X-Git-Url: http://git.tuebingen.mpg.de/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS.md;h=539f75768c6b99ef6bbbff4074e8fd309692b5c4;hb=9228213e72bbcdaf42665f51c633af6c4ccc78bf;hp=a31aeaf18e04b32b496f47cea04988fd74f5536f;hpb=88bf6848d1c58ad0e0d9b62d7da2a81cea5bf0ff;p=paraslash.git diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md index a31aeaf1..539f7576 100644 --- a/NEWS.md +++ b/NEWS.md @@ -1,10 +1,72 @@ NEWS ==== ---------------------------------------- -0.7.0 (to be announced) "seismic orbit" ---------------------------------------- +------------------------------------------ +0.7.2 (to be announced) "optical friction" +------------------------------------------ + +- The sleep subcommand of para_mixer gained two options to control + the startup mood and the time period before fade-out starts. A bunch + of further improvements for this subcommand went in as well. +- Minor cleanup of the net subsystem. + +Downloads: +[tarball](./releases/paraslash-git.tar.xz) +-------------------------------------- +0.7.1 (2022-10-03) "digital spindrift" +-------------------------------------- + +The two new ll commands and the internal mp4ff library are the most +user-visible changes of this release. On top of that there are two +core changes which aim to improve the robustness of the code but which +are otherwise invisible: the switch from select(2) to poll(2) and the +revised memory allocation API which checks for integer overflows. The +release also comes with a slight change to the build system and the +usual mix of bug fixes and minor improvements not mentioned here. + +- The autogen.sh script now only creates the autoconf specific files + but no longer runs configure, make and the test suite. +- A stripped down copy of the discontinued libmp4ff library has become + part of the paraslash code base. As a result it is no longer necessary + to install faad from source to get support for aac/m4a files. The + faad decoder package must still be installed. +- The log level of the running daemon can now be changed with the + new ll command. It is available for para_server and para_audiod. +- All calls to select(2) have been replaced by calls to poll(2) + to avoid known shortcomings of the select API. +- All allocation functions now check for integer overflow. Since this + requires support from the compiler, the oldest supported gcc version + has been bumped to gcc-5.4 (released in 2015). + +Downloads: +[tarball](./releases/paraslash-0.7.1.tar.xz), +[signature](./releases/paraslash-0.7.1.tar.xz.asc) + +---------------------------------- +0.7.0 (2022-03-12) "seismic orbit" +---------------------------------- + +The major incompatible change which requires to bump the major version +is the switch from sha1 to sha256, see below for details. However, +there are many other improvements, the usual amount of bug fixes and +a couple of new features. + +- Starting with paraslash-0.7.0, the sha256 hash value of each known + audio file is stored in the database while older versions employed the + sha1 hash algorithm which has been considered insecure since 2005 + and should no longer be used today. The switch from sha1 to sha256 + requires users to upgrade their database using the new para_upgrade_db + program, followed by re-adding all files to recompute the hashes. With + this approach all metadata stored in the database (last played date, + num played value, moods, playlists, attributes etc.) are kept. An + simpler alternative is to start over from scratch by running the + "init" command but this will lose these metadata. +- Server and client now hash the session keys with sha256 rather + than sha1 during the initial handshake. This feature is optional and + backwards compatible: old clients can still connect to a new server + (using sha1). Also new clients can connect to an old server (again + using sha1). - The new "duration" keyword of the mood grammar makes it possible to impose a constraint on the duration of the admissible files. - The long deprecated version 1 mood syntax is no longer supported. @@ -15,9 +77,11 @@ NEWS - New option for configure: --enable-ubsan to detect and report undefined behaviour. - The "tasks" server command has been removed. +- The fancy new logo and a minor overhaul of the web pages. Downloads: -[tarball](./releases/paraslash-git.tar.xz) +[tarball](./releases/paraslash-0.7.0.tar.xz), +[signature](./releases/paraslash-0.7.0.tar.xz.asc) -------------------------------------- 0.6.4 (2021-11-04) "fuzzy calibration" @@ -168,6 +232,23 @@ Downloads: [tarball](./releases/paraslash-0.6.1.tar.xz), [signature](./releases/paraslash-0.6.1.tar.xz.asc) +--------------------------------------- +0.5.9 (2021-11-04) "reversed dimension" +--------------------------------------- +This release contains a few important fixes which have accumulated in +the maint branch. The paraslash-0.5.x series has now reached its end +of life and will no longer be supported. All users should upgrade to +a more recent version at this point. + +- Fix an issue with the bash completion script. +- Initialize the random seed also when using libgrypt. +- Fix some compiler warnings in the resample filter +- Don't return spurious errors from the ff server command. + +Downloads: +[tarball](./releases/paraslash-0.5.9.tar.bz2), +[signature](./releases/paraslash-0.5.9.tar.bz2.asc) + --------------------------------------- 0.5.8 (2017-09-23) "branching parabola" ---------------------------------------