cdw -- History of visible changes.
Copyright (C) 2007 - 2012 Kamil Ignacak <acerion@wp.pl>
Copyright (C) 2005, Balazs Varkonyi <vbali@linuxforge.hu>
Modified by Csaba Feher <linuxfan@nrg.hu>
Please send bug reports to acerion@wp.pl
Version 0.7.1 1-04-2012
NEWS:
* new release: 0.7.1, changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.0 are listed below:
* fixing Sourceforge defect #3487958 (cdw was unable to detect
installed wodim and genisoimage if they weren't symlinked as
cdrecord and mkisofs);
* dropdowns, button dialogs and few more places, like log window,
recognize 'q' and 'Q' keys as cancel/escape keys; this change has
been suggested by rogerx;
* when burning second or following session to a disc, cdw now tries
to check which tool has been used to create ISO file system already
existing on a disc, and select the same tool for creating appended
file system; user is warned if cdw can't recognize a tool used to
create ISO file system existing on the disc;
The change should decrease possibility of problems when burning
files to a disc; see this post for related information:
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=4EA08379.7090302%40wp.pl&forum_name=cdw-user
* code handling signals has been improved: more signals are being
handled, and code has been modified to make sure that final debug
message is printed correctly, and that exit() is called properly;
* there has been made small change that should help to resolve
problems with saving data in configuration window or in wizards with
F10 key, when user runs cdw in terminal emulators that use F10 for
their own purposes; see also http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=3424993&group_id=124080&atid=698428
* fixing problem with ejecting drive tray; after a bit of googling
it turned out that this may be caused by the drive being locked;
* fixing usage of meta information fields - they are used
only when they are accessible during task creation, i.e.
preparer/publisher/copyright fields are only used during creation
of standalone ISO9660 file system (because there is this "meta" tab
in ISO9660 wizard), but not during creation of ISO9660 file system
on the fly, because the "meta" tab is currently missing in write
wizard;
* cdw now can recognize "not a known option" error message
printed by xorriso to stderr, and inform user about the fact;
* code implementing new ncurses widgets, used by cdw, has been
extracted into separate files in src/user_interface/widgets/*.[ch].
I hope that someone will find them useful.
* updating COPYING file (nothing harmless, just using corrected
file with new snail mail address of Free Software Foundation and
updated full name of LGPL license);
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Version 0.7.0 13-08-2011
NEWS:
* new release: 0.7.0, changes between 0.7.0 and 0.6.0 are listed below:
* adding support for xorriso (http://libburnia-project.org/wiki/Xorriso):
cdw can employ xorriso to burn files and ISO images to CD-R,
CD-RW, DVD+/-R disc, and to erase CD-RW discs; the support
is limited and imperfect, but it's there;
* adding new compile-time and run-time dependency: libburn from
libburnia project (http://libburnia-project.org);
* adding support for more digest (checksum) tools: sha1sum, sha224sum,
sha256sum, sha384sum, sha512sum; a digest tool can be selected in
Configuration -> Tools page; md5sum was already supported in 0.6.0;
* fixing Sourceforge defect #3111089 ("verification of ISO images fails",
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3111089&group_id=47851&atid=451091);
* fixing Sourceforge defect #3149329 raised by user rogerx ("Using
"dummy" option fails"),
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3149329&group_id=47851&atid=451091;
* fixing small annoyance with tray: it is reloaded less often
during burning/verification (problem raised by user rogerx);
* adding missing -lm library in src/Makefile.am (see Gentoo bug #344315,
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=344315);
* moving configuration file and log file from their original default
locations (in $HOME dir) into their new location (in $HOME/.cdw/
dir); this is related to Sourceforge bug #3168259, "move
the configuration files into a separate directory",
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3168259&group_id=47851&atid=451091;
* responding to feature request #3249439 on SourceForge:
"ncurses header files"
(http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3249439&group_id=47851&atid=451094);
this should ease compilation of cdw on Arch Linux;
* improving recognition of track formats (TAO/DAO/SAO) supported
by disc/drive when burning with cdrecord;
* adding (partial) recognition of capacity of CD/DVD discs;
the capacity is displayed in main window if Configuration ->
Log and misc -> ISO volume size -> Get sizes from disc is selected;
this functionality doesn't work too well when using wodim;
* improving response to Esc key; in previous versions the delay
between pressing Esc key and reaction to the key was considerable;
now it is 50ms by default, and can be changed by command-line
option;
* adding command-line option "--escdelay=X", where X is time in
milliseconds;
* key 'q'/'Q' is now treated by some parts of user interface as
'Esc' key; fingers don't have to move that far anymore :)
* adding "verify data" button in main menu, the button invokes
wizard that configures new functionality of cdw: calculating
digest of arbitrary disc file, or comparing digests of selected
