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Release Notes for Rockbox 3.15

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Rockbox 3.15 was released on 15 November 2019.


Introduction

The Rockbox project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Rockbox 3.15. This marks our first release since May 2017. Over 2 years have passed since the last release, and in that time we've been busy adding features and fixing bugs to give you the best Rockbox experience yet on the widest range of targets ever.

If you can't wait, hurry up to https://www.rockbox.org/download/ and get the release now! If you're still curious about what has changed, read on for a slightly more detailed summary and list of changes.

Enjoy Rockbox - we enjoy making it.


About Rockbox

Rockbox is a complete replacement for the software that drives your digital audio players. It was written from the ground up to provide a better experience than the existing software, giving you more options and putting you in charge of the player. In most areas, Rockbox far surpasses the manufacturers firmware, truly unleashing the full potential of your hardware. It's written by users, for users.

See WhyRockbox for more details.


What's new?

It's been over 2 years since our last release. During this time, extensive improvements were made to large parts of Rockbox's codebase, totaling half a million lines changed by almost two dozen authors. Some of the more notable new things since version 3.14:

Supported devices

  • The iPod Classic is now stable.
  • Sony NW(Z) Linux devices are now stable.

Core

  • Booting from multiple volumes is now possible.
  • Time formatting now supports right-to-left languages.

Codecs

  • IMX223 devices now have faster decoding.
  • Several Opus decoding bugs have been fixed.

Plugins

  • Plugins now support translations and voice prompts.
  • New ports of Quake, Duke Nukem 3D and Wolfenstein 3D, all running on a new SDL runtime.
  • The remainder of Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection has been enabled. An in-game manual and a screen magnification option have been added.
  • Creative ZEN X-Fi 2 now supports plugins.
  • A new Lua game: Pixel Painter.
  • The Lua backend has received various enhancements.
  • The Boomshine plugin has been rewritten and enhanced.
  • PluginPacbox now runs on Samsung YH-820 and Sansa Clip Zip.

A more complete list is available in the official changelog.

Stable ports

For these players, Rockbox runs well, has a complete manual and is supported by RockboxUtility:

  • Apple: iPod 1g through 6g (Classic), iPod Mini 1g and 2g, iPod Nano 1g and 2g
  • Archos: FM Recorder, Ondio FM, Ondio SP, Player/Studio, Recorder
  • Cowon: iAudio M3 series, iAudio M5 series, iAudio X5 series
  • Creative: Zen Mozaic, Zen X-Fi, Zen X-Fi Style, Zen X-Fi3
  • iriver:x H10 series, H100 series, H300 series
  • MPIO: HD300
  • Olympus: M-Robe 100
  • Packard Bell: Vibe 500
  • Philips: GoGear HDD1630, GoGear HDD6330, GoGear SA9200
  • Samsung: YH-820, YH-920, YH-925
  • Sandisk: Sansa c200, e200, Clip, Clip Zip, Clip+, Fuze, Fuze+
  • Sony: NWZ-E360 series, NWZ-E370 series, NWZ-E380 series
  • Toshiba: Gigabeat F/X series

Rockbox runs on many other players, but is not yet stable enough for a formal release. For a complete list see TargetStatus.

[1]: Automatic bootloader installation on the iPod 6G (Classic) requires at least RockboxUtility v1.4.1, which only supports Windows and 64-bit Linux. macOS and 32-bit Linux users can follow these instructions to install the bootloader manually.
[2]: Rockbox must be installed manually on the e200R by following these instructions.


How to upgrade

Using the RockboxUtility is the easiest way to install Rockbox 3.15. Simply run the installer and follow the on-screen instructions. Make sure you stop/eject/unmount the USB disk before you unplug it. You can also download Rockbox 3.15 from http://www.rockbox.org/download/.

First-time iPod Classic users should make sure they have the latest version of RockboxUtility (1.4.1), or install the bootloader manually using manual installation instructions.

