The latest version of Rygel can be downloaded from Softpedia

Aug 21, 2014 12:52 GMT  ·  By

Rygel, a home media solution (UPnP AV MediaServer) that allows users to easily share audio, video, and pictures to other devices, is now at version 0.23.3.

With Rygel, users will be able to browse the media collection from the TV or PS3 on a PC running GNOME, and they will have the possibility to play any of said media.

According to the changelog, GObject introspection support and some examples have been added, building with some recent Vala versions is now possible, a crash that occurred when the ImportResource was canceled has been fixed, the error handling in ImportResource has been simplified, the new libmediaart API is now used, and it's now possible to re-implement the PlayerController.

Moreover, Libmediaart 0.5.0 is now required, a few bugfixes have been implemented, and some of the translations have been updated.

Check out the official changelog for a complete list of updates and new features. You can download Rygel 0.23.3 right now from Softpedia, but this is just the source package. If you want to use this application right now you will have to check the local repositories, or you can employ this PPA (for Ubuntu).

Remember that this is a development version and it should NOT be installed on production machines. It is intended for testing purposes only.