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Nuvola Player Changelog

  • Release announcements for users are posted to Nuvola News blog and social network channels.
  • Developers, maintainers and packagers are supposed to subscribe to Nuvola Devel mailing list to receive more technical announcements and important information about future development.

4.24.0 - December 30th, 2021

Spotify script 3.7

  • Fix artist and track title parsing.
  • Fix track progress bar integration [GitHub Ticket].
  • Fix integration of volume bar.

Deezer script 3.6

Yandex Music script 1.9

  • Update track.artLocation selector.
  • Update like button selectors.

Other

  • Text in error dialogs is not selectable to let users copy error messages [GitHub ticket].
  • GNOME SDK upgraded to version 41 [GitHub ticket].

Release 4.23.0 - August 1st, 2021

This is a concise changelog. Refer to Nuvola News for a more verbose one and to see some screenshots.

What’s New for Users

  • SoundCloud script 1.7: Fix Google sign-in.

  • Spotify script 3.6: Fix too narrow track list on artist page. [GitHub ticket] Fix playback actions. [GitHub ticket]

  • YouTube Music script 1.6: Fix playback state parsing. [GitHub ticket]

  • Deprecated scripts: Amazon Music and Tidal services are no longer compatible with Nuvola Player.

Release 4.22.0 - May 9th, 2021

This is a concise changelog. Refer to Nuvola News for a more verbose one and to see some screenshots.

What’s New for Users

  • New script: Airsonic (Maintainer: Jiří Janoušek)

  • Deezer script 3.5: Fix Google sign-in. [GitHub ticket]

  • iHeartRADIO 1.1: Fix incompatibility of the old web engine by adding a polyfill for Promise.allSettled. [GitHub ticket] Update metadata parsing.

  • Spotify script 3.5: Fix artist parsing on the artist page. [GitHub ticket] Fix wrong parsing of track length that caused excessive notifications. [GitHub ticket]

  • Apple Music script 1.2: Deprecated until Nuvola Player upgrades its web engine. [GitHub ticket]

Release 4.21.0 - April 11th, 2021

This is a concise changelog. Refer to Nuvola News for a more verbose one and to see some screenshots.

What’s New for Users

  • New script: Anghami. Maintainer: Jiří Janoušek • Source code

  • Official support for Linux Mint, Cinnamon and Mate to test environment-specific integration issues.

  • Spotify script 3.4

  • Tidal script 1.2

  • Amazon Cloud Player script 5.12

  • Audible script 1.1

  • Primephonic script 1.1

  • Qobuz script 1.4

    • Support Qobuz design v5.8.0-b021. [GitHub ticket]
    • Added personalized icon set.
    • Added support for seek.
    • Improve support for stop.

  • Pandora script is deprecated until logging in is fixed. [GitHub ticket]

  • Plex script is deprecated until it becomes compatible again. [GitHub ticket]

  • Bug fixes

    • Fix wrong initial state of Show sidebar toggle [GitHub ticket].
    • Fix Quit action triggered with Media Player Remote Interface [GitHub ticket].

  • All Tiliado accounts from https://tiliado.eu website have been deleted.

Other changes

  • Maintenance updates of various scripts.

  • Add --no-vapi-patch configure option to build script. [GitHub ticket]

Release 4.20.0 - December 28, 2020

This is a concise changelog. Refer to Nuvola News for a more verbose one and to see some screenshots.

What’s New for Users

  • Tiliado accounts no longer supported. If you had activated Nuvola with Tiliado account and the automatic migration failed for any reason, you can always contact support@tiliado.eu to get your license key.
  • *New scripts: Audible and Emby.
  • Bandcamp script 2.4: Fix metadata parsing on the album and track views [GitHub issue].

What’s new for script maintainers

  • The hostname of the user’s machine is exposed as a constant Nuvola.HOSTNAME [GitHub issue].
  • The machine id hash of the user’s machine is exposed as a constant Nuvola.MACHINE_HASH [GitHub issue].
  • Various fixes in the developer documentation.

Under the hood

  • All scripts have been upgraded to the latest version of Standard JavaScript code style [GitHub ticket].
  • Removal of unused JavaScript code.
  • Added debugging of keyboard events (disabled by default) [GitHub issue].

Release 4.19.0 - November 29, 2020

This is a concise changelog. Refer to Nuvola News for a more verbose one and to see some screenshots.

What’s New for Users

  • Two new scripts: iHeartRADIO and Pretzel.

  • Amazon Cloud Player script 5.11: Update integration following Amazon Music redesign [GitHub ticket].

  • Spotify script 3.3: Fix playback actions. [GitHub ticket]

  • YouTube Music script 1.5: New icons created by Doug Hitchcock.

  • Nuvola Apps Runtime renamed back to Nuvola Player following the deprecation of non-media streaming applications. [GitHub ticket].

Under the hood

  • Nuvola upgraded to the latest version of Standard JavaScript code style [GitHub ticket].

  • TLS Socket errors during downloading Nuvola flatpaks were resolved [GitHub ticket].

  • Various fixes to pkg-config files in Diorite and Nuvola [GitHub ticket].

  • Removal of dead code.

  • Clean-up of app-id related code [GitHub ticket].

Release 4.18.0 - October 30, 2020

This is a concise changelog. Refer to Nuvola News for a more verbose one and to see some screenshots.

What’s New for Users

  • New scripts: Apple Music and Gaana.

  • Qobuz script adopted by a new maintainer Romain Berger adjusted to the new design.

  • Pocket Casts script 1.4: Fix integration of play/pause buttons and volume management [GitHub Ticket].

  • Google Play Music is shutting down. The integration script in Nuvola is deprecated and will be eventually removed. [GitHub Ticket]

  • Users with Tilado account migrated to license keys. If you use a Tiliado account to activate Nuvola and haven’t received the e-mail with a license key, please get in touch. [GitHub Ticket].

  • Widevine plugin is mandatory to ensure it is available in case a streaming service needs it for better audio quality. [GitHub Ticket].

  • Nuvola now persists session cookies, which prevents Jamendo from forgetting an already logged-in user [GitHub Ticket].

