Ardour Update

Ardour has been updated to v2.8.

This is primarily a bug fix version but it also comes with a couple of significant features. These include much more reliable VST support on Linux, track/bus templates and, with some important qualifications, AudioUnit state and preset handling, according to Ardour.

New Features:

Track/Bus Templates.
Distributable VST support.
VST preset handling.
VST chunk handling.
AudioUnit state & preset handling.
New playhead-to-{next, previous}-region-boundary variant commands that ignores track selection (on Linux, Windows-LeftArrow or Windows-RightArrow; on OS X, Ctrl-LeftArrow or Ctrl-RightArrow).
New, thoroughly edited Spanish translation.
New “accurate” crossfade icons.

Fixes:

Correct handling of Shift- shortcuts on OS X.
Fix confusion with Ctrl/Cmd/Option on OS X.
Cmd-, now shows Preferences window on OS X.
Removing a track/bus that was visible in the editor mixer strip causes the editor mixer strip to move to the next track/bus.
Default click output is dual mono (2 outs), not mono (1 out).
Fix ordering of editor & mixer displays when order in the other window is changed and sync-editor-mixer-order is enabled.
If we attempt to move beyond the current limit of the horizontal scrollbar, change its upper limit so that we keep scrolling (fixes a bug with playhead tracking beyond the current session end).
Standardize sizing of ComboBoxSelectors throughout the GUI.
Fix crash when renaming a track after deleting a plugin that had a visible GUI/editor window.
Make “consolidate range” and “bounce range to region list” not apply processing to the original audio.
Added variants of “consolidate range” and “bounce range” which do apply processing.
Fix potential for clipping when use Transpose or TimeFX.
Standardize some menu actions across CD and loop/punch rulers. also allow right-click drag to create ranges, which may be more discoverable than ctrl-click drag because the other rulers already use right-click for creating markers.
Mute region" shortcut operates on all selected regions.
Fixes for crossfade clicks.
Fixes for gcc 4.4.
Fix crash when sending MIDI feedback with MTC enabled.
Allow dragging of automation lines.
Preserve sufficient significant digits when saving automation events to disk.
Quantize shuttle speed changes to whole semitones when shuttle in semitone mode.
Use region sync points correctly for grid and playhead motion.
Fix subtle bug when playing plugin automation that could sometimes lead to crashes and memory corruption.
Use Vamp 2.0 and Rubberband 1.3 (includes an important fix for a potential audible issue when stretching).
Fix freeze progress bar display.
Fix potential crash caused by multithreaded execution of plugins while “freezing” a track.
Make name-click to toggle plugin active state show up via the bypass button state in the GUI.
Context menu-driven operations on ruler bars now cause things to be added in the right place (e.g. new markers).
Fix a crash that occurred while dragging a region after a split.
Do not cache JACK port buffer addresses, to permit operation with experimental versions of Jack2.