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+
+ > Carla 2.3 RC1 is here!
+ On 2021-02-16 by falkTX
+
+ Hello again everyone, a somewhat small but important Carla update is here!
+ As there were many changes behind the scenes (specially for Windows builds) I am tagging it as Release Candidate for now.
+
+ So this is the announcement of the first release candidate of Carla version 2.3.
+ Carla is a fully-featured cross-platform audio plugin host, which itself can also run as a plugin (LV2 and VST2).
+ It is a project slowly growing and maturing for over 10 years now!
+
+ This release is the first step for automated releases of Carla, and
+ other
+ PyQt
+ projects.
+ Might not seem like big news, but it is!
+ I don't make Carla releases very often as it tends to consume a lot of time,
+ besides writing the release announcement (like this one), there is a lot of manual building and uploading.
+ The situation got worse with 1 more build type for macOS universal support..
+ This makes it more difficult to do quick bug-fixes than it should, and thus they tend to not happen much.
+ There are still no automated Linux builds yet, I will take care of that at a later point.
+ I always keep the Carla package on the KXStudio repositories up to date, and ArchLinux is usually very quick on the updates too, so for Linux users this is not that big of a deal.
+
+ With that said, let's go through some of this release highlights. +
+ ++ + + + |
+macOS arm64/universal build support+
+ Starting with v2.3, Carla natively supports the new macOS arm64 architecture, used in the new M1 hardware models.
+ As Carla has support for plugin bridges (even across architectures), I took care to make sure that the arm64 version can load x86_64 plugins.
+ Additionally, for something that kept bothering me a lot, Carla will automatically remove plugins from macOS quarentine before loading them. |
+ + + + |
+General improvements to AudioFile plugin+
+ The AudioFile internal plugin received some deserved attention this time around.
+ Both Audio and MIDI file plugins are now exposed as LV2 plugins, allowing to load and use these plugins outside of Carla. |
+ + + + |
+Reworked Windows builds+
+ The infrastructure used to build Windows binaries is now through
+ PawPaw,
+ as done with
+ JACK2
+ already.
+ For users, this means these binaries are more robust and with less dependencies.
+ For developers, a nice side-effect is that we can finally tweak the behaviour of the startup executable, now allowing debug messages to be seen.
+ (though you need to run it in Console/PowerShell for that)
+ Finally, it should be possible to build Carla under msys2 on Windows now. |
+ + + + |
+Use system/desktop theme icons (non-macOS/Windows only)+
+ Due to popular demand, there is now an option in the experimental settings to use system/desktop theme icons.
+ Since I do not mind the default Carla icons (quite like them actually), this is not meant for me. |
+ There are no binary releases for Linux at the moment, and the old Windows 32bit No-SSE builds are gone.
+ On Linux, use the packages from your distribution or ask the package maintainer to update.
+
+ To download Carla binaries or source code, jump on over to the KXStudio downloads section.
+ If you're using the KXStudio repositories, you can simply install "carla-git" (plus "carla-lv2" and "carla-vst" if you're so inclined).
+ Bug reports and feature requests are welcome! Jump on over to the Carla's Github project page for those.
+
+ With finally the Carla release out of the way, I will start work on DPF very soon, as mentioned on the last monthly report.
+ If you appreciate the kind of work I do here, please consider a
+ donation.
+ You can help to keep these projects alive and enthusiasm and motivation high by giving your support.
+ Thank you.
+
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On 2021-01-31 by falkTX
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