Under the hood

  • Flatpak manifest refactoring. Flatpak manifests are recipes used to build Flatpak packages and are now publicly available at the tiliado/nuvola-flatpaks repository on GitHub. We also upgraded GNOME SDK to the latest version 3.38 [GitHub ticket].

  • Flatpak manifests are checked with our new flatpak-manifest-update tool each day to keep our dependencies up-to-date. [GitHub Ticket]

  • Compiler warnings are history. Nuvola now builds without compiler warnings except for a few deprecations [GitHub Ticket].

  • Reorganization of git branches. Nuvola and Diorite used to have the master branch for releases and devel branch for development, but the stable release branch is now called release-4.x and branch master is used for development. [GitHub Ticket]

Release 4.17.0 - September 28, 2020

This is a concise changelog. Refer to Nuvola News for a more verbose one and to see some screenshots.

What’s New for Users

  • MusicBrainz Scrobbling: The most popular scrobbling service is Last.fm, which is supported by Nuvola for a long time. There is also a free/open-source alternative Libre.fm, which was reintroduced in Nuvola 4.16. Nuvola 4.17 adds the third service — MusicBrainz [GitHub ticket].

  • New script - Idagio: IDAGIO is a paid streaming service specializing in classical music. The company is based in Berlin, Germany.

  • New script - DI.FM: DI.FM (also known as Digitally Imported) is an Internet radio broadcaster consisting of over 90 channels dedicated exclusively to electronic music.

  • New script - Primephonic: Primephonic is a Dutch-American start-up founded by a team of classical music lovers with the ambition to create a better future for classical music by finally developing a streaming service that gets classical right.

  • Amazon Cloud Player 5.10:

  • Deezer script 3.3:

    • Fix wrong song data when Deezer is switched to Queue view [GitHub issue]
    • Disable broken volume management.
    • Fix the repeat button.
    • Fix the love button in the queue view.

  • Google Play Music script 6.3:

    • Mask as Safari to work around Google sign-in issues. [GitHub issue]

  • Jupiter Broadcasting 1.5:

    • Adjust to the Jupiter Broadcasting site redesign.
    • Add the Friday Stream.
    • Add Jupiter Extras.
    • Add Linux Headlines.

  • Sirius XM script 1.6:

    • Add Canadian variant [GitHub issue].
    • Adjust metadata parsing to recent Sirius XM changes.

  • Spotify script 3.2:

    • Update a web view screenshot.
    • Fix playback actions [GitHub issue].
    • Fix song title and artist retrieval [GitHub pull request].
    • Fix album art retrieval.
    • Fix volume management.

  • Tidal script 1.1:

    • Widevine support for Tidal [GitHub issue]
    • Adjust metadata parsing to recent Tidal changes.

  • YouTube script 2.2:

    • Mask as Safari to work around Google sign-in issues. [GitHub issue]
    • Fix parsing of track title and artist.

  • YouTube Music script 1.4:

    • Mask as Safari to work around Google sign-in issues. [GitHub issue]
    • Fix Logout action [GitHub issue].
    • Fix play/pause buttons [GitHub issue].
    • Remove broken code to skip ads. Purchasing YouTube Music Premium is a better option.
    • Skip metadata parsing when an ad is playing.

  • Installation Instructions Updated

  • Non-media-streaming apps are deprecated. Non-streaming web apps are deprecated and won’t be available in the upcoming Nuvola 5.

  • Qobuz service needs a new maintainer. The original maintainer lost interest in Qobuz. We are looking for a maintainer residing in the countries where Qobuz is available because we couldn’t overcome very strict geographic checks [GitHub issue]:

  • Other changes:

What’s New for Script Maintainers

  • We now accept media streaming apps only. Other apps (e.g. Google Calendar and Google Keep) are deprecated [GitHub issue].
  • Circle CI jobs are robust against network failure [GitHub issue].
  • Nuvola flatpaks were upgraded to 3.36 [GitHub issue].
  • Nuvola flatpaks were upgraded to use Vala 0.48 [GitHub issue].

Release 4.16.0 - February 24th, 2019

This is a concise changelog. Refer to Nuvola News for a more verbose one and to see some screenshots.

What’s New for Users

  • Libre.fm Scrobbling Reintroduced: Libre.fm is a free/open-source alternative to Last.fm scrobbling service. Libre.fm which was supported by Nuvola 2 until it broke and was not included in Nuvola 3 for that reason. It was now fixed and reintroduced [GitHub ticket].

  • New Adwaita Theme: The GNOME Runtime used by Nuvola updated GTK+ to version 3.24.5, which comes with new Adwaita theme: GTK+ Development Blog — Theme changes in GTK 3, GTK+ Development Blog — Theme changes, revisited.

  • New streaming service: Ivoox (maintained by Jiří Janoušek)

  • Deezer 3.2: The play/pause action in Deezer Podcasts was fixed. [GitHub ticket]

  • Pocket Casts 1.3: Adjusted to the switch of the stable web player interface: The beta version of the new player interface, previously used only for playbeta.pocketcasts.com, has become the new stable interface for play.pocketcasts.com. [GitHub ticket]

  • Amazon Cloud Player 5.9: Widevine is used instead of the Flash plugin. This also fixes the warning “Chrome version soon not supported anymore”. [GitHub ticket 1, ticket 2]

  • Jupiter Broadcasting 1.4: Add chooselinux.show site support. Fix volume controls for non-YouTube media.

  • Crash when opening Preferences was fixed[GitHub ticket].

  • Chromium updated to 71.0.3578.80 and then to 73.0.3683.27.

  • The quest to improve the quality of Nuvola & Diorite codebase continues.

What’s New for Script Maintainers

There are no changes that should concern script maintainers.

What’s New for Packagers

  • **New script: **Ivoox (source code).
  • Updated scripts: Deezer 3.2 (Source code), Pocket Casts 1.3 (Source code), Amazon Cloud Player 5.9 (Source code), Jupiter Broadcasting 1.4 (Source code).
  • Nuvola, Diorite: Vala 0.44.x is recommended as it fixes some memory leaks.
  • Diorite: Valadoc is now run with --fatal-warnings. This requires Vala 0.44.x but can be disabled with ./waf configure — no-strict.
  • Diorite: Fixed bug — Don’t pass null to VariantUtils.to_strv [GitHub ticket]
  • Diorite: Refactoring continues, test cases and documentation are improved. Asynchronous tests were fixed. Various C warnings were fixed and marked as fatal to be caught in the future. Several classes/methods were dropped or renamed, see changelog for details.

