This program adjusts an audio mixer from X11, the console, a terminal, the command line or a script. It uses the Open Sound System API and works on OpenBSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD, and Linux.

Version 2.9.1 was released 6 May 2010. Thanks to Stefan Ott for help in preparing this release.

changes in this version

• icon is now compatible with KDE panel (Bruce Sass)
• cursor is no longer blue on exit from full-screen mode (Michael Lee Yohe)
• loading a color scheme from a file works again
• a crash caused by wrong parsing of options is fixed (Kees Cook)
• build system and internationalization updated to use latest autotools and gettext idioms (code credit: Owen Taylor, Alexandre Oliva, Gordon Matzigkeit, Bruno Haible, Ulrich Drepper, and the Free Software Foundation)
• fixed a bug that could leave the terminal unusable on exit from full-screen mode (Aleksey Cheusov)
• non-ASCII shortcut keys, such as in the Swedish translation, now work (Mikael Hedin)
• support for obsolete GTK+ 1.2 has been removed
• documentation mentions new mailing lists instead of defunct one
• in full-screen mode, record/play indicators are only redrawn when their state changes (Romain Francoise)
• when an error occurs in GTK+ mode, an error message is now printed and aumix will not try to close a window that has not yet been opened (Bas Zoetekouw)
• a bug where mute script saved the wrong settings is fixed (Owen Leonard/Cory Wiltshire)
• in full-screen mode, the cursor is placed next to the active control, to ease reading on a Braille terminal (Sébastien Hinderer)
• bootstrap script added
• in the aumix.1 man page, -i, -o, -r and -W options are now properly documented, and hyphens are changed to minus signs (Romain Francoise, Tibor Csögör and Stefan Ott)
• a syntax error was fixed in the xaumix.1 man page (Stefan Ott)
• in full-screen mode, the balance arrow is now erased once a balance control is no longer active (Romain Francoise)
• new shortcut key "0" sets maximum level or extreme right balance (Romain Francoise)
• error messages are now more informative (Stefan Ott)
• in full-screen mode, the active device is shown more prominently
• the shortcut key for muting was changed, and now works in the German language (Bernhard Reiter)
• a crash when the HOME environment variable is set but empty has been fixed (Eduard Bloch)
• the DISPLAY environment variable is now ignored if it is set, but empty (Bas Zoetekouw)

hashes

MD5 (aumix-2.9.1.tar.bz2) = 34f28ae1c94fc5298e8bb2688c4b3a20
SHA1 (aumix-2.9.1.tar.bz2) = 1b84054cfb74d3513b254d05c2fb08f6a6a3edc7
SHA256 (aumix-2.9.1.tar.bz2) = d2ce43d532ef75072c8d4e7922e3bc06be6d97765a508d9ceb0d1766bbe70e29
SIZE (aumix-2.9.1.tar.bz2) = 231622

The project now has two new mailing lists, hosted by Gna.org (Free Software Foundation France). The aumix-announce list is only for announcements; the aumix-general list is for all discussion about aumix.

You are likely to get warnings from your browser when visiting the gna.org sites. If this worries you, you can check that the fingerprints of the site certificate are 60:03:7b:cc:f9:bf:18:a8:47:b9:86:36:fe:8b:46:6f:e5:cd:c8:a8 (SHA1) and 06:5a:0c:02:98:0a:b4:61:8e:6b:7a:d3:8e:e1:25:f2 (MD5).

You can download a tarball of the CVS repository here. It has the following changes since the 2.9.1 release:

• po/LINGUAS now generated by bootstrap script
• Norwegian BokmÃ¥l translation added (Per Øyvind Karlsen)
• add forgotten part of patch for printing error message when mixer cannot be opened from GTK+ mode (Bas Zoetekouw)
• add end tags for new sections in aumix.1 to correct syntax (Stefan Ott)
• in main() in common.c, delete an unneeded #ifdef that was overlooked when GTK+ 1.2 support was removed