WIP Notes for monthly report

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    <span style="font-size: 20px">&gt; KXStudio Monthly Report (July 2020)</span><br/>
    On <i>2020-07-31</i> by<i> falkTX</i>
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    Hello all, another monthly report about the KXStudio project is here.<br/>
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 carla 2.2-rc1 got released, and wineasio.
 distrho-ports too, but that was mostly for packagers
 with disthro-ports migrated to meson, work started for legacy/new ports.
 legacy with vst/lv2, new with vst2/vst3 and lv2. Keeping the juce fork updated, even though upstream not interested on lv2 at all.

 work being done for automated builds, most of it already complete.
 not that useful for linux, because distros pick up stuff quickly, it is more for win/mac folks for which is much harder to build stuff.
 the automated builds will cover plugins (distrho-ports, dpf-plugins and more), carla and even jack.
 It is not completely ready yet, but very close. expect a few announcements regarding this in the coming weeks.

 I know people have been asking about ardour, will get to that eventually, sorry for the delay.
 Ardour is a different kind of build (I want to repackage the official binary, authors are ok with it),
 so I need to find a nice way of handling it. Previously it was all very manual work, want to avoid that.
 Focus in past few weeks has been on Carla and then the automated build setup, so packaging got pushed aside for now.

 package updates...

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    Anyway, a lot of work is going into Carla,
    <a href="https://github.com/falkTX/Carla/pull/1158" target="_blank">lots of bug-fixes</a>.<br/>
    A good collection of them are piling up, which makes a v2.1.1 release worthy, so expect that in the next few days.
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    One of the new features in Carla is Linux VST3 support, already available if you use <b>carla-git</b>.<br/>
    There is also a category filter in the add-plugin dialog now, and
    <a href="https://kx.studio/tmp/scr_osx_highdpi.png" target="_blank">better handling of high-dpi mode</a>.<br/>
    That is basically it in regards to frontend/GUI changes, everything else is on the backend/audio-host side.<br/>
    All of this will be in Carla v2.2, with a tentative release date of July 15.
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    Other developments happening behind the scenes are a
    <a href="https://github.com/DISTRHO/DISTRHO-Ports/tree/juce6" target="_blank">DISTRHO-Ports</a>
    update
    (setting old JUCE aside and using new
    <a href="https://github.com/DISTRHO/juce/commits/juce6?after=5b18d44c570a061b1c7a074e5d86ac3d1b5d559a+0" target="_blank">juce6</a>
    branch for Linux VST3 plugins), plus
    <a href="https://github.com/DISTRHO/DISTRHO-Ports/pull/50" target="_blank">updating its build system to meson</a>.<br/>
    The <a href="https://github.com/wineasio/wineasio" target="_blank">WineASIO</a>
    project was finally given to me officially, so expect a release soon for that too.<br/>
    There is also a big
    <a href="https://github.com/DISTRHO/DPF/commits/pugl-upstream" target="_blank">DPF rework</a>
    going on, and a new project for
    <a href="https://github.com/DISTRHO/PawPaw" target="_blank">cross-platform LV2 plugin binaries</a>.<br/>
    Those will be announced at a later point in time, once ready.
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    Regarding package updates in the repositories, there have been a few since the last monthly report. Those are:
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 <ul>
    <li>element added</i>
    <li>impro-visor added</i>
    <li>ladish fixed to work on systems without python2</i>
    <li>amsynth updated to 1.10.0</i>
    <li>avldrums.lv2 updated to 0.4.1</i>
    <li>bsequencer updated to 1.4.2</i>
    <li>bshapr updated to 0.9</i>
    <li>bslizr updated to 1.2.6</i>
    <li>carla-git updated</i>
    <li>fluajho updated to 1.5</i>
    <li>geonkick updated to 2.1.1</i>
    <li>lsp-plugins updated to 1.1.22</i>
    <li>mod-host updated to latest git</i>
    <li>patroneo updated to 1.5</i>
    <li>vico updated to 1.1</i>
    <li>x42-plugins updated to 20200411</i>
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    Not so much work got done in regards to the website and documentation.<br/>
    Perhaps for next time.
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    That is all for now, stay safe out there.
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    <span style="font-size: 20px">&gt; Carla 2.2 RC1 is here!</span><br/>
    On <i>2020-07-16</i> by<i> falkTX</i>