Good bye 2025! Hello Auralquiz 1.1!!

Finally time for a new release of Auralquiz, with some modernization of the codebase and minor new features.

Changelog

The most notable changes since v1.0.0 are:

• Added the possibility of setting several music folders.
• Updated AppStream-related file naming and IDs to current standards.
• Added Qt 6 support.
• Fixed building under certain versions of Qt and Phonon.
• Fixed a few multiplayer issues.
• TagLib 2.x is now preferred.
• Dropped Qt 4 support.

Getting it

Auralquiz is available in the repositories of several GNU/linux distributions. At the time of this post, at least Debian 7 (Wheezy) and newer, Mageia 2 and later, Ubuntu 13.10 and newer, and ALT Linux. Hopefully they’ll have this release packaged soon, either in regular updates or in backports repositories. Thanks to all the great packagers who make this possible!

You can get the code from linux-games.org (old qt-apps.org): https://www.linux-games.org/p/1109384/ or from GNU Savannah: http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/auralquiz/auralquiz-v1.1.tar.gz

If you need or want to build from source, check the INSTALL file for details on how to build it and the necessary build-time and runtime dependencies.

Happy new year!!

AkariXB v1.0 is out!

It’s been a while! It’s time for a new version of AkariXB, my Jabber/XMPP bot!

The main changes since v0.9 are:

• Added basic conversation handling.
• Small improvements in chat widgets.
• Added Qt 6 support, removed Qt 5 support.
• Improved usability with smaller screens/resolutions.
• Improved network reconnection and fixed some crashes.

The source code for this release can be downloaded from linux-apps.com, part of the opendesktop.org network, and from AkariXB release archive at akarixb.nongnu.org.

The development repository is at gitlab.com/akarixb/akarixb-dev.

The main dependencies are Qt 6 and the QXMPP library.

AkariXB is available in the repositories of Mageia 6 and later, Rosa 2016.1 and Archlinux’s AUR. I hope it can be included in more GNU distributions soon. If you’re interested in having it in yours, just ask them =)

Happy holidays!