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Key New Features
Add HTTP Live Streaming playback [099b6cce03] and recorder [17c164a]. Check the HLS Manual Page
Added recording rule templates [71c65b]. Note that mythweb doesn't take advantage of the templating feature.
Themers (and power users) are now able to replace schedule options with new widgits. Themes, for example, can place fewer choices on the initial schedule editor screen (allowing access to less used options by pressing M(enu). Give Steppes a try to see this. See [d418754].
Add duplicate checking and limited matching optimizations and other scheduler related changes. See the commit for details on this change. [cbb8eb1] Fixes #10533
Add Ice- and Shoutcast radio stream playback to MythMusic [cdde562]
Major Changes
Conversion of internal times to UTC. Stored times will be converted by the database update mechanism. See UTC for a complete list of changes. This should be of interest to daylight savings time users.
Mythlogserver, a new program for handling all logging requests.
HTTP Live Streaming support added to AirPlay
Complete rewrite of RAOP server, used for Airtunes/AirPlay.
The format of config.xml has changed and mysql.txt is no longer used. Conversion to the new format is automatic. An example of the new format is here: here:
Allow themes to customize caption/subtitle formatting [f13eeb0].
Make the subtitle zoom factor into a live setting [0089f7d].
Add rsOtherTuning and rsOtherRecording recording statuses [090f847]
Added TOGGLESHUFFLE/TOGGLEREPEAT keybindings [fa9edd6]
--parse-video-filename for mythutil [1debfc6]
Prerequisite Changes
MySQL must have time zone tables added, see MySQL Time Zone Tables.
Added support libraries/prerequisites
libuuid (uuid-dev) for those building from source.
Removed support libraries/prerequisites

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Special Notices & Instructions
The conversion to UTC requires significant changes to the database, and may be problematic for some users. MythTV will automatically attempt to perform a database backup before any schema update, storing the dump to the current user's home directory, or any storage path MythTV has been informed of, so that if anything goes wrong in the process, the database can be rolled back to the previous functional state. If MythTV cannot find anywhere with write access to store the backup, it will proceed with the update anyway, so users may want to perform their own periodic backups just to be safe. Refer to Database_Backup_and_Restore#Quick_Start for more information.
The environmental variable MYTHTV_AIRPLAY is no longer required (GUI added, see: AirTunes/AirPlay) [11ea7ef].
User scripts/tools that depended on mysql.txt should be reviewed. Since MythTV no longer uses mysql.txt, it's no longer updated. Scripts/tools could stop working.
MythTV System Events and User Jobs should be checked for compatibility with UTC. Recording file names, for example, are now saved with the time component in UTC. %STARTTIME% is local time, use %STARTTIMEUTC% to access the file. Better option is to use the %FILE% tag to directly give the filename, rather than guessing from the channel ID and timestamp.
Examine all existing custom recording rules. Any references to tables with columns that were converted to UTC must be adjusted. For example: A rule with: HOUR(program.endtime) < 22 must be changed to HOUR(CONVERT_TZ(program.endtime, 'UTC', 'SYSTEM')) < 22. Note that dates such as originalairdate do not factor in timezone offsets, and will be the local date.
The (broken) "Expire in deleted order" setting has been removed [928135e].
Support for CEA-608 teletext captions will be removed in 0.27. Using mythfrontend --verbose general logging, a "DEPRECATED_608_TELETEXT" message will appear in the logs of affected users. Refs #10786, [7b1aef8], [44f5414].
Logging Issues:
Users referencing logfiles (e.g. those created by using --logpath) will note that the timestamp portion of the filename is now in UTC [28d9324].
Users of logrotate should see 0.26 specific instructions in Logrotate All Applications.
Users of --syslog and Simple rsyslog Configuration should see the new 0.26 section.
Wunderground scripts now use the REST API. All users who wish to use the wunderground weather source must sign up for an API key. Commit [e4c181a] is required reading for these users.
The -l option for mythshutdown has been removed. Use --lock [87eb634].
For users building from source:
Video decoders are enabled by default. Disable options are now available. [f60a706], Fixes #10813.
mythffplay users, add --enable-sdl when running configure [fb90f73].
See [2b3bd21] for important instructions re: Revert [6fb8692] to not use aacenc.c AAC encoder by default.