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Major Changes in Rockbox

This is a page which lists many major changes and updates to Rockbox. These are changes that aren't front-page news, but worth noting (e.g. a new plugin, a significant performance improvement or bugfix, or a notable new feature). Feel free to update as necessary!

The latest unreleased changes can be found in the current build.

The changes are sorted by date with the newest on top.

This page is available as an RSS feed: MajorChanges RSS Feed

Indicators:
  • DONE - New feature
  • ALERT! - Bugfix
  • - Enhancement, improvement or optimization

Major changes since version 3.0 (in SVN)

DONE 2008-11-26: Software controlled backlight fading for targets without hardware fading (e200v1, c200v1, X5, Cowon D2 and H300)
2008-11-03: Customisable options in the QuickScreen
2008-10-25: Calendar plugin on all RTC equipped targets
2008-10-08: Configurable mono recording mode
2008-10-07: Support for version 1.1 scrobbler log files
2008-10-03: APE playback optimized
2008-09-21: MP3 playback optimized for dual-core targets

Major changes in version 3.0

DONE 2008-09-05: Initial support for the Onda VX767
2008-08-06: Redesigned recording screen
DONE 2008-07-27: SAP codec
DONE 2008-07-14: Initial support for the Onda VX747
2008-07-14: study mode renamed to "Skip Length"
DONE 2008-07-07: Added keybox plugin.
2008-06-23: Change the progressbar tags, and remove the left margin tag from the WPS, details in CustomWPS
DONE 2008-06-23: Add conditional viewports to the WPS, details in CustomWPS
DONE 2008-06-10: md5sum plugin added.
DONE 2008-05-21: MOD codec support added.
DONE 2008-05-21: Initial support for the Philips GoGear SA9200.
DONE 2008-05-04: Added study mode.
DONE 2008-05-03: Sound on the Gigabeat S.
2008-05-03: QuickScreen converted to viewports and now using the UI font allowing translation.
DONE 2008-04-24: Initial support for the Creative Zen Vision:M
DONE 2008-04-23: Lamp (originally "flashlight") plugin
DONE 2008-03-23: New bitmap strips feature in the WPS - see the description of the %xl and %xd tags in CustomWPS for details.
DONE 2008-03-23: The iAudio M3 is now a supported target.
DONE 2008-03-21: Viewport tag added for WPS, syntax to be found on CustomWPS
DONE 2008-03-18: The Olympus m:robe 100 is now a supported target.
2008-02-23: New default theme: cabbie 2.0.
2008-02-10: Improved power management on PortalPlayer targets (iPods, Sansas, H10, etc...), resulting in increased battery life.
2008-01-04: All new greyscale library with improved performance.
2008-01-03: Improved UI and seeking support for the video player.
DONE 2007-12-09: PictureFlow: A nice animated visualization for album art.
DONE 2007-11-26: Matrix Demo for all non-mono bitmap displays.
2007-11-24: Removed the non-working hardware equalizer for iPod Video. Provide working bass/treble gain and cutoff settings instead.
DONE 2007-11-23: Initial USB Stack for PortalPlayer 502X based devices (iPod 4G, Photo/Color, 5G, 5.5G, Nano, 2G Mini, iRiver H10, Sansa e200, Sansa c200). Does not support file transfer yet, just charging.
DONE 2007-11-19: Proper scroll wheel acceleration for click wheel iPod targets (4G, Photo/Color, 5G, 5.5G, Nano and 2G Mini)
DONE 2007-11-18: New Speex-based voice file format on SWCODEC targets. All non-Archos voice users need to update their voice files and talk clips.
DONE 2007-11-14: Alarm support on H10.
DONE 2007-11-14: New %m WPS tag to set a left margin.
DONE 2007-11-12: Hardware controlled backlight brightness for the iPod Nano and iPod Video.
DONE 2007-11-11: FM tuner support on iriver H10.
DONE 2007-11-11: Rockbox can now display album art!
2007-11-06: MicroSD support on Sansa c200.
2007-11-03: Disk power control on all HDD based iPods (1st ..3rd generation already did that for a while) for increased runtime.
2007-10-25: Metadata-on-Buffer committed; this involves a largely rewritten playback buffering engine.
2007-10-17: Big speed increase in PluginMpegplayer for ColdFire based targets. (Iaudio x5 and m5, Iriver h100 and h300)
ALERT! 2007-10-11: The problems with the Sansa bootloader failing to start the OF should be fixed with the newly released sansapatcher 0.5
2007-09-27: Improved line selector. Colours are now customisable and a gradient is possible.
DONE 2007-09-06: Sound on Sansa c200.
ALERT! 2007-09-05: The notorious LCD bug on newer Sansa e200 models is fixed.
DONE 2007-09-04: The SanDisk Sansa e200R models are now Rockboxed!