file and first track of optical disc;
* simplifying main window - removing unnecessary double borders;
* adding hiding/showing hidden files in file system browser
widget - user can toggle the hiding using '.' (dot) character;
* adding a wizard dialog for creating stand-alone ISO9660 image files;
* some options related to burning and to ISO9660 file system have
been moved to wizard dialog windows;
* adding option fields for mkisofs and xorriso options, that
allow editing Publisher, System ID, Volume Set ID and (in case of
mkisofs) Preparer, Copyright and Abstract meta data; the data
can be read from ~/.mkisofsrc or ~/.xorrisorc files; the fields
are accessible through ISO9660 stand-alone file wizards only;
they are not available through wizard that prepares "burn
from files" process;
* "Tools" page in Configuration window has been updated: dropdowns
for growisofs, dvd+rw-mediainfo and dvd+rw-format have been
removed: the tools aren't as "controversial" as cdrecord/wodim
and mkisofs/genisoimage are - dropdowns for the two tools have
been left intact; new dropdowns: "Tools for handling CDs"
"Tool for creating stand alone ISO9660 file" have been added;
* cdw now displays progress information during calculating
digest of source ISO file;
Version 0.6.0 24-10-2010
NEWS:
* new release: 0.6.0
* added dependency on libiso9660 library; the library comes from
cdio project (http://www.gnu.org/software/libcdio/), and if
there is a libcdio in your packages repository, there should be
a package for libiso9660 as well. libiso9660 may be a part libcdio
package itself.
* added verification of burning ISO9660 image to DVDs - it is done
in similar fashion as verification of burning ISO9660 image to CD
* added reading DVDs with ISO9660 file system (i.e. for copying
content of their first session to file on hard disc);
* cdw now can detect optical drives available on user's machine;
it's not perfect, but basics are there; user can still enter
and select his own, custom path to a drive; this function uses
functionality of libcdio library;
* fixed sourceforge defect #3088902: the defect resulted in crash
whenever there were no programs for handling DVDs installed,
but user wanted to configure them in Configuration window anyway;
it seems that this defect was introduced in cdw 0.5.0, perhaps
even earlier;
* user is now warned when he attempts to burn image larger than 4GB
with wodim - such operation may fail;
* cdw gives more visual feedback to user about activities performed
by the program: a dialog window informs user about things like
waiting for drive, checking disc in drive, opening and closing
drive tray - all these activities that may take a long time are
now explicitly presented to user. User doesn't have to worry
that cdw doesn't respond without any apparent reason;
* cdw can now correctly recognize if DVD+RW or DVD-RW Restricted
Overwrite is empty or not;
* information about current burning speed is displayed in dialog
window during process of burning;
* until now cdw always attempted, but was never able to correctly
read second and following sessions from a disc, now it doesn't
attempt to do such reading;
* added "Long Joliet names" ("-joliet-long") checkbox in mkisofs
options panel in Configuration window;
* options field for creating bootable CD has been dumbed down:
user has to enter all correct and appropriate options by hand;
reason: I had never tested this functionality myself, so I'm
simplifying it in order to avoid implementing it completely wrong;
* cdw now displays full text of GPL license, but only if it is in
Debian's default location; if cdw can't find the file, it displays
only small dialog box with basic information about licensing;
* added "wrapping" in main menu: when focus is on last position
of the menu and user presses down arrow, focus is moved to first
item; similarly for topmost item;
* fixed some small memory leaks
* other small fixes and improvements;
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Version 0.5.0 17-07-2010
NEWS:
* new release: 0.5.0
* fixed some small memory leaks
* fixed sourceforge defect #2996770: "Problems with F1-F4 keys in
Configuration window"
* fixed sourceforge defect #2998671: "cdw hangs when getting media
information on laptops"
* fixed sourceforge defect #2996758: "cdw can't find any tools"
* fixed sourceforge defect #2999633: "cdw can't create config file
at startup, and exits"
* small fix in process window (window that shows progress of current
task, or informs about type/state of current task): sometimes the
window displays message "press any key", but in previous versions
on some occasions it closed itself without waiting for user's key;
this has been (at least partially) fixed in 0.5.0
* when verifying burned image, cdw checks if optical disc is mounted
or not; in previous versions disc mounted e.g. by auto mounter may
have caused aborting the verification, now cdw asks user to unmount
the disc and then correctly continues verification
* added file picker, a dialog window allowing user to select single
file or directory easily, without a need to type full path in input
field
* improved displaying files with characters in their names that
appear to be corrupted when viewed in some file managers; in
previous versions of cdw such file names might not be displayed
at all
* cdw 0.5.0 now includes few files from gnulib package to avoid
reimplementing "canonicalize" function
* removed separate dialog window for editing cdrecord parameters, it
