View source for Rivendell 3

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.

* Full support for [https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/ systemd].

* 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 [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].