Welcome to libburnia project

News

* Sun Jun 28 2009 libisoburn/xorriso is released as version 0.4.0. This release can record and restore hard link relations of files. Performance of data reading has been improved. Option -find now supports logical operators with its tests. Some rarely occuring bugs have been fixed.

* Sun May 31 2009 Version 0.6.20 of libisofs can record hard link relations in ISO images and offers support with restoring them to disk. Current Linux kernels will mount images with such hard links but will attribute a unique inode number to each file.

* Fri May 8 2009 A new version 0.6.6 of libburn /cdrskin is ready on releases page. This release fixes a bug with aborting on broken output pipe and a bug with device scan on FreeBSD.

ABOUT

libburnia is a project for reading, mastering and writing optical discs. Currently it is comprised of libraries named libisofs, libburn, libisoburn, a cdrecord emulator named cdrskin, and an integrated multi-session tool named xorriso. The software runs on Linux and FreeBSD.

LICENCE

The source code for the libburnia project is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License.

SOURCE CODE

The current release tarballs are available at Releases Page.

The project lives in part in a subversion repository hosted on http://svn.libburnia-project.org and in part in a bzr repository hosted at launchpad. You can check-out the latest versions using:

svn co http://svn.libburnia-project.org/libburn/trunk libburn
bzr branch lp:~libburnia-team/libisofs/scdbackup libisofs
svn co http://svn.libburnia-project.org/libisoburn/trunk libisoburn

For building the libraries and binaries you will need autotools of at least version 1.7.

CONTRIBUTION

We welcome any sorts of contribution. If you would like to contribute to libburnia project development, please consider to post patches for discussion to our ticket system. You are encouraged to read our development guide before contributing/submiting patches. Please use your e-mail address when using ticket system unless you have a trac account.

MAILING LISTS

We run mailing lists for various purposes.

libburn-hackers - Our primary list for general development discussion. Feel free to ask for support here.

libburn-cutters - A list for people who use cd burning/mastering software which use libburn. For general cd burning discussion go here. Feel free to post ideas for discussion here too.

libburn-announcements - Low-traffic announcement list. Read-only list. Subscribe if you're a packager/maintainer.

libburn-tickets All the ticket (aka bug) activity is forwarded here. Read-only list. Primarly meant for developers.

IRC

Libburnia developers can be reached on #libburn channel on Freenode.

DOCUMENTATION

API Documentation - Libburn - C API - introduction

API Documentation - Libisofs - C API - introduction

API Documentation - Libisoburn - C API - introduction

README (from SVN) - toplevel README

DONATIONS

Any donations made to the libburnia project would greatly assist its progress by helping us to acquire drives and media. If you would like to donate, please mail us: mario [at] libburnia-project [dot] org, Cc: scdbackup [at] gmx [dot] net.

DEVELOPERS

Mario Đanić - mario [at] libburnia-project [dot] org - Founder & developer

Vreixo Formoso Lopes - metalpain2002 [at] yahoo [dot] - developer

Thomas Schmitt - scdbackup [at] gmx [dot] net - developer