was available via F3 hotkey; cdrecord parameters can be now edited
only in configuration window;
* removed separate dialog window for editing volume size (target
disc size), it was available via F4 hotkey; this functionality has
been moved to Configuration window (tab "Log and other");
* removed separate dialog window for editing volume label, it was
available via F2 hotkey; volume label can be now edited only in
configuration window;
* added file picker widget: a dialog window that simplifies selecting
single file, e.g. ISO image file for burning. The widget is used in
few panels of configuration window, and is also displayed when user
wants to create new ISO image file or wants to burn ISO image file
to optical disc;
* updated build scripts: created separate Makefile.cdw.am file with
common options; added explicit main build target and "check" build
target; "configure" now accepts "--enable-debug" flag, which controls
whether debug facilities (debug info for gdb, debug messages
printed to stderr) are included in the build or not, and whether
or not additional set of compiler warnings are enabled - this
removes necessity of editing Makefile.cdw.am file to enable or
disable debug build; "distcheck" target of build system now works;
"configure" script makes more checks than in version 0.4.0;
* default burning mode for burning files to empty disc is now "make
single session" instead of "start multisession";
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Version 0.4.0 31-03-2010
NEWS:
* new release: 0.4.0
* when burning files with growisofs, cdw checks which implementation
of mkisofs/genisoimage is selected in Configuration, and passes
this information to growisofs
* there is more feedback to user when some files can't be selected
for burning or for creating image (e.g. when some directories
in selected files can't be visited);
* dialogs where user can enter a string (e.g. path to ISO image files)
now don't accept insecure characters, like '|', '&' or ';'
(sourceforge defect #2965153)
* paths to ISO images with space characters are now correctly handled;
(sourceforge defect #2965149)
* user is warned when creating ISO file system fails because of some
file being larger than 4GB, while ISO level is less than 3;
* cdw can now detect other errors reported by tools, and report these
errors to user;
* there is now partial support for DVD+R DL discs, but user has to
explicitly enable it by passing "--enable-dvd-rp-dl" command line
argument to cdw; cdw can handle DVD+R DL discs only using dvd+rw-tools;
this feature is very incomplete and possibly buggy;
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Version 0.3.95 17-01-2010
NEWS:
* new release: 0.3.95
* tools (cdrecord, mkisofs etc.) are now configured automatically,
unless user checks "Configure tools manually" checkbox in
Configuration panel; this allows user to select tool
implementations (as it was available since 0.3.93), but can also
select which tools "family" (dvd+rw-tools / cdrtools) should be
used for handling DVDs, which is related to next change:
* added *basic* support for burning files and ISO images to DVDs
with cdrecord / wodim: DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD+RW are supported (both
burning files and ISO image); selection of tool family is made in
Configuration -> Tools -> Tools family for handling DVDs; this is
still bit buggy (but not fatally buggy ;))
* fixed sourceforge defects:
- 2890402 ("cdw fails to build, problems with linux/cdrom.h"),
- 2890403 ("problems with burning second session on 32-bit machine"),
- 2890399 ("cdw freezes after writing to disc or creating image"),
- 2545568 ("File > 4GB")
* opened sourceforge defects:
- 2909705 ("Problem with handling symlinks in selected files"
* cdw now can recognize when external tools (growisofs and cdrecord)
report insufficient space on target disc to perform burning;
appropriate dialog messages are displayed to user;
* a dialog message is displayed when user selects file larger than
4GB, since some versions of genisoimage can't handle file this
large without additional arguments;
* I did some very basic testing in i386 machine, if you had any
problems with running cdw on i386 then the situation may have
improved;
* reduced consumption of CPU time during burning files or image to
disc or creating image; this should be more visible on older
machines;
* "Copy data CD" and "Copy audio CD" menu options are now merged
into single "Copy CD" option
* other minor fixes and improvements;
some more vague news and announcements:
* I will fix most urgent problems, test cdw and release new version
0.4.0 soon, perhaps in March 2010;
* there are now some solid foundations for adding support for new
tools (e.g. xorriso) in cdw;
* support for DVD+R DL is almost ready, I need to spend some time
(and money) on testing and improving it
version 0.3.95 was tested with Cdrecord-ProDVD-ProBD-Clone 2.01.01a37,
Wodim 1.1.10, mkisofs 2.01.01a37, genisoimage 1.1.10, growisofs 7.1 on
x86_64 GNU/Linux, Debian 5.0 with 2.6.32 kernel
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Version 0.3.94 27-10-2009
NEWS:
* new release: 0.3.94
* There is only one change. Some time after releasing version 0.3.93 I have noticed that cdw can't handle some special case when using libcdio calls. Because of this issue on some systems user was unable to do anything involving optical disc. Small fix in source tree of cdw 0.3.93 fixes this problem. This is the one and only new change between previous and current version.
