Released on March 19th. Please add it to the tree. Link to Announcement + ChangeLog in URL field Thanks in advance :>
The beta fixes an awful lot of bugs, so a version bump would be nice :)
I tried it and it didn't manage to bring up my existing collection - rather, it couldn't start. amarok-9999 currently works better than that, we should definitely wait for the next beta.
I've added a testing 2.4.0.90 ebuild to the tree. It currently fails to start for me complaining about not finding any collection plugins.
It did that when I made a 2.4.0.90 ebuild myself, by just renaming the previous ebuild. I assumed it was some configuration/path that had changed between previous versions and this one, so I just gave up and installed amarok-9999 instead (which does not make a fuss). Maybe something needs to be changed in the ebuild? Either that or the beta is shipping with a rather impressive bug...
I had forgot that the amarok-2.4.0.90 tarball was broken and caused this issue. I've now applied the upstream patch to fix the plugin detection at startup.
Committed to the tree.