Welcome to libburnia project

News

* Sat Jul 21 2012 Release 1.2.4 is ready on release page.  libburn and  libisofs got some rarely occuring bugs fixed. libisofs learned to produce HFS+ metadata and Apple Partition Map. The GPT and APM capabilities of isohybrid options --efi and --mac have been implemented.  http://files.libburnia-project.org/releases/libisoburn-1.2.4.tar.gz libisoburn] and xorriso make use of these features.

* Mon Apr 02 2012 Release 1.2.2 is ready on release page. The handling of intentional deviations from ECMA-119 specifications has been improved in  libisofs.  libisoburn and xorriso now make use of these improvements. Some rarely occuring bugs have been fixed. Small refinements were made in  libburn.

* Mon Aug 1 2011 we celebrate 5 years of libburnia project.

* Fri May 06 2011 The  Debian CD Team has switched over to xorriso for GNU/Linux on all architectures except powerpc. On i386 and amd64, the first volumes of the ISO image sets, the  daily, and the  weekly images can boot from optical media and from USB stick. They make use of the partition offset feature.

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 GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris. It is base of the  GNU xorriso package.

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 unstable 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.

DOCUMENTATION

Frequently Asked Questions

API Documentation - Libburn -  C API - introduction

API Documentation - Libisofs -  C API - introduction

API Documentation - Libisoburn -  C API - introduction

README (from SVN) - toplevel README

CONTRIBUTION

We welcome and consider any sorts of contribution although not all can be accepted, of course. If you want to contribute to libburnia project development, then report experiences, propose new features, or post patches for discussion on our  general mailing list.

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.

* Wed Aug 12 2009 The ticket system has been closed due to our inability to curb spam submissions. Please send mails to the  libburn-hackers mailing list instead of posting tickets.

IRC

Mario Đanić can be reached on #libburn channel on  Freenode.

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.danic [at] gmail [dot] com, 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