Clementine: Please make new release

[ValdikSS]

The latest version 1.3.1 was released 1.5 years ago. Current git master contains enormous bug fixes, but they are not getting into distro's repositories because they almost always package only released versions. This makes users think that Clementine is buggy and not suitable for every day use, which isn't true.

Please release new version for maintainers to update it in distributive's repositories.

[gomera]

Not only buggy but a dead project. April 2016 was the last release, then you go to the branch release-1.3.2 and the last commit is from July 2016. So I am not saying that it is actually dead or abandoned, but it looks like that.

[ValdikSS]

@gomera, git master is very live, certainly not dead. 198 commits since 1.3.1.

[vikramambrose]

I think governance is lacking in this project. I'd like to see a good chunk of the 1800+ open issues and 37 pull requests closed before a new release. When the community is doing the work for you, at least take it!

[krasi-georgiev]

+1 for a new release

[krasi-georgiev]

bump

[krasi-georgiev]

@hatstand
it seems make rpm and make deb is no longer valid.
I looked at the Makefile and couldn't find any traces for OS specific builds.
Do you know what is the story there and can you maybe help adding those again?

form the wiki
https://github.com/clementine-player/Clementine/wiki/Packaging-Clementine-for-Fedora

[hatstand]

Do whatever the build bot does https://github.com/clementine-player/Buildbot/blob/master/config/master/clementine/builders.py

[krasi-georgiev]

@hatstand rock star , thanks for the pointer
I managed to build it for fedora 27 and attaching the build here. it says 1.3 , but I was too lazy to update the version number, otherwise it is built form source.
fedora27rpm.zip

I also hit this
https://github.com/clementine-player/Clementine/issues/4693

[davidgfnet]

Is there anything blocking this?
I see some activity on the Buildbot repo, which is surprising, I was kind of expecting nobody would be working on that given there's little activity here.
Now I'm offering to collaborate here, @hatstand is there any tasks that need to be done for a new release to be cut? I can help in any of those (rather than just complaining :P)

[gappleto97]

Been more than a month, so I feel pretty comfortable bumping this. There are some important windows patches that need to be included, as I can't play a large portion of my music library except under Linux.

[santigl]

I would also like to see this happen, and can volunteer to help.

[thoni56]

Just make releases, please. No pressure to close issues or PR:s, in fact I recommend against that. Just making releases will start revitalising this project and the fixes will come from that. But with no releases it looks dead and people will start looking elsewhere.

[thoni56]

I was hoping to get back here to point to the developer releases but unfortunately that is not a viable option either. First sifting through developer builds since 2011 is confusing, 2011, really?

And downloading on Windows Firefox turned the file into text, which I presume is because of wonky MIME-types. Chrome managed to download it as an exe, but running it was not possible because of missing libwinpthread-1.dll.

So at least for Windows the developer builds are not even a stop gap.

I'll add another issue to the 1946 about the missing lib...

[gappleto97]

So it's been another four months now. Can we please get a new release? All I want is to be able to play opus on Windows, and I'm 98% sure that patch is in an unreleased build.

[YamashitaRen]

ArchLinux dropped qt4 : https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/commit/trunk?h=packages/clementine&id=32c2cea635a47b53ce38e1a94f56cfd05dd24860
Luckily, they did not wait for a new release and switched to commit 3b76fa62752f25b445ee2a71f02c0c9d7581735a instead.
I hope for the Clementine project that other distributions will do the same instead of dropping the package...

[gomera]

@gappleto97 forget about a formal release, they just don't care and actually don't know why I am still using Clementine. Anyways, here you can get CI builds if you want.
https://builds.clementine-player.org/

[ccoenen]

Thanks for the builds-link, I wasn't aware that existed.

I, too, would prefer less frequent but somewhat "blessed" releases over nightly builds. But it's better than nothing.

[ErebosGR]

@gappleto97 forget about a formal release, they just don't care and actually don't know why I am still using Clementine. Anyways, here you can get CI builds if you want.
https://builds.clementine-player.org/

The most recent nightly build for Windows is from 05-Mar-2019, so not exactly very helpful.
And compiling for Windows is a PITA.

[Venryx]

@ErebosGR The latest Windows developer build at that page (March 5th) doesn't actually even run on Windows. See the issue for it here: https://github.com/clementine-player/Clementine/issues/6270

[ErebosGR]

@ErebosGR The latest Windows developer build at that page (March 5th) doesn't actually even run on Windows. See the issue for it here: #6270

On Windows 7, I installed it on top of the older stable release (v1.3.1) and it works fine.

[Venryx]

@ErebosGR Thanks, I'll try that and see if it works for me on Windows 10.

[therealromster]

I am using a commit for qt5 support. https://crux.nu/gitweb/?p=ports/contrib.git;a=commitdiff;h=df96cb464fcb73c614dec72f44641cd36f5c3cc0

[hatstand]

Developer builds for every platform should be working now: https://builds.clementine-player.org/

[ValdikSS]

https://github.com/clementine-player/Clementine/releases/tag/1.4.0rc1

[matkoniecz]

Is there any way how normal users, can help? Without being maintainers.

Version packaged by Debian (Ubuntu? Lubuntu?) maintainers works well, I would be happy to test version from prerelease PPA or help in some other way.