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[Jason Gerard DeRose <jderose@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

What's New

This month was a big milestone for Dmedia because we turned on the active
file monitoring.

(Please note that we do not yet consider Dmedia production ready. Please
don't yet trust Dmedia as the only place you store your files.)

The active monitoring verifies that the files in your library still exist,
have the expected modification time, and have the exact expected file
content. This monitoring allows Dmedia to detect hardware failure and
respond accordingly. Think of it like really smart RAID that works
seamlessly between multiple computers and even the cloud.

The first time Dmedia 12.12 runs, you might notice a lot of CPU usage and
disk activity as Dmedia verifies all the files is your library. We don't
yet have a smart way of scheduling this background verification, so if it
is too annoying you can open a terminal and kill Dmedia like this:

dmedia-cli Kill

 For details, please see the Dmedia 12.12 release
notes<https://launchpad.net/dmedia/trunk/12.12>.

Special Thanks

Special thanks to all the new people who continue to file crash and bug
reports, including HeCSa <https://launchpad.net/%7Ehsaltiel>,
Donalbain<https://launchpad.net/%7Ej-donalbain>,
Thibaut Brandscheid <https://launchpad.net/%7Ek1au3-is-37>.

Special thanks to Simon Wells <https://launchpad.net/%7Exzcvczx> for diving
into development this month. Simon has already made merge proposals for
Novacut, Dmedia, and UserWebKit.

And special thanks to Kevin
Cloinger<https://plus.google.com/u/0/106479011389609622954/posts>
for trying a tutorial hang-out-on-air with me. I walked Kevin through adding
a new CouchDB view in Dmedia <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aUO2zkLEtY>.
The only problem is often the text is difficult to read, so be sure to
watch it fullsceen at 480p.

As always, if you want to get involved with Novacut development, please
stop by the #novacut <http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=novacut> IRC
channel on freenode and introduce yourself.
Install Novacut 12.12

Please follow these
instructions<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Novacut/HowToInstall>to install
Novacut on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise), Ubuntu 12.12 (Quantal),
or Ubuntu Raring (the development version). Note that if you've already
installed a previous version of Novacut, you'll automatically get Novacut
12.12 the next time the Ubuntu Update Manager runs.

If you're trying Novacut for the first time, you probably want to
start by watching
this <https://vimeo.com/groups/novacutartistdiaries/videos/41021506> so you
understand a bit about Dmedia, and then watch
this<https://vimeo.com/groups/novacutartistdiaries/videos/41021504>to
get a good tour of Novacut.
Source code

You can download the source code from each component's Launchpad project
page:

   - novacut <https://launchpad.net/novacut>
   - dmedia <https://launchpad.net/dmedia>
   - filestore <https://launchpad.net/filestore>
   - microfiber <https://launchpad.net/microfiber>
   - userwebkit <https://launchpad.net/userwebkit>
   - usercouch <https://launchpad.net/usercouch>
   - dc3 <https://launchpad.net/dc3>