can add your own extensions in
~/.griffith/lib/extensions
* New extensions:
- Amazon
- Mark as seen
- Player
- Remover
- MoviePosterDB
* New import plugins:
- All My Movies
- Barret Enterprise Software The Movie Library
- DVD Profiler
- eXtreme Movie Manager
- Fox Movie Manager
- GCstar
- MovieTrack
- MyDVDs
- Personal Video Database
- The Movie Library
- wintoolz Filmdatenbank
* Few posters related fixes (updating, cleaning, etc.)
* FilmAffinity and Amazon movie plugins updated
(Amazon access works only with a separate Amazon Account since 15th August 2009
because Amazon changed access rules significantly. Everyone who wants to use it has
to be registered here: https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/gp/flex/advertising/api/sign-in.html
The Access Key and the Secret Key have to be entered in the configuration of griffith.)
* Reconnect with MySQL servers once an hour (can be configured via pool_recycle
config option)
* Display a popup message during database upgrades
Griffith 0.10
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* Almost unchanged release candidate 1
Griffith 0.10-rc1
=================
* New export plugins: Ant Movie Catalog, GCstar, DVD Profiler XML Export V2 and V3
* New import plugin: Ant Movie Catalog
* Updated movie plugins: IMDb, Allocine, CineMovies, IMDb-de, MovieMeter,
Zelluloid, AniDB
* Few bugs fixed
Griffith 0.10-beta3
===================
* Backup function fixed
* PostgreSQL/MySQL backup support added
* Restoring from backup works with external databases
* New movie plugins: All Media Guide and MovieMete
* Many movie plugins updated
Griffith 0.10-beta2
===================
* Most movie plugins updated
* New fields: barcode, resolution (width and height or PAL, NTSC, VGA, HD 1080, etc.)
* Better results for Amazon poster search
* HTML export plugin exports posters again
* Reload movie plugin each time search is performed (in --debug mode only, this
should ease writing movie plugins)
* Canceling search doesn't throw exception anymore
* --shell command line option added (for advanced users/developers only!)
Griffith 0.10-beta1
===================
* Filter movies using complex search criteria functionality
* Posters stored in database (+local cache)
* New fields: aspect ratio, cameraman and screenplay
* Lots of internal changes
+ Unicode used internally (less problems with encodings, still needs some work)
* Movie plugins updated
* Export plugins are now exporting movies listed in main window only
* Lots of bugs fixed, some speedups
Note to package maintainers:
Please note that Griffith requires Python >=2.5 and SQLAlchemy >=0.5 now
(see `./griffith --check-dep` or `./griffith --show-dep`)
Griffith 0.9.8
==============
* New movie plugin: Amazon
* Updated movie plugins: IMDb, IMDB-de, Kino.de, OFDb, FilmeVonAZ, Zelluloid
* Translation changes:
+ new: Persian, Finnish, Low German
+ updated: bg, fi, pl, rs, fa
* added compatibility with pysqlite2 2.5.0
* bugs fixed: #179618, #258817, #273172, #253272 (see ChangeLog for more)
Griffith 0.9.7.1
================
* Fixed crash when database (rating/year/runtime fields) contains empty data
Griffith 0.9.7 ("Michael Jahn's release" :-)
==============
* Fixed fetching posters from Amazon
* Updated movie plugins: DVDEmpire, Filmtipset, Filmweb, OFDb, Zelluloid
* Update export plugins: HTML, PDF
* Translation changes:
+ new: Latvian, Ukrainian
+ updated: bg, ca, da, de, el, es, fr, it, nb, pt, pt_BR, ru, sv, tr
* Few quick filter combos added (advanced search function not ready yet)
* See ChangeLog for more changes
Griffith 0.9.6
==============
* Distribute local copy of SQLAlchemy 0.3.11 (Griffith 0.10 which will work
with SQLAlchemy 0.4.x is not ready yet)
* Updated movie plugins: AniDb, FilmeVonAZ, Kino.de, OFDb, Stopklatka,
Zelluloid
* Translation changes:
+ new: Estonian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Korean, Occitan (post 1500), Pashto,
Slovak
