Releases

Description

This release of Phantom Player primarily focuses on long-term GNU/Linux maintainability, minor bug fixes, and interface improvements.

It includes a complete rewrite of the media player backend, introduces native Wayland support, and is now distributed under the PFSSL v1.0 libre software license.

Major Changes

• Improved player interface, including the addition of Next and Previous buttons.
• Minor UI improvements to the playlist settings dialog.
• Replaced VLC with GStreamer for the following reasons:
  • To provide native Wayland support.
  • To prepare for migration to GTK4, as changes to the windowing system (notably the removal of X11 window IDs) are not compatible with VLC 3.
  • To enable the license transition. The only third-party-owned file in the project was GtkVLC.py, licensed under GPLv3. Removing this dependency made it possible to relicense the project under PFSSL v1.0.
• Added support for Fedora and python3-file-magic.
• Partial FreeBSD support remains available, though the current version is affected by freezing issues under some conditions.
• Improved cross-platform compatibility through better path normalization.
• Improved desktop entries and Open With integration.
• And more...