GNU Solfege Changelog

What's new in GNU Solfege 3.19.1

Nov 29, 2010
  • The 3.19 development branch adds a rhythm editor widget that is used in the new rhythm dictation exercises.
  • It also adds support for the ALSA sequencer, and a nice tool that downloads and compiles the required Python modules if you don't have them installed.

New in GNU Solfege 3.18.5 (Oct 28, 2010)

  • The 3.18 branch adds a profile manager similar to Firefox.
  • The preferences have a GUI to delete statistics, and the statistics page will show the 10 latest tests.
  • Various bugs were fixed, including a really important one to the sound code both on Linux and MS Windows that allows connection of external MIDI keyboards.

New in GNU Solfege 3.18.4 (Oct 13, 2010)

  • Should work with swig 2.0 now. http://bugs.solfege.org/202
  • Fix bug in the preferences window code that let us select accels for the idtone exercises.
  • Updated Danish, Russian, Vietnamese and Chinese translations

New in GNU Solfege 3.18.3 (Oct 11, 2010)

  • Fix import error in the prefernces window. (http://bugs.solfege.org/201)
  • Updated Italian and Vietnamese translations

New in GNU Solfege 3.16.4 (Jul 25, 2010)

  • Updated Estonian, Russian and Italian translations.
  • Don't raise string exceptions.
  • Use gtk.gdk.screen_width() to get the screen size, since the way we did it earlier caused segfaults on some systems.
  • Fix the abstract.Gui.std_buttons_ API so that the New button for interval, idtone and other exercises are insensitive when it should be.

New in GNU Solfege 3.16.0 (Apr 1, 2010)

  • New features:
  • Added 'atonal' transposition mode.
  • More harmonic progressions from Ruslan Fedyarov.
  • Added "Compare melodic intervals" exercise
  • Statistics are now stored in a sqlite database instead of lots and lots of small files.
  • New main window where we select exercises without the menu bar. Gui editor that let us edit this.
  • Support LilyPond 2.12 in addition to 2.10
  • Internally we now refer to lesson files by filename and not lesson_id. So lesson_id should not be added to new lesson files. But don't modify old files if you care about loosing your statistics.
  • News:
  • Require Python 2.5. Module reorg. Enable absolute import in all modules.
  • User generated lesson files have moved from $HOME/lesson-files to $HOME/.solfege/exercises/user/lesson-files. The user manual has doc explaining this change.
  • win32: don't show terminal window when running timidity and friends.

New in GNU Solfege 3.15.8 (Feb 28, 2010)

  • This is a development release made while preparing for the next stable branch.

New in GNU Solfege 3.14.1 (Mar 31, 2009)

  • Updated italian, dutch and turkish translations.

New in GNU Solfege 3.12.1 (Jan 18, 2009)

  • Updates to the translations, fixes two bugs and fixes the upgrade problems from 3.10 to 3.12 on MS Windows.

New in GNU Solfege 3.12.0 (Nov 9, 2008)

  • New stable release. Add Csound and MMA support, new lesson file functions, bug fixes and translations.