NEWS
====
+------------------------------------------
+0.7.2 (to be announced) "optical friction"
+------------------------------------------
+
+- Minor cleanup of the net subsystem.
+
+Downloads:
+[tarball](./releases/paraslash-git.tar.xz)
+
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+0.7.1 (2022-10-03) "digital spindrift"
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+
+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+- All calls to select(2) have been replaced by calls to poll(2)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.
+- Paraslash writers handle early end-of-file more gracefully.
+- The alsa writer no longer warns about spurious underruns.
+- The score formula of the audio file selector has been reworked.
+- Cleanups of the doubly linked lists code.
+- 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-0.7.0.tar.xz),
+[signature](./releases/paraslash-0.7.0.tar.xz.asc)
+
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0.6.4 (2021-11-04) "fuzzy calibration"
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