Release 4.15.0 - December 28th, 2018

This is a concise changelog. Refer to Nuvola News for a more verbose one and to see some screenshots.

What’s New for Users

  • New streaming service: Jamendo (maintained by Jiří Janoušek).

  • Nuvola team now officially supports OpenSUSE Leap 15.0 and Tumbleweed.

  • Client-side decorations are now default. During testing Nuvola with KDE Plasma desktop environment, I noticed thick white borders around the Nuvola main window, which are quite ugly [GitHub ticket]. Client-side window decorations don’t suffer from this theming inconsistency issues and are now used by default for that reason. However, you can still change window decorations or theme in Appearance preferences.

  • NPR One release 1.2: The filter of external addresses, which are opened in the user’s default web browser, was adjusted to allow NPR One login pages inside Nuvola [GitHub ticket]. Thanks to Evan D for reporting the issue.

  • A broken detection of the presence of Nvidia GL drivers was fixed [GitHub ticket]. Thanks to Artem Hluvchynskyi for reporting this issue.

  • A memory corruption, which was silent unless special run-time memory checks of GNU C library were enabled, was fixed [GitHub ticket]. Thanks to Frederic Crozat for reporting the issue. The memory checks are now enabled during the development of Nuvola to avoid similar bugs in future [GitHub ticket].

  • The filter of external addresses was adjusted to allow Google Sign-In pages used by Jamendo.

  • Various memory leaks and invalid memory access issues were fixed in an ongoing effort to improve the quality of Nuvola & Diorite codebase. More details are provided in the Under the hood section below.

What’s New for Script Maintainers

  • Nuvola SDK commands new-projectand convert-projectnew-project, update modification time of files with zero modification time, which were typically copied from within Nuvola ADK [GitHub ticket]. They might pose problems to some software, e.g. Unison file synchronizer.

  • Nuvola SDK command check-project detects files with zero modification times. [GitHub ticket]

What’s New for Packagers

  • New release: NPR One 1.2 [Source code]: The filter of external addresses was adjusted to allow NPR One login pages. [GitHub ticket]
  • New script: Jamendo [Source code].
  • Diorite & Nuvola Runtime: New dependency: gee-0.8 >= 0.20.1.
  • Diorite & Nuvola Runtime: Build errors with Valac 0.43.x were addressed.
  • Diorite: The code style checker Valalint is run by default unless--no-vala-lint is passed.
  • Diorite & Nuvola Runtime: A few memory leaks and memory corruption issues were fixed.

Under the hood

The effort to improve documentation, unit tests and the quality of Diorite & Nuvola Runtime codebase continues. See the full release announcement for details.

Release 4.14.0 - November 11th, 2018

This is a concise changelog. Refer to Nuvola News for a more verbose one and to see some screenshots.

What’s New for Users

Other changes

  • Application entries of individual Nuvola apps in GNOME software and other software centers using AppStream metadata now contain their own screenshot. Previously, the screenshot of Deezer was used for all apps which might have been confusing. [GitHub ticket]

  • The Start-up dialog was tweaked to achieve more straightforward flow. For example, if you have just upgraded, Nuvola shows an info bar “You have upgraded to Nuvola X.Y.Z.” with a link “What’s New?” and a “Continue” button. Previously, users needed to click the close button of the window to continue, which might not have been clear.

  • Nuvola now links to Tiliado Privacy Policy. The short version is: We collect only the data we need to provide you with our services. We don’t sell your personal information. If you have any questions, feedback or a data removal request, don’t hesitate to contact support: support@tiliado.eu

What’s New for Script Maintainers

  • Nuvola CDK and ADK no longer ship LxTerminal. It depends on GTK+ 2 which isn’t included in GNOME Platform 3.30.
  • Chromium engine was updated from 68.0.3440.75 to 70.0.3538.77. [GitHub ticket]
  • Nuvola ADK: The Standard JavaScript style checker was upgraded from 10.0.3 to 12.0.1, which introduced a few new rules and made some of the already present rules more strict. Please consult the changelog to find out whether you need to fix your scripts. Don’t forget that you can run standard --fix to fix some style violations automatically. [GitHub ticket]
  • The URL https://www.facebook.com/login* pattern was white-listed in the filter of external addresses. It is used by MentorFM, for example.

What’s New for Third-Party Packagers

Under the Hood

Nuvola codebase is quite old and it bugs me that it doesn’t reflect all my knowledge and experience I have gained over the past few years. Now, I have finally enough time to change that, so Diorite library, the utility and widget library for Nuvola Runtime, undergoes a significant refactoring.

Continuous Integration of Diorite and Nuvola was improved: The code style of Diorite and Nuvola is checked with Vala Linter (Vala code) and StandardJS linter (JavaScript code).

Release 4.13.0 - October 14th, 2018

What’s New for Users

Nuvola 4.13 gathers all goodies that were continuously released to the genuine flatpak builds of Nuvola since July 21st, 2018. If you read Nuvola News blog regularly, chances are that you are already aware of most of the changes described below. Also, Nuvola News articles, unlike this changelog, contain screenshots to better illustrate the changes.

  • Spotify: Widevine Plugin Update Required. Nuvola 4.12.20 was updated to use Chromium 68.0.3440.75 (a bit delayed by another issue) to solve the incompatibility of Widevine plugin. Users who use any of the older versions of the Widevine plugin will be asked to update it to achieve maximal compatibility. If you encounter any issues, please don’t hesitate to report them. [GitHub ticket]

  • Some Apps Use Dark Theme by Default. Nuvola 4.11.60 brought back the option to use a dark theme variant. Nuvola 4.12.20 goes further and enables the dark theme by default for 9 scripts whose user interface is rather dark. Other apps use a light variant by default if the theme provides it. As always, you can change these default settings in the preferences.

