PraxisLIVE v5.0.0

[Neil C Smith]

Hi,

PraxisLIVE v5.0.0 is now available from https://www.praxislive.org

This is the first full release of PraxisCORE and PraxisLIVE v5.x.
Windows and macOS bundles, as well as a zip bundle, are below. Linux
users may try the new AppImage based packaging, which also includes an
embedded JDK from AdoptOpenJDK, or use the zip bundle that uses the
system installed JDK. To use the AppImage simply download, make it
executable and run it.

v5 is a major rewrite of both the core runtime and the IDE. Much
legacy and deprecated functionality has been removed. All of
PraxisCORE has now been rewritten around the new base actor system
introduced in parallel in 4.4.0. PraxisCORE is now built on top of the
Java module system, rather than the Apache NetBeans platform (the
PraxisLIVE IDE is still based on Apache NetBeans). The build for
PraxisCORE has been moved to Maven, and individual modules will be
deployed to central for re-use in other projects.

Both PraxisLIVE and PraxisCORE require at least Java 11 - an
open-source Java 11 JDK from AdoptOpenJDK is included in the binary
packages.

PraxisLIVE now supports running multiple projects at once. Distributed
hub support has moved from the IDE into PraxisCORE, and is configured
separately for each project. The default project configuration will
run audio and video roots in separate Java processes.

The PraxisCORE runtime is included in the praxiscore folder inside the
IDE. It can be copied out and run from the CLI for networking or
project running, or embedded inside a project to make it standalone.

Video support is now based on libp5x, a modularised fork of Processing
that uses LWJGL for OpenGL rendering.

Audio support is now based around JAudioLibs Pipes v2, which is also
available as a standalone library including all the unit generators
available in PraxisCORE. (Pipes Graph replicates much of the built-in
functionality of the PraxisCORE audio code).

Please report any problems, or requests for future versions, at
https://github.com/praxis-live/support/issues

Have fun! Spread the word.

Many thanks and best wishes,

Neil