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A new ebuild for Squeezebox Server 7.4.2 has now been added to the official Portage tree. It's marked unstable, and depends on a lot of Perl packages marked as unstable, but should be usable with a bit of selective package unmasking.

In related news, 7.5.0 has now been released by Logitech and so I've begun an update of the ebuild to support that - hopefully that'll be an easier task than the production of the 7.4.2 ebuild...

I've just released AutoRescan 1.1 to my plugins repository (http://www.hickinbottom.com/sc-plugins/repo.xml). This is a small change that just updates the compatibility information to mark it as compatible with the newly-released Squeezebox Server 7.5.0.

Just a quick note to say this ebuild update is progressing well and I hope to have it ready soon.

You can track its progress at the following public git repository:
http://github.com/hickinbottoms/squeezecenter-ebuild-for-gentoo/commits/develop-7.4

If you're the adventurous sort you could download that ebuild to a local overlay and try it out.

I have released version 3.5.4 of the LazySearch Music plugin for SlimServer/SqueezeCenter/Squeezebox Server.

This is a new release that provides support for the current 7.5 development release of Squeezebox Server. As the server is still a development release it's possible that future development will break this version of the plugin - if that happens then post a report to the plugins forum page and I'll pick it up and fix it.

As usual you can get it early from my plugin repository (http://www.hickinbottom.com/sc-plugins/repo.xml), or you can wait for it to be updated within the official plugin repository (Logitech usually do that a few days following the release here).

For those of you that manually install their plugins instead, you can download it from here:
http://www.hickinbottom.com/sc-plugins/LazySearch2-7-3.5.4.zip

Just a quick note to say I'm working on a Gentoo ebuild for Squeezebox Server (as SqueezeCenter is named these days). You can see development of that in Gentoo bug#287257 (http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=287257). You can also track my development progress in my Github repository at http://github.com/hickinbottoms/squeezecenter-ebuild-for-gentoo/tree/dev....

I have pushed a beta ebuild for SqueezeCenter 7.3.3 here:
http://github.com/hickinbottoms/squeezecenter-ebuild-for-gentoo/tree/7.3...

This is a beta ebuild for nightly r26709 since 7.3.3 has not yet been released. Keep an eye on the git tree since I might push out an update or two when I've had time to test it. I'll use a different beta tag if I do that.

This has had minimal testing and so if you have any problems let me know. I'll get an official 7.3.3 pushed out to the Portage tree when 7.3.3 has been officially released.

I have released version 3.5.2 of the LazySearch Music plugin for SqueezeCenter.

This is a bug-fix release that provides the ability to create MusicIP mixes from the results of a keyword search. Other than that there should be no change.

As usual you can get it early from my plugin repository (http://www.hickinbottom.com/sc-plugins/repo.xml), or you can wait for it to be updated within the official plugin repository (Logitech usually do that a few days following the release here).

For those of you that manually install their plugins instead, you can download it from here:
http://www.hickinbottom.com/sc-plugins/LazySearch2-7-3.5.2.zip

I have just released version 3.5.1 of the plugin. This is a minor bugfix release that silences a warning from the SqueezeCenter log file when the Server Power Control plugin is not present.

As usual, the updated plugin is available directly through my plugin repository (it should find its way into the official Logitech repository soon):
http://www.hickinbottom.com/sc-plugins/repo.xml

Or directly from here:
http://www.hickinbottom.com/sc-plugins/LazySearch2-7-3.5.1.zip

I have just released version 3.5 of the plugin. This is only a minor update that includes integration with Gordon Harris' Server Power Control plugin - server suspension will be disabled during the period of database lazification.

As usual, the updated plugin is available directly through my plugin repository (it should find its way into the official Logitech repository soon):
http://www.hickinbottom.com/sc-plugins/repo.xml

Or directly from here:
http://www.hickinbottom.com/sc-plugins/LazySearch2-7-3.5.zip

I've greated a public git repository to hold development and release versions of the SqueezeCenter ebuild for Gentoo. I'll push release versions there at the same time that they're submitted for formal inclusion in Portage, but I will also push beta versions that should be stable and will contain changes that will probably appear in future ebuilds. Some ebuilds will appear from time-to-time for nightly releases for SqueezeCenter on the way to support for future released SqueezeCenter versions. Read on for the URLs.