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: [ read full changelog ]

· Some more work has been put into having brasero work through the nautilus plugin.
· Work has also be done to create a rhythmbox plugin (awaits review in bugzilla).

Other improvement and fixes:

· Fixed translation issues
· HIG fixes
· 557561 – Brasero don't recognize empty disk
· 556449 – Session error : Insufficient space on media when copying an audio CD (same problem with trunk)
· Fix GTK+ includes
· #560525 – Add feedback about performed tasks
· #560539 – Brasero doesn't copy track & album info to audio CD
· #Bug 560153 -brasero crashed with SIGSEGV in brasero_data_project_node_to_uri()
· #559105 – video could use same thumbnails as nautilus
· #558213 – There should be a proper name for color picker button.
· #561590 – Flickering "Project Size Estimation" dialog
· #561050 – Brasero Hangs after trying to add mp3 files in an Audio Project
· #558291 – Crash after New Audio Project and change path into folder /etc
· #559107 – Never resume last used project by default
· #560365 – Image creation breaks when disk is out of space
· #562705 – brasero passes GTK_DISABLE_DEPRECATED and co unconditionally
· #549119 – no space in /tmp given a not informative error
· #561683 – No status whilst copying data DVD to DVD/ISO after 2048MB copied.
· #560913 – preview of large images
· #563989 – brasero crashs on fifo-files
· #564397 – Use g_timeout_add_seconds where possible

Updated translations:

· ro.po: New Romanian translation by Adi Roiban
· da.po: Danish translation by Mads Lundby
· fr.po: Updated French translation by Claude Paroz
· hu.po: Translation updated by Gabor Kelemen
· et.po: Translation updated by Mattias Põldaru
· zh_HK.po: Updated Traditional Chinese translation(Hong Kong) by Chao-Hsiung Liao
· zh_TW.po: Updated Traditional Chinese translation(Taiwan) by Chao-Hsiung Liao
· fi.po: Updated Finnish translation by Ilkka Tuohela
· de.po: Updated German translation by Mario Blättermann
· cs.po: Updated Czech translation by Adrian Gunis
· sv.po: Updated Swedish translation by Daniel Nylander
· pl.po: Updated Polish translation by Tomasz Dominikowski
· es.po: Updated Spanish translation by Jorge Gonzalez
· lt.po: Updated Lithuanian translation by Gintautas Miliauskas
· nb.po: Updated Norwegian bokmål translation by Kjartan Maraas

· And many other bugs that were fixed before they were reported in bugzilla.

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