If you need more help, or want to use Bootbox to be able to install Rockbox to flash memory on Archos players, see the Documentation section of this document for information on where to find help for doing this.


Documentation

Rockbox comes with an extensive manual, daily builds of which can be found here or downloaded as an extra via Rockbox Utility. Please read it before asking questions in the support channels. The PDF versions can be searched for keywords making it very easy to find the answer to your query or solution to your problem. As well, the FAQs linked on the left side bar can be very helpful and may explain some behavior you are noticing but not expecting. If you notice any errors in the manual, please report them to the tracker after reading the how-to at FlySprayHowto. If you would like to contribute to the manual, please see the RockboxManual wiki page.

Known bugs

As much as we try to avoid it, some bugs have simply not been worked out yet, and are still present in Rockbox 3.15.

Please have a look at the individual bug reports if you think that some may apply to you, as often a bug can depend on very specific circumstances and many only exist on certain players. You can find the complete list of filed bug reports on FlySpray.


Credits

Rockbox is a collaborative project with many contributors. Thanks to everybody who has helped to make Rockbox what it is:

Björn Stenberg, Linus Nielsen Feltzing, Andy Choi, Andrew Jamieson, Paul Suade, Joachim Schiffer, Daniel Stenberg, Alan Korr, Gary Czvitkovicz, Stuart Martin, Felix Arends, Ulf Ralberg, David Härdeman, Thomas Saeys, Grant Wier, Julien Labruyére, Nicolas Sauzede, Robert Hak, Dave Chapman, Stefan Meyer, Eric Linenberg, Tom Cvitan, Magnus Öman, Jerome Kuptz, Julien Boissinot, Nuutti Kotivuori, Heikki Hannikainen, Hardeep Sidhu, Markus Braun, Justin Heiner, Magnus Holmgren, Bill Napier, George Styles, Mats Lidell, Lee Marlow, Nate Nystrom, Nick Robinson, Chad Lockwood, John Pybus, Uwe Freese, Randy Wood, Gregory Haerr, Philipp Pertermann, Gilles Roux, Mark Hillebrand, Damien Teney, Andreas Zwirtes, Kjell Ericson, Jim Hagani, Ludovic Lange, Mike Holden, Simon Elén, Matthew P. OReilly, Christian Schönberger, Henrik Backe, Craig Sather, José Maria Garcia-Valdecasas Bernal, Stevie Oh, Jörg Hohensohn, Dave Jones, Thomas Paul Diffenbach, Roland Kletzing, Itai Shaked, Keith Hubbard, Benjamin Metzler, Frederic Dang Ngoc, Pierre Delore, Huw Smith, Garrett Derner, Barry McIntosh, Leslie Donaldson, Lee Pilgrim, Zakk Roberts, Francois Boucher, Matthias Wientapper, Brent Coutts, Jens Arnold, Gerald Vanbaren, Christi Scarborough, Steve Cundari, Mat Holton, Jan Gajdos, Antoine Cellerier, Brian King, Jiri Jurecek, Jacob Erlbeck, Jean-Philippe Bernardy, Dave Hooper, Jonas Häggqvist, Thom Johansen, Rinat Zakirov, Manuel Dejonghe, Marcoen Hirschberg, Michiel van der Kolk, Tony Motakis, Andy Young, Alexandre Bourget, Richard S. La Charité III, Christian Gmeiner, Tomas Salfischberger, Miika Pekkarinen, Tapio Karppinen, Richard Ottó O'Brien, Luca Burelli, Alessio Lenzi, David Bryant, Martin Arver, Alexander Spyridakis, Pedro Baltazar Vasconcelos, Ray Lambert, Dave Wiard, Pieter Bos, Konstantin Isakov, Bryan Vandyke, Hristo Kovachev, Sander Sweers, Antonius Hellman, Ryan Jackson, Per Holmäng, Frederic Devernay, José M. Fandiño, Gadi Cohen, Naftali Goldstein, David Dent, Frank Dischner, Liberman Shachar, Stephan Wezel, Alyssa Milburn, Kevin Ferrare, Anton Oleynikov, Mark Arigo, Magnus Westerlund, Jake Owen, Mustapha Senhaji, Adam Boot, Jonathan Gordon, Tat Tang, Toshihiko Itoh, David J. Song, Jeong Taek In, Anders Kagerin, Peter D'Hoye, Ben Basha, Brandon Low, Nathan Hand, Nick Lanham, Sebastian Henriksen, Martin Scarratt, Karl Kurbjun, Tomasz Malesinski, Andrew Pilley, Matt v.d. 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Lorenzo Miori, James Hunt, Artur Juraszek, Wieland Hoffmann, Nathan Korth, Igor Petelin, Cástor Muñoz, Albert Barca, Fukuda Takafumi, Dimitar Dimitrov, Osborne Jacobs, Marty Miller, Eduardo Gonzalez, Enric Morales, Mateusz Renkiewicz, Dario Castellarin, Thiago Kenji Okada, Manuel Flury, Vanja Cvelbar, Richard Quirk, Kirill Stryaponoff, Roman Poltoradnev, Ryan Billing, Dmitry Gamza, Sebastian Leonhardt, Avi Eisenberg, Richard Burke, Franklin Wei, Serhij Kyryljan, Yifu Huang, Jonathan Bettencourt, Ilia Sergachev, Nial Shui, Mihail Zenkov, Thomas Orgis, Семён Жуковский, Kostadin Kolev, Jordi Prenafeta, Tiago Medeiros, Udo Schläpfer, Åka Sikrom, Thomas White, Karl Huber, Adam Sampson, William Wilgus, Igor Skochinsky, Sebastiano Pistore, Stefan Schneider-Kennedy, Johannes Rauh, Constantine Mountantonakis, Ivan Pesic, Jonatan Nyberg, Alessandro Stoppani, Alexander Yurenin, Roman Stolyarov, Solomon Peachy, Igor Poretsky, Adam Rak, Rémi Oudin, Malik Enes Şafak, Roman Levkin-Taymenev, Nathan Follens, Gergely Békési, Stephane Doyon, Alex Wallis, Christian Soffke, Juan Gonzalez, Yangyong Wu, Andy Potter, Stefan Waigand, Guo Zhong Kai, Martin Buck