+ updated: almost all :-)
* Quick filter for volumes
* Added columns genre, seen, runtime and year to the mainlist
* See ChangeLog for more changes
Griffith 0.9.5
==============
* Backup function fixed
* Updated movie plugins: 7arte, IMDB-de, KinoDE
* Several changes on loan e-mail reminder system:
+ Loan E-mail reminder timeout implemented
+ Support for TLS smtp auth handshaking
+ Added smtp server port usage
+ Added gmail smtp server support
* Translation changes:
+ new: Catalan, Norwegian Bokmal
+ updated: Brazilian Portuguese, Cech, Dutch, French, German, Italian,
Polish, Portuguese, Russian
* [Bug #11864] Fixed medium and video codec's default value in add window
Griffith 0.9.4
==============
* Fixed volume/colection loaning problem
* Support for different database names with sqlite
* Updated movie plugins: FDb, OFDb, PTGate, Kino.de, DVD-Palace and IMDB-de
* New movie plugins: FilmTipset
* Translation files synchronized with Rosetta
+ new: Japanese, Russian and Turkish
+ updated: Czech, Spanish, Bulgarian, Greek
* Few bugs fixed
Griffith 0.9.3.1
================
* Problem with saving database preferences in config file fixed
Griffith 0.9.3
==============
* New configuration file format (human readable) - please note that data from
old config file is not used
* Updated movie plugins: Filmweb, WP, FDb, IMDb, 7arte.net, Cineteka, Kino.de,
DVD-Palace, E-Pipoca, Stopklatka
* New movie plugins: FilmDb, Zelluloid, IMDb-de
* New translations:
+ Dutch (thanks to Marcel Dijkstra)
+ Danish (thanks to Joe Dalton)
+ Greek (thanka to Ioannis Koniaris)
+ Simplified Chinese (thanks to kempson)
* Updated translations: German, Spanish, French, Polish and Portuguese
Brazilian (from Rosetta)
* Added new alpha export plugin for iPods
* Added Microsoft SQL support
* Lots of bugs fixed
Griffith 0.9.2
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* Updated movie plugins: IMDB, CSFD, KinoDE, FilmeVonAZ
* New movie plugin: DVDEmpire
* New seen/unseen icons
Griffith 0.9.1
==============
Loan data is now imported correctly from old database.
Broken databases will be fixed automatically, but return date will be set to 2007-01-01.
If you don't like this behaviour, redo the upgrade process by changing
"griffith.db" into "griffith.gri" in griffith.conf file. On Linux you can do
that with this simple command: `sed -ie 's/griffith.db/griffith.gri/' ~/griffith.conf`
Griffith 0.9
============
* Possible memory leak fixed (year data from some movie plugins wasn't parsed
correctly)
* AnimeDB, Filmweb, PTGate and WP movie plugins updated
* CSV import plugin updated
* Fetch from Amazon function recognizes more posters now
* First movie is selected by default now
* Czech translation updated
Griffith 0.9-rc3
================
* Old database is not modified during upgrade process (bug introduced in 0.9-rc2)
* Catch some more bad cases while upgrading database
* Fix upgrading volume / collection loan data
* Updated translations: Italian
Griffith 0.9-rc2
================
* Griffith works now a lot faster with large (>1000 movies) databases
* Fix displaying volume/collection's loan status
* Config files are now fully cross-platform
* New features:
+ limit search results to x movies
+ sort by last added movies
+ hide "Number" column
+ change "seen it" status without opening edit window, new icons added
* Filmweb movie plugin fixed
* Updated translations: Czech, French, German, Portuguese, Portuguese Brazilian,
Swedish
Note to package maintainers:
Please keep pysqlite1.0 as required dependency (see README file)
This will make upgrade process from 0.6.2 a lot easier.
Griffith 0.9~rc1 "Christmas Edition"
====================================
This release is marked as "Release Candidate" due to:
- database format change (if you have any problems send us the
~/.griffith/griffith.gri file or `griffith --debug` output)
- translations are not finished (translators need more time)
* SQLAlchemy transition, i.e.