2007-08-31: Minor keymap change to allow almost full functionality just using the cross on Gigabeats: The roles of A and Select have been swapped in the WPS.
DONE 2007-08-22: Added support for MicroSDHC cards on Sansa e200.
2007-08-08: Added support for grouping tags.
2007-08-06: Significantly improved battery runtime on PP5002 targets iPod (1st, 2nd and 3rd gen). A rockboxed 2nd gen exceeded the runtime stated by apple in a runtime test.
2007-08-06: Organise the plugins into categories.
DONE 2007-08-06: Make several splashes and confirmation screens speak.
2007-08-05: Voice file changes. Older voices no longer work, now all voice files are target-specific.
DONE 2007-08-03: iPod 3rd gen is now officially a supported target
2007-08-03: Added support for the disc number tag
DONE 2007-08-02: Superdom game
DONE 2007-07-27: Sound on iPod 2nd Gen! (That's the FireWire iPod, not the nano!)
2007-07-25: Jackpot support for bitmap targets
2007-07-10: User configurable recording path
DONE 2007-07-03: WMA codec initial support
2007-06-30: MicroSD card support now works on the Sansa!
DONE 2007-06-30: Reversi game
DONE 2007-06-29: Rocklife plugin
DONE 2007-06-28: Maze game
DONE 2007-06-17: Custom filetype colour feature introduced
2007-06-06: FM Radio now works on the Sansa!
DONE 2007-06-05: Monkey's Audio support
2007-06-05: Recording now works on Sansa.
DONE 2007-05-23: The 80GB Ipod Video is now supported by Rockbox.
DONE 2007-05-19: WAV recording working as a plugin on Archos (Recorder V1, V2, FM and Ondio FM).
2007-04-27: Gigabeat keyboard mapping got changed. Basically A and POWER were switched to prevent accidental shutdowns.
2007-04-21: New bootloader released for Gigabeat F/X - an upgrade to this bootloader (follow the install instructions in the manual) is required to use current Rockbox builds.
DONE 2007-04-16: Icons in the menus and file browser are now customizable.
2007-04-10: New format for WPS RTC tag : it is now split into several tags. Custom WPS files will need to be updated (see the new tags).
2007-04-12: Switch to mi4 format for Rockbox binary on H10 and Sansa. Users with bootloaders older than 20 March 2007 will have to update. Up to date ones are already on download.rockbox.org since that date.
DONE 2007-04-09: WAV file viewer
2007-04-04: WPS tokenizer: Rewritten WPS code. There shouldn't be any apparent change. Please report problems on the support thread.
DONE 2007-03-28: Full unicode support for the Archos Player. Added mappings and glyphs for extended latin, cyrillic, greek and (for new LCD) halfwidth katakana.
2007-03-25: File rebuffering (i.e. support for playing long files) in Mpeg Player.
2007-03-20: rockbox.* file moved inside /.rockbox directory, requiring an update to the latest bootloader.
2007-03-18: Volume control for the Mpeg Player.
DONE 2007-03-11: Sound on the Sansa e200!
DONE 2007-03-04: Rockbox runs and plays music on the iAudio M5!
2007-03-04: Dual processor support added for PortalPlayer (iPods, H10, Sansa) targets, requiring an update to the latest bootloader.
DONE 2007-03-01: Add the Rockbox Menu
DONE 2007-02-26: Add software based bass/treble controls for targets that lack these in hardware.
DONE 2007-02-23: First steps at support for the Sansa e200R models
DONE 2007-02-16: Chopper game
DONE 2007-02-14: Cuesheet support
DONE 2007-02-14: Icons in the menus
DONE 2007-02-14: SPC codec
DONE 2007-02-12: Gigabeat Cradle USB Support
DONE 2007-02-11: New WPS theme : 'Rockboxed'
DONE 2007-02-10: Album Artist and Comment Tag Support
DONE 2007-02-09: Speex Codec Support
2007-02-08: Beginning of the conversion to the new menu system
2007-02-06: Rockboy for the X5, H10, and iPod Nano.
2007-02-04: Ipod, Sansa e200 and iriver h10 can now distinguish a charger from a real USB connection.
DONE 2007-02-03: Backlight and RTC support for Sansa.
DONE 2007-02-01: USB charging for iriver H300.
DONE 2007-01-31: Invadrox, a Space Invaders clone.
DONE 2007-01-25: NSF codec.
2007-01-23: Settings are now saved to /.rockbox/config.cfg and the hidden config sector is not used anymore.
DONE 2007-01-16: BlackJack plugin for all bitmap lcd targets
DONE 2007-01-08: RomBox for iriver H120/140
2007-01-05: Toshiba Gigabeat X and F series get Rockblox
DONE 2007-01-02: Mazezam, a puzzle game for all bitmap lcd targets
DONE 2007-01-01: Initial audio support for Mpeg Player
DONE 2006-12-29: Toshiba Gigabeat X and F series builds added to Daily and CVS Build with Audio
