2019-11-17, 20:50
Update on 3.x Release Timing
I just confirmed that the changes in Estuary needed to support both AS 2.x and 3.x made it into 18.5, and 18.5 was released sometime in the last few days. I'm going to be out of town for a couple of weeks (some personal stuff and then the Thanksgiving holiday in the US), and I don't want to push an update into the beta repo and then be unavailable. It also looks like Matrix is on a pretty aggressive release schedule, and if I'm reading the blog correctly it could be released by the end of this year (note: this is my take on the blog post, not an official stance). Given all that, here's the planned release schedule for AS 3.x.
Week of December 2: Artist Slideshow 3.0.0~beta8 released into my beta repo channel for wider (and final) testing
Week of December 16: AS 3.x pull request sent to main repo. Based on past experience it will be at least a week before it goes live, but it may take longer if there are fixes I need to make to satisfy the build tests. Given that, I may submit earlier if there are no issues reported during the final testing.
That will hopefully get AS released before the end of the year (and in time for Matrix), and AS 3.x will be the only version of AS available for Matrix. If you're on any other version of Kodi and you're skin doesn't support AS 3.x, you can stay on AS 2.x, but AS 2.x will receive no updates or bug fixes moving forward.
I just confirmed that the changes in Estuary needed to support both AS 2.x and 3.x made it into 18.5, and 18.5 was released sometime in the last few days. I'm going to be out of town for a couple of weeks (some personal stuff and then the Thanksgiving holiday in the US), and I don't want to push an update into the beta repo and then be unavailable. It also looks like Matrix is on a pretty aggressive release schedule, and if I'm reading the blog correctly it could be released by the end of this year (note: this is my take on the blog post, not an official stance). Given all that, here's the planned release schedule for AS 3.x.
Week of December 2: Artist Slideshow 3.0.0~beta8 released into my beta repo channel for wider (and final) testing
Week of December 16: AS 3.x pull request sent to main repo. Based on past experience it will be at least a week before it goes live, but it may take longer if there are fixes I need to make to satisfy the build tests. Given that, I may submit earlier if there are no issues reported during the final testing.
That will hopefully get AS released before the end of the year (and in time for Matrix), and AS 3.x will be the only version of AS available for Matrix. If you're on any other version of Kodi and you're skin doesn't support AS 3.x, you can stay on AS 2.x, but AS 2.x will receive no updates or bug fixes moving forward.
