Nuvola 3.1.1

The milestone 3.1.1 was released on October 2016.

New Features

Ability to both display and set track rating in Media Player Indicator GNOME Shell extension: Providing a streaming service supports it, Nuvola Player 4 exports track rating in MPRIS interface and a custom method to set rating of a track. Note that as of October 30th 2016, Player Indicator git master version is required.
HTTP Remote Control interface: This interface allows creation of client apps to control Nuvola Player over network via an Engine.io socket.
Media Player Controller web page: This page is an example of a client using the HTTP Remote Control interface. It allows you to control Nuvola Player from any device with a web browser (e.g. a phone).
Nuvola Controller Pebble Watchapp: This app for Pebble watches is another example of a client using the HTTP Remote Control interface. It allows you to control Nuvola Player from your wrist.
Password Manager: With the Password Manager, you can store passwords from login forms in a secure keyring.

An option to always run in background regardless a song is playing or not. See in action in Unity or GNOME.
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: tiliado/nuvolaplayer#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: tiliado/nuvolaplayer#217
Users can disable media keys bindings in the Preferences dialog. Issue: tiliado/nuvolaplayer#237
Inter process communication backed has been rewritten.
All web app scripts have been ported to comply with the latest guidelines.
Packaging improvements: support of independent installation of individual scripts and correct package metadata (e.g. license and homepage).

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

Web app integration template has been moved to its own repository.
Added information about Format Requirements Flags. Issue: tiliado/nuvolaplayer#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: tiliado/nuvolaplayer#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.

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

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