  • Tweaked Scrollbars. After the dark theme option was reintroduced, the default ugly Chromium scrollbars became the last noisy element ruining the otherwise pleasant visual experience. Nuvola 4.12.20 tackles that with new dark scrollbars (enabled by default for the 9 dark apps). Other apps use new light scrollbars. As always, you can change these default settings in the preferences.

  • About Dialog with Tips Shown on Start-Up. Nuvola performs start-up checks to make sure all dependencies are satisfied. It used to show a simple start-up to present the progress, bit it now shows a set of useful tips instead: how to add an app to favorites or pin to a dock for faster access; how to open Preferences and a help corresponding to individual features; how to report a bug, suggest a feature or ask a question. When all start-up checks are finished, the dialog usually closes automatically. You can show the tips anytime later, just click the Menu button, then About.

  • New Documentation Written from Scratch. Nuvola has finally received new documentation. I’ve been writing it from scratch for a while and hope it will be more useful than the old one. You can now open help pages of individual features with a single click from the recently redesigned preferences dialog.

  • Two Clicks to Report Bug and New Issue Templates. Nuvola now provides extra menu actions to report bugs, ask questions or suggest features more easily. The actions point directly to the new issue templates on GitHub.

  • Repeat & Shuffle States. Web app integration scripts can now export repeat and shuffle states. You can change them from Media Player Indicator applet or a tray icon, for example.

  • Flash Plugin Update. Good news is that BBC iPlayer 1.5.7 has recently joined the no-Flash party, which makes Amazon Cloud Player the last script which needs Flash plugin for audio playback. While the long-term goal is to get rid of the Flash plugin entirely, Nuvola comes with a small security improvement: If you use Amazon Cloud Player, Nuvola will ask you to confirm the upgrade of Flash plugin every time a new release is available. Nuvola will then download and install the new version for you. (This applies only to builds with Chromium Embedded Framework.)

  • New Releases of Scripts. Amazon Cloud Player 5.8, BBC iPlayer 1.6, Deezer 3.1, Google Play Music 6.2, Jango 2.5, Jupiter Broadcasting 1.3, KEXP 1.4, Mixcloud 4.2, ownCloud Music 1.4, Plex 1.5, Pocket Casts 1.2, Qobuz 1.2, SoundCloud 1.5, Spotify 3.1, Yandex Music 1.7, YouTube 2.1 and YouTube Music 1.3. See individual changelogs for details.

Other changes since release 4.12.0:

  • Individual Nuvola apps check whether the installed Nuvola Apps Service does have the same version to prevent compatibility issues. (Nuvola Apps Service is an optional background service that provides individual Nuvola apps with globally shared resources such as global configuration storage, global keyboard shortcuts, an HTTP remote control server, and a command-line controller.)
  • Some labels in Preferences dialog were tweaked.
  • The list of Patrons was replaced with a static widget instead of a web page.
  • The Welcome screen was removed, the About dialog with tips is shown instead.
  • Nuvola no longer warns if a matching GTK+ theme for Flatpak is not installed. One of the start-up tips guides users to open Preferences, and the Appearance tweaks are the very first item there.
  • The permissions of Flatpak builds were tweaked to require specific DBus services instead of the unrestricted access to session/system DBus. [GitHub ticket]
  • Nuvola no longer allows a user to set multimedia keys as in-app/global keybinding because it clashes with the system handling of these keys, especially in GNOME. Instead, take a look at Multimedia keys feature which is designed to avoid the conflicts. [GitHub ticket]
  • Memory leaks with Vala 0.42 were fixed.
  • Various minor bug fixes, performance improvements, and clean-up of the codebase.

What’s New for Script Maintainers

What’s New for Third-Party Packagers

  • Several scripts now require Nuvola 4.13. See individual changelogs for details.
  • Diorite & Nuvola now require Valac 0.42 because it contains fixes for GLib.Variant reference counting bugs and Diorite & Nuvola removed workarounds for these issues. If you decide to use older Valac, you can expect crashes because of invalid memory access. We recommend building the correct Vala version from source prior to building Diorite/Nuvola. Note that Vala is only a build-time dependency, you don’t need to include it in the resulting package.
  • Diorite and Nuvola: Dependencies were increased: glib-2.0 >= 2.56.1, gtk+-3.0 >= 3.22.30.
  • Diorite: GIR is no longer built by default. Use --gir configure flag to build it.
  • Diorite: All deprecation warnings were resolved. [GitHub ticket]
  • Diorite: Diorite is now built with fatal warnings but you can pass --no-strict to disable that.

Release 4.12.0 - July 21st, 2018

What’s New for Users

Nuvola 4.12 gathers all goodies that were continuously released to the genuine flatpak builds of Nuvola since May 8th, 2018. There were too many changes to list them here again, so I’m kindly asking you to read the previous announcements instead.

What’s New for Script Maintainers

  • Commands nuvolasdk new-project, nuvolasdk convert-project and nuvolasdk check-project were updated to follow the latest Nuvola standards: two space indentations and no trailing whitespace are used for metadata.in.json and Standard JS code style is enforced for integrate.js.
  • The README.mdtemplate was updated and the command nuvolasdk convert-projectcreates template--README.md & template--README.md.diff files to help with the update of your README.mdfile.
  • Nuvola SDK build system: If src/webview.png image is found, it is used to generate screenshots combining that web view snapshot image with base Nuvola screenshots. The resulting images can be found in the screenshots subdirectory. More screenshot types will be added in the next development cycle. [GitHub ticket]
  • Changes in guidelines: Web view snapshots are mandatory, Standard JS coding style for integrate.json is mandatory, the minimal API level was raised to 4.11.
  • Nuvola.Core::NavigationRequest: You can overwrite request.url field to force redirect during URL filtering.
  • Nuvola.queryAttribute: You can specify a parent element and a relative selector as an array of [parent element, selector].
  • Nuvola.queryText: You can specify a parent element and a relative selector as an array of [parent element, selector].
  • Nuvola.setInputValueWithEvent: The change event is emitted as well.
  • Nuvola ADK is no longer built with the WebKitGTK+ backend.
  • The default web app requirements Feature[Flash] Codec[MP3]were dropped.
  • An issue with radio actions in developer sidebar toggling themselves without user interaction was fixed. [GitHub ticket]
  • Service Integrations Tutorial and Media Player Integration pages were updated to use a new demo player.

