NEWS
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-0.5.7 (to be announced) "semantic density"
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+------------------------------------------------
+0.6.1 (to be announced) "hyperbolic correlation"
+------------------------------------------------
+
+- The contents of overview.pdf have been integrated into the user
+ manual.
+- The doxygen source browser has been disabled temporarily. The
+ API reference is still online, though.
+- Overhaul of the source code documentation.
+
+-------------------------------
+0.6.0 (2017-04-28) "fuzzy flux"
+-------------------------------
+
+The highlights of this release are the conversion of all option parsers
+to the lopsub library and the improved AAC support. But there are
+many other user-visible changes all over the place. Also a lot of
+old cruft has been removed, leading to incompatible changes. Hence
+the new major version number.
+
+- Support for Mac OS X has been removed.
+- On Linux systems, glibc-2.17 or newer is required to build the
+ source tree.
+- Support for RSA public keys in ASN format (as generated by openssl
+ genrsa) has been removed. These keys have been deprecated since
+ 2011, so users should have long switched to keys generated with
+ ssh-keygen(1).
+- If libgcrypt is used as the crypto library, we now require version
+ 1.5.0 (released in 2011) or later.
+- The insecure RC4 stream cipher has been removed. It was superseded
+ by aes_ctr128 three years ago but the RC4 code had been kept for
+ backwards compatibility.
+- On Linux, abstract unix domain sockets are used unconditionally.
+- The "install" target no longer strips executables, the new
+ install-strip target can be used to get the old behaviour.
+- The clean targets have been renamed: clean2 is gone, and the new
+ mostlyclean removes only the executables and object files.
+- New target: check (identical to test).
+- The DESTDIR make variable is honored to prepend a path to the
+ installation directory. This feature is orthogonal to the --prefix
+ option to configure.
+- Minor WMA cleanups.
+- The aac audio format handler has been rewritten to use the mp4ff library.
+ See the manual for how to install the library on your system.
+- New status item: max_chunk_size. The value is stored in a previously
+ unused field of the afhi object of the aft table. Although backwards
+ compatible, users are encouraged to re-add m4a files to populate
+ the new field.
+- No more chunk tables for aac. Chunk boundaries are determined
+ dynamically at stream time.
+- Release and master branch tarballs are now compressed with xz rather
+ than bzip2.
+- The lopsub package is required to install the paraslash package.
+ Gengetopt is no longer needed.
+- make dep is gone. Dependencies have been created automatically for
+ a long time and it was never necessary to run make dep manually.
+- para_gui lost its --timeout option.
+- Most manual pages have been extended to include an overall
+ description of the command.
+- The --stream-delay option of para_audiod has been removed. It had
+ been a no-op for many years.
+- The deprecated --path option of the server ls command has been
+ removed. The command now prints full paths by default, making
+ --full-path a no-op. Hence --full-path has been depreacted and is
+ scheduled for removal in v0.6.1.
+- It is now possible to use 'CFLAGS' to override the default compiler
+ options.
+- para_fade has been renamed to para_mixer. The four modes of operation
+ (set, fade, snooze, sleep) are implemented as subcommands of the
+ new program.
+- The sleep subcommand of para_mixer (former sleep mode of para_fade)
+ lost its --wake-hour and --wake-min options in favor of the new
+ --wake-time option which also accepts relative wakeup times like
+ "+9:30".
+- The new --fade-exponent option of para_mixer allows for non-linear
+ channel fading.
+- The new logo.
+
+Downloads:
+[tarball](./releases/paraslash-0.6.0.tar.xz),
+[signature](./releases/paraslash-0.6.0.tar.xz.asc)
+
+-------------------------------------
+0.5.7 (2016-12-31) "semantic density"
+-------------------------------------
+
+Mostly a bug fix release, and a bunch of internal improvements.
+The only user-visible changes are the sanity checks for the touch
+command and the new options to the ls command.
+
- Speedup of the base64 decoder.
- One of the two source browsers has been removed from the web pages.
The doxygen API reference still contains an HTML version of each
source file.
- Two race conditions in para_server have been fixed.
+- ls -p is now deprecated in favor of -F or -b. See the help text of
+ the ls command for details.
+- The openssl code has been adjusted to work also with openssl-1.1.
+- The wma decoder and audio format handler now correctly decodes
+ files with unusual block sizes.
+- We now compile with -Wformat-signedness if possible.
+- The touch command now refuses to set an invalid image or lyrics ID.
+- New section on contributing for the user manual.
+- Major simplification of the error subsystem.
-Download: [tarball](./releases/paraslash-git.tar.bz2)
+Downloads:
+[tarball](./releases/paraslash-0.5.7.tar.bz2),
+[signature](./releases/paraslash-0.5.7.tar.bz2.asc)
+
+-------------------------------------------
+0.4.14 (2016-12-31) "branching oscillation"
+-------------------------------------------
+
+Many fixes for nasty bugs have accumulated over the years since 0.4.13
+was released in 2013. This release contains all of them. It is the
+last v0.4.x release, so v0.4.x is now end of life. The maint branch
+of the git repository has been forwarded to v0.5.7 and will start to
+receive important fixes for 0.5.x, which is now in maintenance mode.
+
+- Fix for the "double encryption bug" with gcrypt, which caused
+ garbage to be sent to stat clients.
+- The "prev" command of para_play now works as expected.
+- Invalid parameters for the begin and end chunk no longer cause
+ the afh receiver of para_recv to segfault.
+- A fix for an assertion that triggered in the FEC slice setup code.
+- Closing the terminal with a running para_gui causes the process to
+ die, rather than using 100% of CPU time.
+- para_gui no longer shows stale information about the previous
+ audio file.
+- A fix for a bug in the fec decoder which caused aborts if the buffer
+ pool filled up.
+- The assertion in the buffer tree code no longer triggers.
+- The "afs_event: table moods, event 0: key already exists in rbtree"
+ error no longer occurs on attribute changes.
+- A NULL pointer dereference in com_sender() has been fixed.
+- The -i option of lsatt works as advertised.
+- Various fixes for the build system.
+
+Downloads:
+[tarball](./releases/paraslash-0.4.14.tar.bz2),
+[signature](./releases/paraslash-0.4.14.tar.bz2.asc)
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0.5.6 (2016-07-10) "cascading gradient"
- para_gui no longer reports 100% playing time at the stream start.
- Opus cleanups.
+Downloads:
[tarball](./releases/paraslash-0.5.6.tar.bz2),
[signature](./releases/paraslash-0.5.6.tar.bz2.asc)
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