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Taken from http://gpodder.org/news:

The second gPodder release in this month brings updated translations, lots of bug fixes and some UI clean-ups to your open source podcast aggregator. Here are some highlights of this release:

• “All episodes” in “View” menu and enabled by default
• Episodes are passed to the media player in chronological order
• Try to use mimetype-based file icons (using GIO) for episodes
• Make sure the podcast list is correctly updated all the time
• Disable feed_update_skipping by default (+expose in UI on Maemo)
• Default cover art for podcasts with no cover art
• Re-designed preferences dialog for Maemo 5 (Fremantle)
• gPodder rotates to landscape on Maemo 5 when the keyboard is open
• Better button captions in shownotes window (“Cancel download”)
• Remove podcast.de search option (this was broken for some weeks)
• Hide “Download folder” preferences option (see User Manual)
• Flush gPodder database after MP3 player sync has finished
• Updated translations (Galician, Danish, Russian, Norwegian, Ukrainian, Finnish, Polish and German)
• New translations: Romanian (by Gherhardt Mathisz)

The source package is now available from the downloads page and packages for Ubuntu, Maemo and Windows should be available soon.

Taken from gPodder.org:-

After a productive weekend in Copenhagen with improvements in the UI for portable devices we are ready to surprise you with another fine release of the most enjoyable podcast client so far. Some highlights:

• Download pausing, resuming and better error reporting
• “Paste from clipboard” button in add subscription dialog
• Auto-detect run path (makes –local obsolete)
• Better screen space usage for the Maemo UI (no more tabs)
• Newly supported target: Maemo 5 (Fremantle)
• Newly supported target: Mer (Maemo Reconstructed)
• Newly supported target: Windows (Tested with XP/Vista)
• A HUGE set of bug fixes and performance improvements
• Transition to GtkBuilder means removal of Glade dependency

See the detailed changelog for more information.

Taken from gPodder.org:-

We promised a new release every month, and this month we start out with a fresh bugfix release from the 0.15.x series. 0.15.2 brings lots of bugfixes that have been discovered during the last four weeks and some translation updates for the best (and probably most stable) podcast experience available at the moment

Thanks to all who were involved in this release:

* Anders Kvist (1)
* Bastian Kleineidam (1)
* Fabio Fiorentini (1)
* Gonçalo Cordeiro (1)
* Jim Nygård (1)
* Marco Antonio Villegas Vega (2)
* Paul Rudkin (1)
* Silvio Sisto (1)
* Steven Oxley (1)
* Thomas Perl (15)
* Torbjörn Wassberg (1)

The release contains a ChangeLog that contains detailed info on the changes since the last release. As always, you can also extract that information from the Git repository.

In the meantime, we have been hard at work implementing new features and cleaning up the code for the 0.16.x release series. You can check out the (unstable) code from our Git repository and report any bugs that you encounter, so that we can present you a fine new release in a few weeks.

Grab the new release from the download section or wait until the new package becomes available in your distro. As always, we provide .deb packages for Debian and Ubuntu users.

Since getting an iPod a few years ago I go introduced to audio podcasts and in the last 12 months video podcasts. Under Windows XP I used iTunes to manage my iPod, including podcasts but as iTunes does not exist for Linux I had to search for an alternative.

Many of the Linux music players support podcasts and iPod integration but my experience has been somewhat disappointing, however I stumbled across gPodder, which not only handles audio and video podcasts extremely well it also synchronizes them directly to my iPod! It is still actively being developed (even I have recently contributed with some bug fixes and features!) and I am sure if a stable windows version could be made it would even become popular on that platform too.

gPodder should be available in most Linux distributions, check out the gPodder WiKi for information on how to obtain it for the popular distros and how to build from source. You will also find information on how to join the mailing list where you will meet a friendly bunch of people to share ideas and get help if you should need it.