[mythtv-users] worth upgrading to 0.28?

[Mark Perkins]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf
> Of Jerome Yuzyk
> Sent: Wednesday, 12 April 2017 7:16 AM
> To: Discussion about MythTV <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] worth upgrading to 0.28?
> 
> On Tuesday, April 11, 2017 5:49:24 AM MDT Jim Abernathy wrote:
> > On 04/10/2017 04:32 PM, Jerome Yuzyk wrote:
> > > I'm currently running MythTV 0.27.6-2 on Fedora 22 and while it has
> > > some rough edges, mostly due to PulseAudio I think, at least I'm
> > > familiar with them.
> > >
> > > Now that the NHL Hockey playoffs are coming up I'm wondering if 0.28
> > > on Fedora 25 will be worth the effort.
> > >
> > > Currently I have a Motorola DCT-700 feeding a Hauppauge PVR-500 and
> > > a Motorola DCX-3200M feeding Firewire.
> > >
> > > I could just upgrade to Fedora 23 and stay with MythTV 0.27 and
> > > maybe gain some patches to PulseAudio, or go all the way to 0.28 and
> > > get some MythTV upgrades.
> > >
> > > I've read through https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Release_Notes_-_0.28
> > > and don't see anything that would benefit me for TV recording.
> > >
> > > Would the move to 0.28  be of any benefit that I'm not seeing?
> >
> > I paralleled .27 and .28 for a while to make sure I didn't have issues
> > before upgrading.  The only thing I noticed was in mythtranscode which
> > I used in a script job for post processing.  It has been fixed and I'm
> > very content with .28.
> >
> > I thought is that most work moving forward will be on .28 and not .27,
> > so any improvements will not be picked up if I stayed on .27.
> >
> > There have been some improvements on commercial skips that I noticed
> > from my frontend.
> >
> > Once a month I run upgrades to get the latest patches on Ubuntu and
> > mythtv and that's the only time I have to reboot or even mess with the
> > backend.  Very stable.
> 
> Thanks. I was mostly wondering whether there might be something really
> compelling to jump at or avoid the full upgrade from Fedora 22 to 25 and
> 0.27 to 0.28. F23 is the last release to have 0.27 and I'm doing that upgrade
> now.
> 
It will be fairly subjective depending on your individual use case / usage patterns. After all, there are still some happily running 0.18 and earlier. A couple of the bigger reasons for upgrading at this time (IMO) would be:
- if you are using IPTV streams
- if you use mythmusic a lot, it has got a lot of love in recent times
- you want to use mobile clients (like the android apps)

It is probably worth noting (as I understand it) that fixes/0.27 is essentially unsupported as support I believe is given to head and head minus 1. So if you were setting a new backend up you really should be starting at 0.28. But as you are existing fixes/0.27 then you probably really want to be leaving the upgrade to a nice quiet time to handle issues that may arise from moving from QT4 to QT5, possibly php7 from php5, and any old scripts that assume a particular file extension as a couple of examples. Particularly if you don't have the infrastructure to run both in parallel for a period of time.

Otherwise, (again IMO) both fixes/0.27 and fixes/0.28 are excellent releases so I would expect you to be reasonably happy with either at this time.