Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you - the Neon!

Neon is our shiny new nightly builds service for Amarok. Neon makes it easy to follow development of Amarok by regularly providing packages for you to install.
It is set up to be usable alongside your stable version. Even though we try to keep your data secure, you should be aware that Neon is providing mostly unreleased and untested software, which might as well eat your system. Neon is intended to be used by everyone who wants to help us find bugs, keep track of development, join development or just wants to live on the bleeding edge. It is not intended to be used instead of a stable and full featured Amarok.

We started this service with packages for Amarok 2 for Kubuntu but packages for openSUSE will follow soon and we hope more distributions will join.

To install it on Kubuntu Hardy add the following line to your /etc/apt/sources.list file:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/project-neon/ubuntu hardy main

check for updates, install amarok-nightly and enjoy.

Please be aware that Amarok 2 is still in heavy development and therefore it is very likely that you will encounter bugs, things that are not finished and features that will change before we release Amarok 2.0. We welcome everyone to send patches and help us get Amarok 2 ready soon.

If you want to stay up to date on all things Neon please subscribe to the dedicated mailinglist. Availability of packages for other distributions will be announced there and on the Project Neon wiki page.

When reporting bugs please consider that for now we only accept bug reports for bugs that are not obvious and are easy to reproduce or have a useful backtrace. Of course we like bugs with attached patches the most ;-)

Foto-Copyright 2008 bei Maximilian Fellner, lizenziert unter by-nc-nd 2.0

Wir, das Amarok-Team sind zwar zur Zeit beschäftig Amarok 2 zu entwickeln, aber die Nutzer von Amarok 1.4 sind nicht vergessen: Es gibt eine neue fehlerbereinigte Version der Fast Forward 1.4 Serie. Amazon hat uns darüber informiert, dass es eine Änderungen in ihrem System gab, welche Auswirkungen auf Amarok's Cover-Download-Funktion hat. Wir haben die notwendigen Teile in Amarok angepasst, um sicher zu stellen, dass du auch weiterhin Alben-Covers nach Lust und Laune herunterladen kannst. Weiterhin wurden alle Übersetzungen verbessert und mehrere kleine Fehler wurden behoben. Nach einigen Anlaufschwierigkeiten meinte Jeff Mitchell, einer der Amarok Entwickler, bezüglich des zusätzlichen .1: "Wir sind jetzt sicher, dass wir alle Fehler in 1.4.9 behoben haben" Viel Spaß mit Amarok 1.4.9.1 Fast Forward.

Students, looking for a resume-building, educational, flexible coding opportunity this summer? Consider applying for Amarok's Google Summer of Code. This year Amarok is being guaranteed 5 slots out of KDE's pool - and last year Amarok only had 4 applicants. So if you put together a good proposal and work with us to refine it into a strong proposal there's a very good chance you'll be picked to spend your summer coding for Amarok and earn a $4500 stipend. Read on for details on how to apply and be accepted.