Icecast 2 Changes

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Version 2.4.0

New Features

• Support for Ogg Opus streams
• Support for WebM streams
• HTTP 1.1 PUT support for source connections. Deprecating SOURCE method.
• Default mount. - This allows you to define a global set of defaults for ALL mounts. This way you can use e.g. url-auth for sources and or listeners also for dynamically generated mounts.
• Web interface redone -
  • Web output properly redone, credit to ePirat.
  • Added <audio> element for supported audio streams.
  • Now validates completely as XHTML1.0 strict.
  • Also improves rendering on mobile devices.
• Added basic JSON API (/status-json.xsl) based on a xml2json template by Doeke Zanstra (see xml2json.xslt). Output is roughly limited to data also visible through status.xsl.
• Send charset in HTTP headers for everything, excluding file-serv and streams.
• Allow (standard strftime(3)) %x codes in <dump-file>. Disabled for win32.
• Added stream_start_iso8601, server_start_iso8601 to statitics. ISO8601 compliante timestamps for statistics. Should make usage in e.g. JSON much easier. Added as new variables to avoid breaking backwards compatibility.
• Now compiles for win32 using mingw
• Added options "headers" and "header_prefix" to URL based listener auth.
• Updated listener_remove handler, added ip= and agent=,
• Allow full URLs to be returned by the master server.

Fixes

• SECURITY FIX - Override supplementary groups if is used
• Fixes for some race conditions
• Dropped debian packaging directory as debian use their own.
• Send proper HTTP headers in responses to clients.
• corrected Content-Length: header in admin (raw) requests. Thanks to paluh for reporting.
• Escape log entries in access log
• Fixed a memory leak. Lost headers of stream because of wrong ref counter in associated refbuf objects.
• avoid memory leak in _parse_mount() when "type"-attribute is set
• Updated web interface to be XHTML compliant.
• Removed status2.xsl from release. It was only a broken example file anyway.

Known issues

• Will crash if certain config tags are left empty.

Version 2.3

New Features

Streaming support for ogg speex, ogg flac, ogg midi

intro file support - per mount settable

on-demand relays, global and per-relay settable

fallback to file, extends on the intro file handling.

new mount-level settings

1. public, type/subtype, genre settings, stream description,
2. stream url, stream name, bitrate (override what is sent from the source client)
3. mp3 metadata interval
4. on-[dis]connect scripts can be stated per-mount, invoked at source start/stop and take 1 arg which is the mountpoint.

New URL listener authenticator .included is an example php-based application that can be used in conjunction with the url authenticator to manage a simple subscription-based broadcast.

HTPasswd authenticator uses in-memory structures now.

On demand files now can be fed through an authenticator

Update to admin/web xslt interface

Fixes

real/helix works

win32 access log correct

stats client is stable now (curl -X STATS http://admin@host:port/)

show mountpoints on stats that are inactive but have an active fallback

more updates over HUP possible