Download Mangler 1.0 release candidate 1

A VoIP application is often used to maintain good contact with your teammates while playing online games. ventrilo is one of these applications alongside Teamspeak, and is available for Windows and Mac OS X. Although the original developers have stated that they have been working on a Ventrilo client for Linux since 2005, it has not been released to this day. Eric Kilfoil and Daniel Sloof are therefore in September of this year started developing Mangle, an unofficial Ventrilo client for Linux. The first release candidate of version 1.0 was released last Friday, which was released with the following announcement:

Two Month Anniversary Snapshot for 1.0rc1

Two months ago today, I wrote out the beginnings of libventrilo3. It barely worked, and when it did work, all it did was display some hex packet dumps while attempting to connect to a server. The whole thing was about 1000 lines of code and the majority of that was debug code.

Two months, 8,800 lines of code (11,200 if you include the UI definition), and hundreds of hours of staring at network packet dumps later, we have a stable and functional client. And more importantly, we’re about two weeks away from release. Today’s snapshot is Mangler 1.0 release candidate 1.

New features since the previous snapshot include:

• Per-user volume settings (double click a user in the channel list)
• Mouse button push to talk
• Fix all ticking audio in both Speex and GSM (in both directions)
• Added notification sounds for users joining your channel, login, logout, etc. (disable them in Settings -> Audio)
• The server list window is fully implemented
• The ability to set your comment, URL, and your music player text
• And of course, other minor bug fixes.

An additional feature that may squeak into 1.0 is music player integration for showing your current media player’s song as “now playing” in the channel list.

I also want to say thanks to Darryl Grennan (aka x3464) who was the most active person performing QA testing for us. I can’t stress enough that if we don’t know about the bugs and/or it’s not behaving the way you think it should, we need to know about it, especially during this phase.