What’s New for Third-Party Packagers

  • A build error with--no-cef flag was fixed and a continuous integration task was set up to test a build configuration with this flag after each commit. [GitHub ticket]
  • Since the genuine flatpak builds of Nuvola no longer use WebKitGTK+ backend, all scripts are tested only with the Chromium backend and specify Chromium[X.Y.Z] requirement for that reason. If you are stuck with the WebKitGTK backend, you may remove Chromium[X.Y.Z] Feature[MSE] requirements to make the script run with the WebKitGTK+ backend and add Feature[Flash] to use Flash plugin for audio playback. However, this should be done on a case-by-case basis and after careful testing.
  • Nuvola SDK build system: New dependency for building Nuvola scripts: Pillow ≥ 4.3.
  • Nuvola SDK build system: If src/webview.png image is found, it is used to generate screenshots combining that web view snapshot image with base Nuvola screenshots. The resulting images can be found in the screenshots subdirectory. More screenshot types will be added in the next development cycle. [GitHub ticket]

Release 4.11.0 - May 8th, 2018

Changes for Users

Changes for Script Maintainers

  • New utility function Nuvola.queryText() (doc) used to query an element by a CSS selector expression and return text content or null.
  • New utility function Nuvola.queryAttribute() (doc) used to query an element by a CSS selector expression and return its attribute or null.
  • New utility function Nuvola.setInputValueWithEvent() (doc) used to set the value of an input element and then emit aninput event.
  • New utility function Nuvola.exportImageAsBase64() (doc) used to load and export an image as base64 data URI, e.g., in the case of blob:// resources.
  • The Chromium-based backend now supports URL filtering for external links, which is more powerful than that of WebKitGTK backend, e.g., it can detect JavaScript redirects in initially empty pop-up windows.
  • Developer tools add the WebView sidebar to retrieve and change the dimensions of the web view or to take a snapshot. It will be used to provide AppStream metadata with per-app screenshots to be shown in GNOME Software, for example.
  • Nuvola ADK includes Standard JavaScript code style checker. You can use the standard command to check the style of your script or use standard --fix to convert it.
  • NuvolaKit JavaScript API Reference was updated with new symbols and changelogs were added to track changes more easily.
  • Nuvola SDK calculates a micro version number from git as the number of commits from the last tag and adds it to metadata.json. The micro version number is shown in the About dialog.
  • Nuvola SDK uses two spaces for the indentation of JSON files.

Changes for Third-Party Packagers

  • Nuvola can still be built without the Chromium-based backend. Please let us know whether you still need that possibility or the WebKitGTK-based backend can be removed.
  • Vala ≥ 0.40.4 is required and all compatibility issues with Valac 0.40 were fixed. [GitHub 1, GitHub 2]
  • New dependencies: libpulse and libpulse-mainloop-glib.
  • Canonical’s appindicator3 was replaced with a better maintained fork (libayatana-appindicator3) from Ayatana Indicators project.
  • The WebKitGTK+ VAPI patch was dropped.
  • WAF build system was upgraded to 2.0.6.
  • Build instructions were updated and moved to aBUILD.md file [GitHub].
  • Another batch of scripts was ported to use the Chromium-based backend: 8tracks, Bandcamp, Google Calendar, OwnCloud Music, Plex Music, Pocket Casts, SiriusXM, Amazon Cloud Player, BBC iPlayer, and Jupiter Broadcasting. If you still support only the WebKitGTK-based backend, you can try to remove Chromium[] Feature[MSE] flags from their requirements and add Feature[Flash] when necessary. However, this should be done on a case-by-case basis and only after careful testing. We do not test and support these modifications though.

Release 4.10.0 - March 4th, 2018

New features:

  • Nuvola introduces a new experimental backend based on Chromium Embedded Framework, which facilitates a switch to audio playback without Flash plugin. At present, only Spotify, Deezer, YouTube, Mixcloud, and BBC iPlayer use the new engine, mostly because these scripts simply does not work with the old WebKitGTK backend. However, the goal of the project is to eventually port all scripts from Flash plugin to HTML5-Audio-based playback.

Enhancements:

  • Amazon Cloud Player 5.6 by Andrew Stubbs: Updated album name extraction, added thumbs up/down actions and fixed compatibility with CEF backend.
  • BBC iPlayer 1.4 by Andrew Stubbs: Update live TV & radio integration; fixed compatibility with CEF backend.
  • Deezer 2.8 by Jiří Janoušek: Switched to HTML5 Audio playback instead of the Flash plugin; fixed "Add to Favorite tracks" action.
  • Micxloud 4.1 adopted by Jiří Janoušek: Ported to support the new interface and added CEF backend requirement.
  • Spotify 3.0 adopted by Jiří Janoušek: Updated to support new Spotify web player. Requires CEF backend.
  • YouTube 2.0 adopted by Jiří Janoušek: Fixed metadata parsing and ported to use HTML5 Audio/Video. Requires CEF backend.

Under the hood:

  • Nuvola.parseTimeUsec now supports negative time specs.
  • Increased requirements: Vala >= 0.38.4.
  • New mandatory dependency: libarchive >= 3.2
  • New optional dependencies: ValaCEF (--no-cef), Vala linter (--no-vala-lint).
  • Source code was refactored to use a united coding style which is checked with Vala linter.
  • Some configure options were renamed (e.g. --noxxx → --no-xxx)
  • GIR generation is now optional, you can pass --no-gir to disable it.
  • Welcome screen is now shown from App Runner process instead of the Nuvola Service process, which makes start-up faster.
  • App Runner is now installed as bin/nuvolaruntime and can be invoked independently on Nuvola Service. However, some features are not available if the service cannot be launched via DBus activation.
  • Nuvola Service lost most of command line parameters and cannot be used to launch scripts with nuvola -a ID. Use nuvolaruntime instead.
  • The default unique id is now eu.tiliado.WebRuntime, which is used consistently.
  • Test scripts from web_apps directory are no longer installed. You may install them manually if you deem it necessary.

