This is a **preview release** — Lumiera is not usable yet.
Publication was again motivated by a series of major upgrades and clean-up.
Compilation now requires C++23 and Debian/Trixie is considered the reference
platform. The GUI is connected to the core over an asynchronous messaging
bus and the timeline display has been reshaped to accommodate flexibly
nested structures of media content, instructed by the session through
a series of _diff messages_. A scheduler has been implemented to drive
the Render Engine, but the connection to the player and UI for output
is yet unfinished.
...and split-out the description of preview-releases,
since that rather belongs into some kind of changelog (NEWS).
Furthermore, check the links to the build dependencies
Starting with ''preview release'' `v0.pre.04`, branch and version tags
will be handled in accordance to the **Git-flow** naming scheme.
Notably this implies that from now on the version in-tree will indicate
the ''next expected release,'' adorned by a suffix to mark the preview.
To accommodate this transition to Git-flow
- the new branch `integration` will be introduced
- the version number will once (and the last time for this release)
be adjusted ''before'' forking the release branch
- branch `master` will transition to reflect the latest released state
- several existing branches will be discontinued, notably
`gui`, `steam`, `vault`, `release`, `play`
This is a development snaphot pre release of Lumiera.
It features codebase maintenance, upgrade to C++14 and GTK-3
and some work towards a Proc-GUI connection (unfinished)
Update README, AUTHORS, LICENSE and similar release docs.
