Marble 1.2 RC 1 (1.1.90) is now available in extras-devel for testing.

Changes compared to Marble 1.1.1:

Features:

• Bookmark Manager (available from the main menu)
• Offline Address Search (available from the Go To.. dialog from the main menu)
• Sharp texture maps
• Tracks can be loaded directly in the Tracking dialog
• Fullscreen mode (available from the map context menu)
• Voice guidance improvements

Performance:

• Texture map rendering is noticable faster
• Opening of very large routes is much faster
• Placemark rendering is faster
• Routing, more specifically guidance mode, is much faster for very large routes
• Guidance mode now uses lazy recentering to save some battery power

Known Issues:

• The N900's main volume settings are ignored in voice guidance. This seems to be a bug in phonon.
• ogg-support from extras-testing and extras-devel breaks voice guidance. Try to avoid that version if possible. If you experience this problem (no playback of voice guidance commands despite a speaker installed and configured), please vote for this bug.

Note that you need to install (or upgrade) monav offline routing maps to get databases for offline address search.

Please report bugs in our bugtracker or here. Happy testing

A default english speaker for voice guidance -- the "Voice of Marble" -- will be included in the final packages. Please participate in the contest such that we can offer a wide variety of speakers for download. The speaker files will be released CC By-SA 3.0. We'll offer them not only in Marble's format, but also in TomTom format for usage on such devices. Other applications could also easily use the files.