2006-12-20: Bootloaders changed for Ipod, iriver H10 and Sansa e200. Update both bootloader and Rockbox image!
DONE 2006-12-17: Recording on iPod 4G/5G/Nano and H10
2006-12-11: initial version of rbtool (installer tool) is now in cvs
2006-12-08: file extension "m4b" added for AAC files
2006-12-04: auto-detect 2048 bytes block size (ipod 5.5G)
DONE 2006-11-30: file properties in context menu
2006-11-29: Playlists are saved with the extension .m3u8, extension .m3u is now read using the chosen codepage.
2006-11-25: Tagcache renamed to Database - rebuild your database.
DONE 2006-11-24: Recording to AIFF
ALERT! 2006-11-13: Backdrop for greyscale targets
ALERT! 2006-11-11: improved shutdown handling on low battery
2006-11-09: Recording trigger for software codec targets
DONE 2006-11-06: Samplerate and format selection added to recording settings. Encoders can be configured individually on a menu specific to the encoder in the recording menu.
DONE 2006-11-06: Pitch adjustment in semitone steps.
DONE 2006-10-27: Audio dithering option.
2006-10-25: iAudio X5's i2c code enhanced, improving performance and battery run-time
DONE 2006-10-19: last.fm (audioscrobbler) logging support.
DONE 2006-10-12: Some EQ presets got added to the distribution files.
DONE 2006-10-05: FM radio region setting.
ALERT! 2006-09-29: H10 remote support.
DONE 2006-09-26: Auto-pause on Ipod when headphones unplugged.
DONE 2006-09-25: ADX codec.
2006-09-24: AAC decoder optimizations.
2006-09-16: New scheduler. Audio playback is now prioritised over other tasks.
DONE 2006-09-15: ZX spectrum emulator plugin - zxbox.
2006-09-02: Enhanced statusbar in recording screen.
DONE 2006-08-28: Encoder Codec Interface for recording with additional FM recording support.
DONE 2006-08-16: Recording AGC for iriver h100 and h300 series.
2006-08-15: Support for displaying the path in the file browser.
2006-08-12: One button hold for vertical scrolling.
DONE 2006-08-07: Initial version of mpegplayer plugin.
DONE 2006-08-07: Greyscale library on greyscale Ipods.
2006-08-05: Initial support for the EEPROM on h100 series.
ALERT! 2006-07-28: X5 LCD remote support.
ALERT! 2006-07-21: FM radio and recording on the X5.
2006-07-20: HTML version of the manual is now available here.
DONE 2006-07-19: Rockpaint plugin (for color targets).
DONE 2006-07-18: SID codec.
DONE 2006-07-18: Playlist catalog.
2006-05-10: The fonts are no longer included in the cvs / daily build packages. Get the new, separate font package for them here.
2006-04-19: Rockbox is functional and plays audio on the iPod Mini 1G.
2006-04-03: DOOM now running on iPod Color/Photo, Nano and 5G (Video).
2006-03-30: Rockbox is functional and plays audio on the iPod Mini 2G.
2006-03-28: Sound on the iAudio X5 , X5L and X5V
DONE 2006-03-28: DOOM, on iriver H300!
DONE 2006-03-26: Experimental WAV playback plugin for Archos Recorder/Ondio.
DONE 2006-03-26: Initial version of Tag Cache!
2006-03-22: iAudio X5 bootloader.
DONE 2006-03-20: Bubbles, a bubble game.
DONE 2006-03-19: Tetrox, a Tetris clone, for all bitmap targets.
2006-03-17: CPU boosting support for iPod Nano and Video.
DONE 2006-03-12: Xobox, a Xonix/Qix clone, for iPods and iRivers.
DONE 2006-03-11: Pacbox, a pacman arcade machine emulator, for all color LCD models and the H100.
ALERT! 2006-03-08: Charging for iPods.
ALERT! 2006-03-05: Basic battery monitoring for iPods.
DONE 2006-02-26: Grayscale library running on the simulators.
2006-02-26: Foreground/background color selection, on models with color LCDs.
DONE 2006-02-22: "Chessbox" chess game plugin.
2006-02-22: Brickmania now running on Archos Recorder, Ondio, iAudio X5, and iPod 3G.
2006-02-16: iPod 5G LCD speedups; from 28fps to 54fps.
2006-02-13: iPod 5G audio playback!
2006-02-07: Equalizer configuration for software codec platforms.
2006-02-06: The Rockbox manual is available in LaTeX format.
2006-02-02: Backdrop feature, for color LCDs - ability to place backdrop images for Rockbox and the WPS.
DONE 2006-02-01: AIFF codec support added.
DONE 2006-01-28: Color bitmap support in the WPS (for color models).
DONE 2006-01-23: Brickmania game plugin.
ALERT! 2005-12-17: Recording on the H300.
ALERT! 2005-12-15: FM Radio on the H300.
DONE 2005-12-06: Unicode support!
2005-12-05: Three new WPS' - engineeer2, marquee, and DancePuffDuo.
ALERT! 2005-11-17: iRiver remote WPS support. Two new WPS' - iAmp and zezayer.
DONE 2005-11-05: Jewels game plugin - a Bejeweled clone.

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