[LAU] [ANN] JACK Rack 1.5.0 released

JACK Rack 1.5.0 is out!

Downloads: https://sourceforge.net/projects/jack-rack/files/jack-rack/
Git repo:  https://sourceforge.net/p/jack-rack/git/ci/master/tree/
Home page: https://jack-rack.sourceforge.net/

It's been 18 years since the last release, but for those of you who
still have a use for a lightweight LADSPA plugin host, here's a version
that'll build with modern compilers (although it still needs GTK+ 2) and
includes several other improvements contributed by users over the last
couple of decades.

If you're maintaining a package of this, note that the dependencies have
changed and the tarball is signed by my newer GPG key.

Changes in this release:

* Update the code so that it can be built with any language standard
  from ANSI C to C23. (The previous release doesn't build with GCC 15,
  which defaults to C23.)
* Fix memory leaks and other minor problems reported by GCC and Clang's
  analysis tools.
* Update the build system to support current autotools.
* Don't try to link against the GNOME 2 libraries, and make the About
  window available without them (patch from James Morris).
* Replace a call to a LASH internal function with a glib equivalent.
* Rework the rack saving/loading code to be more robust against damaged
  files or missing plugins.
* Use zlib for compression in the rack saving/loading code, as libxml2
  often isn't built with compression support these days. If you built
  the previous release of JACK Rack against a recent libxml2, you won't
  have been able to open old compressed rack files; you can now.
* Dependencies: make libxml2 and zlib mandatory,
  use pkg-config to find lrdf like the other libraries, and link with
  libm and libdl (based on patches from James Morris).
* Add support for jack-session (implemented by Torben Holm, plus a fix
  by Peter Nelson).
* Move the repository from CVS to Git.
* Fix bugs in MIDI controls (patch from Peter Nelson).
* Add a Czech translation (patch from Pavel Fric).
* Update the Russian translation (patch from Alexandre Prokoudine).
* Check for an appropriate GTK+ version (reported by Steven
  Chamberlain).

If you encounter any problems, or if you've got any further patches
sitting around that I didn't find when trawling for them, please get in
touch with me.

Thanks!
Adam

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Adam Sampson <[email protected]>                         <http://offog.org/>
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