Brasero is a disc authoring tool for the gnome desktop.

Brasero is yet another application to burn discs for the gnome desktop. Brasero project is designed to be as simple as possible and has some unique features to enable users to create their discs easily and quickly.

Here are some key features of "Brasero":

· Supports multiple backends: cdrtools, growisofs and libburn(optional).

Note: compiling against libburn is _not_enough. You need to activate the backend through GConf editor at "/apps/brasero/config/libburn_burn and /apps/brasero/config/libburn_iso"

Data CD/DVD:

· supports edition of discs contents (remove/move/rename files inside directories)
· can burn data CD/DVD on the fly
· automatic filtering for unwanted files (hidden files, broken/recursive symlinks, files not conforming to joliet standard, ...)
· supports multisession
· supports joliet extension
· can write the image to the hard drive
· can check disc file integrity

Audio CD:

· write CD-TEXT information (automatically found thanks to gstreamer)
· supports the edition of CD-TEXT information
· can burn audio CD on the fly
· can use all audio files handled by Gstreamer local installation (ogg, flac, mp3, ...)
· can search for audio files inside dropped folders
· full edition of silences between tracks

CD/DVD copy:

· can copy a CD/DVD to the hard drive
· can copy CD and DVD on the fly
· supports single-session data DVD
· supports any kind of CD

Others:
· erase CD/DVD
· can save/load projects
· can burn CD/DVD images and cue files
· song, image and video previewer
· device detection thanks to HAL
· file change notification (requires kernel > 2.6.13)
· a customisable GUI (when used with GDL)
· supports Drag and Drop / Cut'n'Paste from nautilus (and others apps)
· can use files on a network as long as the protocol is handled by gnome-vfs
· can search for files thanks to beagle (search is based on keywords or on file type)
· can display a playlist and its contents (note that playlists are automatically searched through beagle)
· all disc IO is done asynchronously to prevent the application from blocking

Requirements:

· a fairly new kernel >= 2.6.13 (because of inotify)
· gnome 2.12.x (gnome-vfs, nautilus-cd-burner, totem, gstreamer)
· beagle >= 0.12
· Hal >= 0.50

What's New in This Release:

New features:
· new video project: drag and drop (a) video(s) and brasero will create a vcd or a video dvd (new requirements, not dependencies, dvdauthor, vcdimager, gst-plugin-bad)
· brasero can be built without libgnome/libgnomeui (there is a switch when building)
· layout can now be vertical or horizontal

Bug fixed:

· #543715 – Burn image not possible
· #543377 – No multisession
· #537871 – Burn speed selection does not work
· #545138 – brasero 0.8 ftbfs on alpha
· #545835 – Add no-c-format to strings in burn-vob.c
· #542718 – Creating large ISO fails due to filesystem restrictions
· #543505 – crash in Brasero svn trunk r1010 when adding a .ogg file to a video project
· #509895 – CD is not ejected after burn
· #542767 – toc file leak when copying 1:1 audio cd with one drive
· #543016 – Crash in the disc copy target selection dialog
· #542836 – Bug in Split menu after removing rest of audio data and trying to add it again
· #542835 – Using Split-Track two times on same audiofile refuses Brasero from burning the data because of oversize
· and some other bug fixes

· New requirements (yet optional) to make video project work: vcdimager, dvdauthor, gst-plugin-bad
· Lots of updated translations (Thanks to all translators).

Thanks to all the people who contributed to this release through patches, translation, advices, artwork, bug reports.