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- A new PnP system which is managing the informations from HAL, DHCP and other daemons to make the installation of the new devices as easy as possible.
- Plug & Play for internal disk drives and some NAS devices
- Plug and Play for Media Directors (!!)
- USB devices (ZWave, USB UIRT etc.)
- Serial devices
- New configuration wizard created to help in setting up your machine (AVWizard)
- Improved telecom support
- Update asterisk to version 1.2.9.1. This version has corrected a lot of bugs (for more information see ChangeLog-1.2.9.1 [1])
- Update to bristuff-0.3.0
- Update to chan_sccp-20060204 this module is used for interconnecting the cisco phone with asterisk.
- Update to libpri-1.2.3
- Update zaptel to version 1.2.6
- Update APPconference to the newest version
- Correction in create_pluto_dialplan.pl and extensions.conf files to generate the correct dial plan. If the house is in normal mode(not armed) and the user doesn't answer then the call goes to custom voice mail ivr.
- The support for voice mail is fixed. You can browse to all voice mails now. And you got a message in Orbiter when a new voice mail has arrived.
- Fixes into the asterisk scripts.
- Orbiter globaly uses OpenGL for its drawing and can take advantage of new XOrg 7 composite extension (experimental)
- Support for translucent GUI
- UpdateMedia improvements. Major refactoring in UpdateMedia to use SerializeClass to store more info. Fixes issues related to dvd attributes, chapters and coverarts.
- Orbiter improvements:
- Stability
- XRecording to capture events instead of SDL
- Computing feature stable now
- Major Orbiter refactoring
- UI version 2
- Ability to rip disks on external storage devices
- Improved media browser to use precached database data instead of extended attributes.
- DCEGen improvements: nicer generated code.
- A new window manager. We have got more flexibility and better stability using IceWM [2]. The window manager controller wrapper is added/integrated in Orbiter.
- PocketFrog engine improvements
- Designer improvements: the ability to set opengl effects for screen changes, highlight and selection
- Bluetooth_Dongle : more work on stability.
- Switched from xfree86 4.3 to xorg 7.0
- Added openchrome drivers
- Updated kernel to 2.6.16.20, also on the kick start cd. In this way we can support more hardware and the system boots faster.
- Using the new coldpluging mechanism with udev which is more stable and fast.
- Posibility to upgrade a working system using the kick start cd only.
- Posibility to keep your /home partition unmodified when installing over an older version of Pluto
- Updated Xine to 1.1.2
- Improved pluto log rotation
- ZWave support is more reliable, it can use binary switches and multilevel switches. And support for some other type of devices is comming.
- Our GSD (Generic Serial Devices) has some bug fixes related to the supported devices and to the delays between commands. Also it has some improvements to the processing queue.
- Many bug fixes, see our mantis reports.