Release 4.9.0 - December 17th, 2017

Nuvola 4.9.0 is mostly a maintenance release as most of energy is invested in the Chromium port of Nuvola and the development of other features has slowed down. The current status of this ambitious effort will be described in a separate announcement.

Enhancements:

  • URL entry widget was added: Press Ctrl+L or click the gear menu button → Load URL to display/change the current URL.
  • Updated script: Yandex Music 1.5 was adopted by Aleksey Zhidkov and enhanced with an integrated Like button. An album art fix by Alexander Konarev has been also incorporated. Issue: tiliado/nuvola-app-yandex-music#2, tiliado/nuvola-app-yandex-music#10.
  • Updated script: SiriusXM 1.4 by Jiří Janoušek. Metadata parsing adapted to recent SiriusXM changes.
  • Updated script: BBC iPlayer 1.3 by Andrew Stubbs. Fixed integration of radio shows, added integration of progress bar, volume bar and skip action.
  • New script: NPR One 1.0 by Jiří Janoušek.
  • Page loading indicator was added. Issue: #229
  • If Bumblebeed is detected, Nuvola assumes that the integrated Intel graphics card is the primary and skips unnecessary checks for an NVidia flatpak driver. Issue: #380
  • Various fixes regarding VDPAU & VA-API drivers. Issue: #380

Under the hood:

  • WebKitGTK >= 2.18.0 is required.
  • If Nuvola is told that WebKitGTK supports MSE, it checks whether it is so and aborts otherwise. Don't use --webkitgtk-supports-mse if it isn't true.
  • Fixed various memory leaks.
  • Ongoing optimizations to replace synchronous IPC calls with asynchronous variants.
  • ValaCEF project has been created to provide Nuvola with Vala bindings for Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF).

Release 4.8.0 - September 29th, 2017

New Features:

  • New script: Pocket Casts by Jiří Janoušek. Pocket Casts is the only podcatcher you’ll ever need. Listen to your favorite shows in one place, keep in sync progress across various devices, find great new content with curated featured podcasts, currently trending podcasts and much more. Now also with desktop integration provided by Nuvola.
  • Updated script: Groove Music script 2.0 by Joel Cumberland works again in Nuvola after being ported to use Media Source Extension instead of Flash plugin.
  • Updated script: Amazon Cloud Player script 5.5 by Andrew Stubbs integrates a track progress bar and volume controls.
  • Updated script: Google Play Music script 6.0 by Jiří Janoušek uses new asynchronous API to improve responsiveness and reduce lags, but also drops support for Nuvola 4.7 and older.

Discontinued Features:

  • Spotify script is temporarily unsupported until Nuvola is ported to Chromium Embedded framework because Spotify dropped support for WebKit browsers (including Nuvola and Safari).
  • Yandex Music script is currently orphaned and needs a new maintainer. The script is still shipped with Nuvola 4.8 but may be removed in the future unless somebody adopts it. If anyone is interested, please get in touch with me at Nuvola Devel mailing list.

News for Script Maintainers:

  • Asynchronous variants of various JavaScript API calls were introduced deprecating original synchronous methods. The async methods return a Promise object, which is used to resolve the result of the async operation.
  • List of async methods: Notifications.isPersistenceSupportedAsync, Actions.isEnabledAsync, Actions.getStateAsync, Core.getComponentInfoAsync, Core.isComponentLoadedAsync, Core.isComponentActiveAsync, KeyValueStorage.setDefaultAsync, KeyValueStorage.hasKeyAsync, KeyValueStorage.getAsync and KeyValueStorage.setAsync.
  • New function: Nuvola.logException to log exceptions to terminal.
  • JavaScript API reference now supports new annotations such as "Deprecated since", "Available since" and "asynchronous" function.

Under the Hood:

  • Nuvola uses new IPC API from Diorite 4.8 and replaced a lot of synchronous IPC calls between WebWorker and AppRunner processes with asynchronous variants. This should improve the performance of the WebKit WebProcess, reduce lags and prevent occasional deadlocks. However, scripts must use the newly-introduced async JavaScript API to reach the full potential. Google Play Music is the first one.

Release 4.7.0 - September 1st, 2017

New Features:

  • New web app: Jupiter Broadcasting by Andrew Stubbs.
  • The genuine flatpak builds offers free trial and $1/month subscription.
  • For sake of transparency, preferences dialog shows placeholders for features which were disabled by a distributor.

Bug Fixes:

  • VAAPI/VDPAU checks are not run under Wayland. Issue: #280 Issue: #359
  • URL sandbox was not honoured properly: Issue: #367

News for Script Maintainers:

  • API 4.6 is required for new scripts.

Under the Hood:

  • Nuvola no longer bundles *.vapi files but depends on those of Valac 0.36.3. However, glib-2.0.vapi and webkit2gtk-web-extension-4.0.vapi must be patched to work properly (see vapi/*.patch). You may need to modify wscript if you don't use Valac 0.36. Issue: #369
  • Valac and GLib dependencies were raised to 0.36.3 and 2.52. Issue: #369
  • GIR XML and typelib files are generated. Introduces new dependency on g-ir-compiler.
  • There was a lot of refactoring to allow usage of Python-GObject and to support multiple web engines in future.
  • Future warning: Nuvola is likely to introduce dependency on Python 3.6.

Release 4.6.0 - 29th July, 2017

New Features:

  • Start-up system checks run in parallel to decrease start-up time. In case of any problem, only a single dialog is shown instead of multiple error dialogs or info bars.
  • WebKitGTK+ was upgraded to 2.16.6 fixing many security vulnerabilities and rendering issue.
  • Media Source Extension (MSE) is enabled in WebKitGTK as well as in Nuvola itself. This applies only to the genuine flatpak builds of Nuvola. MSE is required by some web apps for Flash-free audio/video playback.
  • New web app: BBC iPlayer by Andrew Stubbs. Note that this script requires MSE and may not work with third-party builds of Nuvola. Issue: #321

Bug fixes:

  • Graphics.dri2_get_driver_name() now throws error instead of an uncaught critical warning if it cannot connect to X Server. Issue: #359
  • Fixed typo in Nuvola.parseTimeUsec. Issue: #357
  • int64 is used for track position to avoid integer overflow. Issue: #358

News for Script Maintainers:

  • Developer sidebar can now change track rating.
  • Media player API documentation was updated with track rating.