+ MySQL support added
+ PostgreSQL support added
+ SQLite3 transition on Linux (pysqlite2 is now required)
* Import plugin system added, first import plugin (CSV)
* All movie plugins updated
* New data:
+ video codec
+ audio codec
+ audio channels
+ subtitle format
+ "commentary" language type added
* GUI changes:
+ editing movie details moved to "Add" dialog
+ languages data look changed
+ draggable toolbar
+ new "next" / "previous" buttons
+ windows converted to dialogs
* Selectable search data in movie plugins (search only for data you want to
download or not yet filled data)
* Fetch details from different movie plugins
* Smaller backup zip files generation
* HTML export plugin changes:
+ Fixed problem with posters conversion on Windows
+ New green style in exported HTML tables
* Configurable main list's default sorting criteria
* Lots of bugs fixed (some new added ;-)
Griffith 0.6.2
==============
This release updates some movie plugins. It's last release before
SQLAlchemy transition. See SVN repository for list of new features already
available.
Updates:
* Updated movie plugins: 7arte, AniDB, Cinematografo, Filmweb, IMDb.
* New movie plugins: FilmeVonAZ, MovieKinoDe ((thanks to Michael Jahn), FDb.
* Added italian translation (thanks to Diego Porcelli).
* German translation updated (thanks to Malte Wiemann).
* Some other tiny changes.
Griffith 0.6.1
==============
This is mainly a bug fix release. Some changes:
* Updated spanish, czech and polish language files.
* Updated allocine and CSFD movie plugins.
* Some makefile code cleanup.
* First tag can now be renamed.
* Quick filter rewrited with new fields as well.
* Some language typos fixed.
* Many windows related fixes.
* Windows version is now up-to-date with posix one.
* Initial latex export support
Griffith 0.6
============
Latest Griffith has some new exciting features and dozens of bugs fixed as
well. Also, this version has a reworked user interface and many code
improvements.
Some highlights:
* Unlimited movie languages (lector, dubbing and subtitles).
* Unlimited movie tags.
* A reworked user interface
* A new french movie plugin - Allocine (Thanks to Pierre-Luc Levy).
* Added french translation (Thanks to Pierre-Luc Levy).
* Added spanish translation (thanks to Daniel Ucero).
* Movie numbers are now editable.
* Custom fonts for PDF lists and movie covers.
* Initial console support with multiple arguments for searching operations,
debug and maintenance.
* Dozens of bugs fixed and lots of code optimization. See full changelog for
details.
Griffith 0.5.1
==============
Changes/New features:
* Added posters conversion to HTML export plugin
* Added simple style to table template (HTML export plugin)
* Added a win32 installer custom image.
* Added portuguese, polish, german and czech translations to win32 installer.
* Added Czech translation (Thanks to Blondak )
* Added a new czech movie plugin (CSFD - esko-Slovensk Filmov Databze) - Thanks
to Blondak
* Polish translation updated
Bugs fixed:
* [Bug #5686] Colection/volume remembers selection after adding a movie
* [Bug #5631] wrong language/locale with 0.5
* [Bug #5684] About window doesn't work on windows
* [Bug #5683] Two filters not working at all on windows
* Removed cancel button from confirmation dialogs
* Fixed layer dropdown list entries
* 'Excellent' mispelled in condition dropdown list
Griffith 0.5
============
Changes/New features
* HTML export plugin updated to v3.3
* Updated polish and portuguese translations
* Memory management improvements when using large db collections
* Media names are now stored in database. No frontend interface yet.
* Added support to fetch bigger posters using Amazon Web Services
* Added some HTML export plugin fixes for win32 compatibility
* win32 build should use now the libwimp widget engine for better windows xp
default theme integration
* Now Griffith's dir defaults to localized 'My Documents' dir on win32
environments
* Added preferences defaults to media, layers, condition, color and region
* Updated WP movie plugin (webpage was changed)
* Removing poster images when deleting movie feature added
* Added a 'by collection' quick filter
* Poster viewer events changed to only show full poster when entering/leaving
zoom button
* Moved all movie plugins logos to a new optional package
* Added some tooltips to preferences widgets
* Added some new tools to operate with posters
* Added bulgarian translation (thanks to Luchezar P. Petkov)
* Volumes / Collections feature added
* Added new XML export plugin
* Renamed Export With Templates plugin to HTML export plugin
* DVDZone2 plugin renamed to Mediadis according to new company service and
website. Some enhancement to this plugin implemented.
