Hi Guys,

I think I fell asleep and didn't post here the changelog or more information.
Chenca has already talked to some of you in some of the threads, but heres goes a "official" release note

Beta5 is up, and it's a middle point for the beta6, actually it was supposed to be beta4, but some problems appeared, to make sure it works for everyone we updated to beta5 already.

So, beta5 still a bug fix release, we are launching it because a lot of serious problems were reported and we wanted to make sure people get those fixes. Also, very important : with beta5 and so on.. you can "backup" canola using the backup application from maemo now

What's not in: Blue theme, Youtube, Last.fm

What's in : Zoom in the photo viewer and a lot of bug fixes

Here goes the changelog :

Beta 5

A bug with media library access was found that broke podcast after refreshing the media library It also wasn't able to play back mp3, due to missing id3 library files (id3.so) in Light Media Scanner plugin packages

Beta 4
Canola ¶

* Podcast: many fixes, removal of leaks, do not hardcode cover path, new Current Downloads and Queueing support.
* Play audio of videos inside podcasts.
* Internet Radio: support URIs that are not feeds but direct streams (.ra, .mp3)
* Settings: fix "locks" in Media Library folder selection interface.
* Settings: new option to keep choose whether the display should be lit or not while charging.
* Fix problem with database not finding your media the first time after selecting it in "Settings > Media Library".
* Reload cover inside the player when it is changed.
* New (and larger) network and battery icons.
* Fix bug in "cover change" when changing Canola theme.
* Parse various feeds using threads, to avoid UI lockup.
* Feeds are now downloaded to ~/.canola/tmp (or what is specified in the 'temp_dir' setting) and deleted afterward.
* Zoom and pan in photos fullscreen view

Atabake ¶

* Fix volume problems when using mplayer as backend.

Python-downloadmanager ¶

* Queuring
* Better API
* Fixed problem with progress

Canolad (daemon) ¶

* Use new LMS plugin for id3 parsing.
* Fix bug when removing items from scanned folders by type (audio/video/photo).

Python-terra ¶

* Escape titles in Main Window.

So this basically means :

Podcast is working better now, but we still not supporting feedburner correctly (coming in next release), people have requested to have a setting about turning the display off you got it. And LMS (the media scanner is finding MUCH more music now) Thanks for the help on this, and I would ask the asian guys to test it agains your library of japanese and chinese songs to see how it goes now, as we are running to support you better guys!

UPDATE: video showing the zoom feature
: http://marceloeduardo.blip.tv/#692953
Thanks in behalf of the team

Marcelo