Under the Hood:

  • New dependency: unit.js 2.0.0 (installed as /usr/share/javascript/unitjs/unit.js) is used for JavaScript unit tests (included in the test service - web_apps/test subdirectory).
  • Added support for org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.MediaKeys D-Bus name. Upstream ticket.
  • The content of format support dialog was moved to Preferences dialog and various toggles were removed.
  • The content of bindings, models and interfaces directories was merged into components directory.

Release 4.5.0 - 24th June, 2017

New Features:

  • Nuvola Apps Runtime supports the integration of a progress bar and volume management. Web app scripts which use this feature can not only provide track length & position and current volume but also allow user to change that remotely, e.g. from Media Player GNOME Shell extension. At the present, only Deezer and Google Play Music scripts use these features but others will follow. Issue: #22 Issue: #155
  • If Nuvola Apps Runtime detect a Nvidia graphics card, it checks whether the flatpak extension with corresponding graphics driver is installed. If it isn't, e.g. because of a bug in GNOME Software, an error message is shown to provide the user with installation instructions. Issue: #342
  • After a lot of effort, a workaround for the instability of Flash plugin was found out and is used until WebKitGTK developers find a proper fix. However, it is applied only in flatpak builds because it may have negative impact on other WebKitGTK applications otherwise. Issue: #354

Bug fixes:

  • Wrong command in desktop launcher was fixed. Issue: #348
  • Fix wscript for non-git builds. Issue: tiliado/diorite#16

News for Script Maintainers:

  • Nuvola.VERSION_MICRO contains micro version of Nuvola Runtime.
  • Nuvola.API_VERSION_MAJOR and Nuvola.API_VERSION_MINOR are now deprecated aliases of Nuvola.VERSION_MAJOR and Nuvola.VERSION_MINOR.
  • Tutorial was updated to use Nuvola ADK 4.4.
  • Added documentation of web app requirement flags.
  • Added documentation of user agent quirks.
  • New API for progress bar integration.
  • New API for volume management integration.
  • New utility functions Nuvola.encodeVersion and Nuvola.checkVersion.
  • Nuvola.triggerMouseEvent and clickOnElement support relative x & y coordinates.

Under the Hood:

  • New dependencies: libdrm >= 2.2 and libdri2 >= 1.0
  • Nuvola checks whether VDPAU and VA-API drivers are installed and prints debugging information to console. It will show error dialog in the future though, so make sure the drivers are installed. Issue: #280
  • Internal icon loading code was refactored. Legacy icon.png and nuvolaplayer3_XXX icons are no longer supported. eu.tiliado.NuvolaAppXxx is used everywhere. Issue: #353

Release 4.4.0 - 27th May, 2017

New Features:

  • Tray icon feature can now use AppIndicator library instead of obsolete X11 tray icons. Although app indicators are mostly known from Ubuntu's Unity desktop, they also work in elementaryOS and GNOME Shell (with AppIndicator extension) and provide superior user experience. Issue: #45
  • Users can easily clear cookies, cache and temporary files, IndexedDB and WebSQL databases and local storage from the Preferences dialog → tab Website Data. Issue: #331

Enhancements:

  • Versioning scheme was changed to be more compact, e.g. 4.4.1 instead of 3.1.4-1.gabcd. Nuvola 4.0 was re-targeted as Nuvola 5.0.
  • Nuvola can do its own user agent quirks (i.e. to disguise itself as a different web browser) in order to work around web pages that doesn't work with the WebKit's user agent string. Issue: #336
  • Flatpak builds use the latest stable WebKitGTK+ 2.16.3 bringing fixes for three security vulnerabilities as well as several crashes and rendering issues.

Web App Scripts:

  • Google Play Music script uses own user agent quirks to work around the malfunctioning Google sign-in web page. Issue: #336

Bug fixes:

  • The build script now raises error if it is ran with Python < 3.4.
  • Fixed a bug when the menus of tray icons and dock items were not updated.
  • Nuvola now aborts when required data files are not found (e.g. in incomplete installation) rather they running with errors in the background.
  • Obsolete test suite has been removed. A new one will be created during ongoing modernization. Issue: #335
  • Broken -L/--log-file options were removed. Issue: #338
  • Various fixes of HTTP Remote Control feature.

Under the Hood:

  • Nuvola's filesystem namespace was changed from nuvolaplayer3 to nuvolaruntime. The data dir is installed at PREFIX/share/nuvolaruntime, libraries were renamed to libnuvolaruntime-*.so and binaries to nuvola(ctl). Users' configuration, data and cache is migrated automatically.
  • Nuvola's git repository was moved to https://github.com/tiliado/nuvolaruntime.
  • WebKitGTK+ >= 2.16.0 is required as all new API is now used unconditionally to make maintenance easier.
  • Added optional dependency on appindicator3-0.1 >= 0.4. Use ./waf configure --noappindicator to disable this dependency and related functionality (Tray icon feature).
  • Nuvola no longer bundles Engine.io-client JavaScript library but expect version 3.1.0 of it located at the JSDIR/engine.io-client/engine.io.js (JSDIR is DATADIR/javascript unless changed with --jsdir). Issue: #341
  • Nuvola no longer supports web app scripts without a desktop file.
  • Test suite was reintroduced (build/run-nuvolaruntime-tests). Issue: #335
  • A lot of refactoring and removal of obsolete code and other improvements.