* Added Tanuki-Anime and Moviefone (America online) movie plugin
* Added experimental support for Microsoft Windows 2000, Millenium and Windows 98
systems
* Some fixes in Makefile (for MacOSX users)
* Small main window changes
* Gery movie plugin removed - webpage is not working
* Merged two patches contributed by Arjen Schwarz, addressing one problem with
email notification that was using an incorrect date/time format and another
fixing some english spell errors found in language file.
* Updated Anime Database and Filmweb movie plugins
* Movie window reorganization
Bugs fixed:
* [Bug #1302] Searching movies with non-english characters gives null results
* [Bug #1312] notes not empty after adding a movie
* [Bug #1314] LANG environment variable no longer required
* [Bug #1315] Added extra warning dialog when deleting directory
* [Bug #1313] Film fields with & or < break the PDF export plugin
* [Bug #5306] Last toolbar button not working as expected
* [Bug #5344] fixed wrong encoding in IMDb movie plugin (thanks to dieterv)
* [Bug #1324] Makefile fix.
Griffith 0.4.2
==============
This is mainly a bug fixing release, addressing some issues found on the
previous one. These are the main changes:
* HTML export plugin now can use custom templates with XML config files. Styles
can have a thumbnail picture preview
* Added manpages to griffith and to griffith-export-template
* Added double click events and a popup menu in maintree view
Bugs fixed:
* [Bug #1260] data for the color, region, condition and layers not being stored
in database; Some spelling mistakes fixed on english language file. (thanks to
Arjen Schwarz)
* [Bug #1261] number disk is 0.
* [Bug #1295] The 'How To Irritate People' bug
* Fixed encoding bug in built in debug method
* Fixed a bug with malformed urls
Read the included Changelog for the complete listing.
Griffith 0.4.1
==============
A bug fix release, addressing some issues found on 0.4:
* Fixed some encoding problems with portuguese movie plugins
* Some minor UI changes
* HTML export plugin update
* [Bug #1258] wrong movie fetching
* [Bug #1253] gtkspell module not found
Griffith 0.4
============
* Loans history implemented
* Better performance for large collections
* New 'E-mail reminder' feature
* HTML export plugin updated
* New fields: seen movie, color, media condition, DVD region and DVD layers
information
* Favorite movie plugin can be defined in the preferences
* New movie plugins added: AniDB (english), OFDb (german) and ClubeMyDVD
(portuguese)
* Added german translation; polish and portuguese translations updated.
* Added picture preview and filter to file choose dialog
* Added a 'Suggest a movie' feature.
* Some minor UI changes.
* Dozens of bugs fixed.
Read the included Changelog for the complete listing.
Griffith 0.3
============
* Three new movie plugins: CineMovie (french), Cinematografo (italian) and
E-pipoca (brasilian)
* Added key events for trivial operations
* Export plugin system implemented
* Added HTML export plugin (contributed by Piotr Ozarowski)
Bugs fixed:
* [Bug #1192] New database not working under windows
* [Bug #1196] Can't delete people on the friends list
* [Bug #1195] Loans not working
* [Bug #1194] Filter drop menu not working
* [Bug #1193] Add new. Cancel not working
* [Bug #1190] Encoding problems with polish when exporting to PDF (and other
languages)
* Problem with some characters not escaped as should be when inserting in db
* Some minor PDF export plugin related fixes
Griffith 0.2
============
* Multilanguage support (UNIX only)
* Polish translation added (thanks to Piotr Ozarowski)
* Portuguese translation added
* True plugin system for web based data sources implemented
* Five new polish plugins added (Filmeweb, Gery, Onet, Stopklatka and WP -
thanks to Piotr Ozarowski)
* One new portuguese plugin added (PTGate)
* Added flag for loaned films
* Two new fields for data holding: notes and film rating
* Film posters can now be replaced by custom ones
* Initial gtkspell support (unix only)
* Export database to CSV file
* Exact search matches are now used without user intervention
* Initial Microsoft Windows support
* Initial Red Carpet package availability
* Dozens of bugs fixed. See source package changelog for details.
Griffith 0.1
============
Initial release
