Logitech might have something better which they can share, but else we at least have the checklist of different areas that requires testing which are on the wiki: http://wiki.slimdevices.org/index.php/Slim_Server_Specification_(6.5.1) (it's basically just a list of all parts/functions of SlimServer 6.5.1)
Just remember that this is from 6.5.1 so there are more stuff now and we should probably focus testing on areas which are affected by the changes between 7.7.x and 7.8.0 beta: The change log is available here in raw format: https://raw.github.com/Logitech/slimserver/public/7.8/Changelog7.html But translated in more readable format the changes between 7.7.x to 7.8.0 currently are: - New Features: - Re-implement Podcast plugin to support all players. Allow resuming a podcast you partially listened to before. - Modify Internet Radio integration to work independently from mysb.com if needed. - Add new scanner step to discover new/changed/removed standalone artwork for album covers. - A new generic image resizing proxy is now built in to LMS. It can be used instead of the image proxy hosted on mysqueezebox.com, or independently by plugins to eg. resize artwork local to your network (and therefore not reachable by the remote proxy). - The default behaviour on power-on is changed to resume what was playing before power-off. This change will only apply to new players attached to the server; the behaviour for existing players can be changed with Settings / Player / Audio. - Support for Ogg FLAC in the server and Squeezeplay-based players - Added support for setting alarm playlist shuffle mode (thanks hickinbottoms!) - Volume adjustment for Internet Radio (feature request '#2431' (http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2431)) - Allow clients to register artwork resizing specifications to be pre-cached during the media scan. - Add Triode LocalFile 'loc' ProtocolHandler support for squeezelite. - Platform Support: - Perl 5.18 modules for Linux x86_64 systems have been added. - Improved compatibility with latest Perl 5.18 changes. - Bug Fixes: - '#8180' (http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=8180) - Squeezecenter prevents user logout after restart - '#17174' (http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=17174) - Title info doesn't update correctly when multiple SBs are playing same station - '#17634' (http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=17634) - Random art represents an album as cover art, if there is track art available - '#17729' (http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=17729) - On Linux SBS 7.4.1 and above: service cannot be stopped or restarted after an 'internal' restart - '#17758' (http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=17758) - Pop up symbols linger too long on the screen - '#17920' (http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=17920) - TuneIn Radio Options Context Menu - Results returned are unnecessarily limited and frequently 'not available' - '#17933' (http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=17933) - Failure to parse m3u playlists with relative paths - '#17937' (http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=17937) - Now Playing information can alternate between station and current-track titles at track skip - '#17950' (http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=17950) - %w macros (stream seconds duration) returns negative value - Don't submit disc number with album names when scrobbling to last.fm - Other: - Recognise Fedora as being a Red Hat system. - Improve Perl 5.16 compatibility to silence some warnings. - Don't enforce PNG when showing full size artwork, but only when resizing is requested. Converting a large JPG would result in a huge PNG - Don't deal with photo and/or video folders if the UPnP plugin has been disabled. Generally to test you just need to use as many functions in the system as possible and it's a good idea to focus on the areas which have been affected by the above changes. It's not always going to be easy to know exactly what's affected, but if there are enough people willing to do testing and we give it a month or two we will probably cover most of it and can then declare a 7.8.0 official community release. Also remember that we have a lot of bugs in http://bugs.slimdevices.com already so it's unrealistic to expect all bugs we find to be corrected, what we need is to ensure we find critical bugs which must be corrected to make it worth calling it an official release. Hopefully mherger and the other community developers will have some time to look at the most critical ones so we can correct these and then call it an official 7.8.0 community release. I'm not sure if community developers prefer that we report bugs in http://bugs.slimdevices.com or if we should just report them in the "beta" section of the forum. Finally, remember that there isn't any reason to wait, if you are willing to do testing this will help improving the quality of 7.8.0 independent if we release it officially or keep it as beta. All testing by community members will be valuable, even if the bugs aren't corrected it's an improvement to know about then because then someone might be able to provide a patch that corrects it sometime in the future. Just remember that this would be a community effort and not an official Logitech effort, so let's try to keep the discussion climate positive so both testers and community developers find it fun to contribute to the effort. Erland Isaksson ('My homepage' (http://erland.isaksson.info)) (Developer of 'many plugins/applets (both free and commercial)' (http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/User:Erland). If you like to encourage future presence on this forum and/or third party plugin/applet development, 'consider purchasing some plugins' (http://license.isaksson.info)) You may also want to try my Android apps 'Squeeze Display' (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=info.isaksson.squeezedisplay) and 'RSS Photo Show' (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=info.isaksson.rssphotoshow) *Interested in the future of music streaming ? 'ickStream - A world of music at your fingertips' (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?98467-Pre-Announcement-ickStream&p=743516)*. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ erland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3124 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=100759 _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
