MythNetTV release 7

This release is smaller than the last one, but has some bug fixes which folk might find handy. New things in this release:

    Better testing:

  • r232: Simple script to create the unit testing database
    New features:

  • r210: Allow users to override the default bittorrent upload rate
  • r212: Provide more sync information when running in verbose mode
  • r216: Add the markunread command
  • r218: Make only one download attempt for a given show per 24 hour period
  • r220: Change download interval to one hour, update last attempt time more frequently
  • r222: Add –oldestfirst and –newestfirst flags, which alter NextDownloads behavior
  • r224: Add flag which forces downloads to run, even if they’ve failed recently
  • r226: Don’t mark a bittorrent download as complete just because the torrent file has been completely downloaded
  • r234: Use reasonable defaults for mysql configuration if no config file can be found
  • r236: Use reasonable defaults for mysql configuration if no config file can be found
  • r238: Use reasonable defaults for mysql configuration if no config file can be found
    Bug fixes:

  • r206: Make the output of “video.py length” more friendly
  • r208: Release man pages as well
  • r214: Fix a bug introduced in r210 which broke bittorrent downloads
  • r228: Fix a typo in the recordings_tool help text
  • r230: Fix a typo in the recordings_tool help text
  • r240: Reduce size of proxy name in the usage table to deal with key length limitations in MySQL
  • r242: The schema for the channel table changed in MythTV 0.21
  • r244: Fix typo
  • r246: Suppress repeated warnings of DB default use
  • r248: Bug fixes for linux.conf.au 2009 talk
  • r250: Include test runner script in release, prepare ChangeLog for release

Please grab your copy here.