Icecast 2.1 11/04/2004 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ****New features for 2.1 (in no particular order):**** -Listener Authentication- Icecast now supports listener authentication. This provides a mechanism for creating/maintaining users and passwords for listeners. Currently, we only have implemented a simple, file-based storage for users and passwords. New authenticators are on the horizon (such as URL-based or possibly MySQL based) New admin pages were also added for the maintenance of users/passwords. Please check the docs for a more detailed description of this new feature. -Multi-Level Fallbacks- Multi-level fallbacks allow for specifications of a series of fallback mounts that you could use, for instance, to set up a series of progressively lower bitrate streams that would be cascaded through. For instance, a modem user would connect to the highest bitrate stream, and then could be cascaded down to a progressively lower stream until they reach a value they can handle. -Burst-On-Connect- This is an new, optional config setting which will send a initial burst of data to connecting listeners. This has the effect of reducing (significantly) the startup buffer latency from the end-user perspective. This option is enabled by default. ****New Enhancements for 2.1**** -Update to admin interface- This interface has been cleaned up quite a bit and made a bit nicer. -Rewrite of the YP listing code- The icecast yp code has received a complete overhaul by karl, and it's a much more stable and failure-resistant implementation. -Lots and lots of bugs fixed- Check the ChangeLog for a complete list of these... ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2003-10-12 Added documentation 2003-04-23 Support aliases 2003-03-09 Support listening on multiple sockets. 2003-03-08 Support for shoutcast source protocol added. 2003-03-08 Started implementing generic admin interface. Supports (so far): - dynamic configuration of mount fallbacks /admin/fallbacks?mount=/mount&fallback=/fallback - setting of mp3 metadata /admin/metadata?mount=/mount&mode=updinfo&song=New%20Title - dumping raw xml stats /admin/rawstats - listing all connected clients on a mountpoint: /admin/listclients?mount=/mountname 2003-03-05 Implemented the ability to reread the config file on SIGHUP. For now, this does not affect configuration for currently running sources (only new sources and global parameters like max-listeners) 2003-03-02 More features: -- per mountpoint listener maxima -- static configuration of mountpoint fallbacks -- stream dumping (write incoming stream to disk) 2003-02-27 Fix log buffering on win32 - previously, logs were never flushed, so they only got output every few tens or hundreds of lines. 2003-02-27 Support new icy-audio-info header, to communicate various parameters to clients and yp servers, including sample rate, quality, channels, bitrate 2003-02-25 Full support for relaying mp3 metadata (if turned on in config file) 2003-02-25 Allow configuration of maximum client queue length (in bytes) 2003-02-14 Finished full IPv6 support. 2003-02-12 Allow configuring local mountpoint seperately from remote mountpoint for relays 2003-02-12 Per mountpoint usernames and passwords (for sources) 2003-02-11 Now that it's been officially assigned, use application/ogg instead of application/x-ogg 2003-02-07 Allow relaying of mp3 streams from icecast 1.x and shoutcast 2003-02-07 Added ability to configure individual relays (rather than just all streams from a single server). 2003-02-03 Added support for YP directory services listings are only used by the yp listing routines 2003-02-03 Support command line parameter -b to run in the background (not supported on win32) 2002-12-31 Implement configurable mountpoint fallbacks (on source exit, clients are transferred to another mountpoint automatically, without disconnecting them) 2002-12-31 Implemented full mp3 metadata support. (older stuff is missing from here)