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Version 0.3.93 12-08-2009
NEWS:
* new release: 0.3.93
* external tools (cdrecord, mkisofs, growisofs etc.) are no longer a compile time requirement
* there is a basic support for managing external tools in cdw configuration module: user can select one of implementations of given tool if he has more than one available on his machine
* configuration panel was redesigned, division of options among categories is now more reasonable
* DAO option is moved from configuration panel to write wizard, this option (and TAO option) is available only when suitable (e.g. when disc state and type allows this)
* added "Follow symbolic links" option checkbox to mkisofs options panel
* added support for padding options in cdrecord options panel
* cdw now can recognize few more error messages coming from cdrecord, mkisofs and growisofs, and present user with dialog window with some basic information about problem. There are still situations when cdw will silently ignore errors reported by external tools, but now behavior of cdw is at least a bit better than in previous version.
* other minor improvements
* there was a problem with correctness of list of CD writing speeds in write wizard, this is now fixed with new method of getting CD metainformation
* other minor bugfixes
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Version 0.3.92 1-01-2009
NEWS:
* new release: 0.3.92
* improved support of DVD-RW discs: cdw can recognize and handle
properly discs in Sequential and Restricted mode - this includes
reformatting DVD-RW discs
* added verification of md5sum of iso image written to CD
(but not DVD)
* other minor improvements
* minor bugfixes
* information for people building cdw from sources: I added
'check' target in Makefile, so you can now run
'make check' to run some unit tests on few basic functions
implemented and used by cdw
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Version 0.3.91 8-05-2008
NEWS:
* new release: 0.3.91
* added support for dvd+rw-tools, which brings:
* added writing files or ISO image to DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD-RW, DVD+RW
discs; no double-layer media are supported
* added blanking of DVD-RW and DVD+RW
also:
* simplified hardware configuration - now you need to enter no more
than 2 device descriptors :)
* wizard dialog windows
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Version 0.3.3 13-12-2007
NEWS:
* new release: 0.3.3
* gtk-related files are removed, gtk interface is no longer an option
* restored functionality: ripping audio CDs, but only to raw audio
tracks. User have to use following command:
'sox -c 2 -r 44100 -L -2 -s track_name.raw -t wav track_name.wav'
to recode the files to wav audio files.
* restored functionality: copying data CDs to iso image on hdd. This
works only for single-session CDs only for now.
* new dependency: cdw now requires libcdio, a library for accessing
CD device
* dependency on wncurses (ncurses with wide chars support) is now
mentioned in README file
* some changes in main application window layout, so now cdw uses all
lines and columns of console
* updated man page, updated README file
* new autotools files, configure.ac is now used instead of
configure.in; 'bootstrap' file is removed, if you want to regenerate
build files you should use autoreconf(1) now;
* added some comments for translators of UI elements
* removed dependency on external cdda2wav tool, currently cdw provides
a subset of cdda2wav's functionality and don't require the tool
* fixed bug: moving through fields in options forms using TAB key
was impossible - this is now fixed
* fixed bug: too wide fields in second page of options caused cdw to
crash when switching options pages - this is now fixed
* fixed bug: removed one source of memory leak in options module code
* fixed bug: it was impossible to write second and following sessions
to multisession CD disc - it is now fixed
* fixed bug: bug 1841923 from SourceForge bug tracking system is
now fixed (build error with lame-support: 'msg' undeclared)
* fixed bug: space usage indicator (bar) in main application window
works again (now with colors)
* fixed bug: method of blanking is now properly saved when changed
in method selection window (but only if user decides to perform
blanking; until now change of method was saved even if user
abandoned blanking after changing method).
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Version 0.3.2 August 26 2007
NEWS:
* new release: 0.3.2
* changes mainly in options module: some sanity
checks and reorganization of options window
* additionaly small fixes in other files
* new pot file
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Version 0.3.0 April 29 2007
NEWS:
* part of functionality of previous version (0.2.4)
was removed - all that was left was writing to
image and writing to CD
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Version 0.1.5 May 12 2003
NEWS:
* Added new mysql based disk catalog
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Version 0.1.5 Nov 05 2002
NEWS:
* Quality related encoder options added
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Version 0.1.5 Oct 24 2002
NEWS:
* Audio grab function
* Ogg encoder support
* Mp3 encoder support
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Version 0.1.4 Jul 15 2002
NEWS:
* 'F1' shows README
* 'F10' shows GPL
* 'i' shows information about CD (cdrecord -atip)
* 'v' shows and edits volume ID and autoshow before writing
* 'o' shows and edits hidden parameters to cdrecord
(such as '-overburn')
* 'l' shows "Last log" window
* Auto show log window after writing
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Version 0.1.3 Mar 01 2002
NEWS:
* Data CD copy
* CD image copy
* Write CD directly
* Dummy write
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Version 0.1.2 Feb 24 2002
NEWS:
* Added language support. (All in one :-) )
