Draft release notes for 2024.10.0

[barbeque-squared]

Draft notes are below the horizontal line. Other remarks:

• I've removed the upcoming breaking change about 8/12 players since it never worked anyway. It also appears to be impossible to change IMaxPlayerCount without completely breaking USDX, so expect a PR that just removes them from the menu options soon.
• Intended to be released on Sun Oct 13
• Note to self: change publish time on the website PR

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📈 Enhancements

• Most Windows DLLs are now in a separate repository + DLL updates Remove DLLs build in other repo and download new ones from there #889 Fix downloading of DLL releases #897 document DLL updates #893 less untracked files on Windows #905
• Selecting notes in the editor no longer counts as having modified the song Do not mark edited file as dirty when selecting note #908
• Support FFmpeg 7.1 Update to ffmpeg 7.1 #914

🪲 Bug Fixes

• Fix PulseAudio support in AppImage Fix issues with PulseAudio in CI build #888
• Editor can now handle sentences with 0 length UMusic: Consider line duration 0 as no duration #898
• Better recognize alphanumeric characters Improve check for alphabetic characters. #890
• Draw tone indicator at the correct height in editor Refactor DrawPlayerTrack #906
• Fix typo in Polish translation Fix typo in Polish translation #907
• Maximum line bonus is now 1000 fix scoreline bonus only allowing values up to 990 instead of 1000 #910
• Windows version loads folders and filenames with special accents work again fix special characters in file and folder names #904
• Player names can be set in Party - Tournament again allow to set player names in party->tournament again #909

Other Changes

• Various refactorings Refactorings in USingScores and UScreenSong #883 cleanup GetPlayerLightColor vs GetPlayerLightColorV2 #892
• Do not trigger CI twice for branches in the USDX repo that also have a PR CI: prevent duplicate triggering of build workflow #891
• Fix CI download timeout CI/Windows: fix sourceforge download timeout #896
• Update AppImage dependencies Update dependencies for Linux AppImage #899
• CI Mac builds are independent CI: Deactivate fail-fast for Mac builds #913

[s09bQ5]

Does 6 player mode work reliably? There is a screenshot on our website showing that mode that is also used on Flathub.

[basisbit]

6 players mode has worked well since before the project migrated from Sourceforge to GitHub. It is the most common usage mode at any of the bigger events I attend. You better not break that 😝

[barbeque-squared]

I didn't say anything about 6 lol. 6 works fine in both single and multi screen. It's 8 and 12 that don't work. But the correct way would not only remove 8 and 12 from the player options, it should also change IMaxPlayerCount, but doing so leads to very unrelated errors, and also the game becoming Portuguese or something. I just haven't figured out what else (aside from lua functions) is abusing it.

But this is getting very offtopic for a release ticket, once I have some time I'll create a proper ticket.

[barbeque-squared]

hmmm that's an issue:
https://github.com/UltraStar-Deluxe/USDX/actions/runs/11298115383/job/31460549445
Mac doesn't appear to want to build, it probably has something to do with FFmpeg 7. Unfortunately I don't have anything Mac so aside from yolo'ing whatever number it's complaining about to some super high number, I can't fix this.

I guess release is blocked until this is fixed.

[s09bQ5]

Should be fixed by #914

[barbeque-squared]

All steps of the release have been completed / related PRs merged.