Milestone 3.1.3 - April 30, 2017

New Features:

  • elementaryOS Loki has been added among officially supported distributions. Nuvola flatpaks contain a work-in-progress GTK+ 3.22 port of the elementary theme to provide elementaryOS users with a native look. Installation instructions and documentation have been updated accordingly. Issue: #4
  • All three variants of the Arc theme have been added to Nuvola flatpaks. Issue: /issues/318

Enhancements:

  • Ubuntu themes have been updated. Issue: #324
  • Initial start-up of flatpak builds is faster.
  • The text of Welcome dialog was moved to the first tab of the main window because it may contain useful information.
  • WebKitGTK+ 2.16 API to set network proxy is used replacing previous legacy hacks.
  • The official builds of Nuvola are marked as "genuine flatpak builds"

Bug fixes:

  • Apps that are not media players no longer steal media keys. Issue: #230
  • Fixed activation for Premium users. Issue: #325
  • App menu, toolbar & menu bar handling was refactored and double app menus fixed. Issue: tiliado/diorite#4

Under the Hood:

  • Build script of Nuvola was reworked, ported to Waf 1.9.10 and supports branding. See Readme.md for more information.
  • Build script of Diorite was reworked and ported to Waf 1.9.10. See Diorite's Readme.md for more information.
  • Modernisation has begun. Dependencies were raised and legacy code is being removed.
  • All Python scripts require Python >= 3.4.
  • Code has been ported to Valac 0.36.

Milestone 3.1.2 - March 26, 2017

New Features:

  • Nuvola Player was renamed to Nuvola Apps as non-media player apps (Google Calendar) were enabled and should be fully supported in the 4.0 release.
  • Nuvola Apps are distributed as cross-distribution flatpak builds. There have been a lot of changes under the hood to support this transition.
  • The nuvolaplayer3 and nuvolaplayer3ctl commands are deprecated in favor of nuvola and nuvolactl.
  • WebApp scripts provide own desktop files so the unnecessary create/delete desktop launchers actions were removed.

Enhancements:

  • Enhanced support of HTML5 Audio and Media Source Extension (MSE), which is currently enabled only in the BBC iPlayer script with a custom WebKitGTK+ build.
  • Album art is downloaded with WebKit's NetworkProcess to access images that are otherwise restricted. Issue: #76
  • Preferences dialog: Components tab was renamed to Features as it is more user-friendly.

Under the Hood:

  • Inter-process communication has been reworked for greater flexibility as required by the HTTP Remote Control feature.
  • Nuvola and individual apps are DBus-activatable.
  • The unique name has been changed to eu.tiliado.Nuvola and most of the resources (e.g. icons) use this name.
  • AppData/AppStream metadata have been updated.
  • The build script now honors the VAPIDIR env variable.
  • Added a script to set up Nuvola CDK environment (setup_nuvolacdk.sh).

Bug Fixes:

  • "Too many flash plugins" false positives. Resolve symlinks and track final paths not to count duplicates. Issue: #159
  • Repeated Runner: prefix in debugging output. Issue: #265
  • Disable LIBGL_DRI3_DISABLE workaround with WebKitGTK 2.14+ to fix performance issues. Issue: #260

News for Script Maintainers:

  • Documentation has been updated and Mantainer's Guide merged into the tutorial.
  • Format requirements flag were implemented but not yet documented.
  • Web app scripts are built with Nuvola SDK.

Milestone 3.1.1 - October 30, 2016

New Features:

  • Support for showing and setting track rating over MPRIS, especially in the GNOME Shell Media Player extension (git master version). Issue: #204
  • The HTTP Remote Control interface to control Nuvola Player over network via an Engine.io socket.
  • The Media Player Controller web page to control Nuvola Player from any device with a web browser (e.g. a phone). Uses the HTTP Remote Control interface.
  • The Nuvola Controller Pebble Watchapp to control Nuvola Player from Pebble watches. Uses the HTTP Remote Control interface.
  • The Password Manager to store passwords from login forms in a secure keyring.

Enhancements:

  • An option to always run in background regardless a song is playing or not.
  • Better support of HTML5 Audio. It is sufficient for ownCloud Music web app but more work is still necessary to support Google Play Music. Issue: #52
  • Pop-up windows are allowed to pop up a new window, which is required by the SoundCloud's log-in-via-Google feature. Issue: tiliado/nuvola-app-soundcloud#3
  • A hint how to edit or remove a keyboard shortcut. Issue: #217
  • Users can disable media keys bindings in the Preferences dialog. Issue: #237
  • Inter process communication backed has been rewritten.
  • All web app scripts have been ported to comply with the latest guidelines.

Bug Fixes:

  • Remove config option --with-appindicator as the AppIndicator integration is currently unmaintained. Issue: #201, #45
  • Add missing -a/--app-id command-line argument to the --help screen. Issue: #147
  • MPRIS implementation of CanPlay and CanPause flags has been fixed. Issue: #224
  • Warnings when Notifications is being disabled has been removed. Issue: #227
  • Don't use notifications API if disabled as it produces critical warnings. Issue: #227
  • Set GDK_BACKEND to x11 not to crash under Wayland. Issue: #181
  • Disable compositing mode in WebKitGTK < 2.13.4 as it may crash some websites. Issue: #245

News for Script Maintainers:

  • Web app integration template has been moved to its own repository.
  • Added information about Format Requirements Flags. Issue: #158
  • Nuvola.VERSION property contains Nuvola version encoded as single integer, e.g. e.g. 30105 for 3.1.5.
  • Nuvola.API_VERSION property contains Nuvola API version encoded as single integer, e.g. e.g. 301 for 3.1.
  • Nuvola.WEBKITGTK_{VERSION,MAJOR,MINOR,MICRO} properties contain version information about WebKitGTK+ library.
  • Nuvola.LIBSOUP_{VERSION,MAJOR,MINOR,MICRO} properties contain version information about Soup library.
  • New API to set rating.
  • It is possible to set a user agent string via the user_agent field of metadata.json. Issue: #91
  • It is possible to enable access to insecure content. This happens when a web page loaded over HTTPS protocol loads any content over HTTP protocol.
  • Developer documentation and guidelines have been updated.

Changes in Dependencies:

  • Increased: WebKitGTK >= 2.6.2, Valac >= 0.26.1, GLib >= 2.42.1 and GTK+ >= 3.14.5.
  • New: libuuid and libnm-(util/glib)

Release 3.0.0 - December 30, 2015

Initial release of the third generation, which has been rewritten from scratch.