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The next major version of Rivendell [v3.x] is currently in ALPHA testing. It includes the following enhancements over Rivendell 2.x:
 
The next major version of Rivendell [v3.x] is currently in ALPHA testing. It includes the following enhancements over Rivendell 2.x:
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* Fully Unicode-complaint, with support for both Basic Multilingual Plane [BMP] and Supplemental characters.
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* Qt Toolkit dependency upgraded from Qt3 to Qt4.
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* Synchronous event notification between instances.
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* High density log play-out (up to 20 per-instance), using 'virtual logs' that do not require an active X Windows server instance.
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* Scalability to hundreds of instances using a single database.
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* Full support for [https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/ systemd].
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* Portable library to simplify creation of WebAPI clients (available for Linux and Windows)
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* Increase in the maximum number of audio cards to 24 per instance.
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* Increase in the maximum number of audio ports to 24 per card.
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== Testing Rivendell 3 ==
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The easiest way to test Rivendell 3 is by means of the [http://static.paravelsystems.com/rivendell-install-rd3/rivendell-install-rhel7.html online installation script], which can be used with a Minimal installation of [https://centos.org/download/ CentOS 7] to create a fully functional installation. RPMs for CentOS 7 are also available at [http://download.paravelsystems.com/CentOS/7rd3beta/], while source code is available at [https://github.com/ElvishArtisan/rivendell/tree/master].

Latest revision as of 00:51, 7 November 2018

The next major version of Rivendell [v3.x] is currently in ALPHA testing. It includes the following enhancements over Rivendell 2.x:

  • Fully Unicode-complaint, with support for both Basic Multilingual Plane [BMP] and Supplemental characters.
  • Qt Toolkit dependency upgraded from Qt3 to Qt4.
  • Synchronous event notification between instances.
  • High density log play-out (up to 20 per-instance), using 'virtual logs' that do not require an active X Windows server instance.
  • Scalability to hundreds of instances using a single database.
  • Portable library to simplify creation of WebAPI clients (available for Linux and Windows)
  • Increase in the maximum number of audio cards to 24 per instance.
  • Increase in the maximum number of audio ports to 24 per card.


Testing Rivendell 3

The easiest way to test Rivendell 3 is by means of the online installation script, which can be used with a Minimal installation of CentOS 7 to create a fully functional installation. RPMs for CentOS 7 are also available at [1], while source code is available at [2].