New Developers

We would especially like to recognize our two newest developers who have gained commit access since our last release:
  • William Wilgus
  • Solomon Peachy

William has been hard at work with significant improvements to the Lua plugin and the addition of multiboot functionality. Among other contributions, Solomon has helped merge the xDuoo X3 and IHIFI 770/770C/800 ports, as well as a multitude of patches from the backlog. Welcome!

In additional to these direct contributors, Rockbox uses code from several other projects. Without these, we couldn't have done it, so we would like to thank the following teams:

The libmad team, The wavpack team, The FFmpeg team, The Ogg Vorbis team, The liba52 team, The Speex team, The libfaad team, The Doom team, The gnuchess team, The gnuboy team, The Pacman Instructional Emulator team, The Spectemu team, The libmpeg2 team, The Game_Music_Emu team, The OpenSPC DSP emulator team, The ALAC decoder team, The UCL team, The iPod Linux team, The Vision-8 Emulator team, The robotfindskitten team, The libmtp team, The asap team, The libpng team, The Pure Data team (Miller Puckette and others), The MikMod team, Michael McTernan (The ARM unwinder author), Albert Song, The New RAW team (Piotr Padkowski and others), The Fabother World team (Fabien Sanglard and others), The sgt-puzzles team (Simon Tatham and others), The Chocolate Duke Nukem 3D team, The Wolfenstein 3D team, The MAME team, The Quake team, The Pocket Quake team (Dan East and others)


CategoryReleaseNotes: Rockbox 3.15 (released 2019-11-15)

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