Thanks, Frank. Yes, those packages have been built with 6.1 toolchains and I have been running a 6.1-compiled TVH on my 6.1 evansport system happily for a couple of months now. You don't have to upgrade because of that though. It is still possible to compile the new TVH packages with 5.2 toolchains too.
IF ( ! ) you want to upgrade, please be aware that you cannot upgrade from a tvheadend-testing to a tvheadend (release) package. These packages have separate configurations. NEVER run a testing and a release package in parallel. Whatever you do, back up your old configuration (before you upgrade your DSM AND before you upgrade TVH, just to be sure). Otherwise...
- If you are running a testing package now, and you want to install a release package after the upgrade, you will have to start configuring from scratch
- If you are running an old release package, upgrade your DSM first and then upgrade TVH with a new release package. However, depending on how old your old release package is, you might still run into hicups. If that happens, you are most likely better off starting a clean configuration from scratch, too.
So, high likelihood, you will have to start over configuration-wise. Anyways, you can run the recent TVH packages on DSM 6.1+, so to that extent, upgrading at least is an option again...