BEAST/BSE version 0.7.1 and BSE-ALSA version 0.7.1 are
available for download at:
ftp://beast.gtk.org/pub/beast/v0.7/
or
http://beast.gtk
.org/beast-ftp/v0.7/
Amongst other things, this release fixes a security
vulnerability
that was discovered in artswrapper earlier this year,
details:
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-200
6-2916
An upgrade from earlier BEAST versions is highly
recommended.
This is a development version of BEAST/BSE, the BEdevilled
Audio SysTem
and the Bedevilled Sound Engine. BEAST is a powerful music
composition
and modular synthesis application released as free software
under the
GNU GPL and GNU LGPL, that runs under unix. BSE-ALSA is an
ALSA driver
for BSE.
The project is hosted at:
http://beast.gtk.org
The "Bedevilled" portion of the names has no
religious background,
refer to the About page for more details:
http://beast.gtk.org/about
A mailing list is available at:
http://
mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/beast/
GUI skins, example sounds and instrumets for BEAST/BSE as
well as
screenshots can be found at:
http://bea
st.gtk.org/browse-bse-files.html
http://be
ast.gtk.org/screenshots/index.html
The 0.7 development series of Beast focusses on improving
usability and
ease of music production. Feedback is very much appreciated,
please take
the opportunity and provide your comments and questions in
online forums
like the Beast Help Desk, Beast Bugzilla or the mailing
list, all of which
can be reached through http://beast.gtk.org/.
Overview of Changes in BEAST/BSE 0.7.1:
* Fixed SUID security vulnerability by validating success of
seteuid/setreuid,
related security advisories, describing the
vulnerability:
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-200
6-2916 # artswrapper
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-200
6-4447 # X.Org
* Added factor 2 SSE-optimized up/down resampler [Stefan
Westerfeld]
* Added support for varying musical tuning systems:
- 12-TET, 7-TET, 5-TET,
- Diatonic-Scale, Indian-Scale, Pythagorean-Tuning,
- Pentatonic-5-Limit, Pentatonic-Blues, Pentatonic-Gogo,
- Quarter-Comma-Meantone, Silbermann-Sorge,
- Werckmeister-3, Werckmeister-4, Werckmeister-5,
Werckmeister-6,
Kirnberger-3 and Young
[Hanno Behrens, Tim Janik]
* Module changes and additions:
Quantizer - Simulate 1-32 Bit quantization
effects
DavXTalStrings - Added semitone transposition
function [Stefan Westerfeld]
DavOrgan - Added semitone transposition function
[Stefan Westerfeld]
Summation - Added difference channel [Tim Janik,
Stefan Westerfeld]
* Fixed exported symbol set to simplify external plugin
building
* Improved startup time by linking multiple plugins into a
single library
* Fixed LADSPA plugin loading to bind symbols only locally
* Reduced debugging spew for LADSPA plugins
* Fixed WWW browser launching to cope with launcher script
errors
* Improved performance of floating point block operations
* Extended test suite and overall test coverage
* Applied miscellaneous accelerator and cosmetic fixes
* Improved documentation and label strings
* Fixed library dependencies in bse.pc
* Fixed tact numbers in TrackRoll #346916 [Stefan
Westerfeld]
* Fixed all reported beast crashes: #340437 #347319
* Other bug fixes: #364041 #386862 #387364 #336366 #353135
#353442
* Fixes for gcc-3.3 and GNU/kFreeBSD
* Updated Italian translation [Petrecca Michele]
Overview of Changes in BSE-ALSA 0.7.1:
* Fixes to adapt to BEAST-0.7.1
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ciaoTJ
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