NEWS
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-0.6.3 (to be announced) "generalized activity"
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+0.7.1 (to be announced) "digital spindrift"
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+
+[tarball](./releases/paraslash-git.tar.xz)
+
+----------------------------------
+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)
+
+--------------------------------------
+0.6.4 (2021-11-04) "fuzzy calibration"
+--------------------------------------
+
+This point release contains a fair number of fixes but no new features.
+This marks the end of the 0.6 development, although paraslash-0.6 will
+still be supported for some time and subsequent maintenance releases
+may follow.
+
+- The udp sender no longer crashes when empty chunks are encountered.
+- Fix a double-free bug in the exit path of the server.
+- The "jmp" command now errors out when given a negative percentage.
+- A fix for a bug in para_afh which triggered on the attempt to modify
+ the tags of an invalid mp4 file.
+- A memory leak in para_afh has been fixed.
+- The udp sender no longer sends multiple EOF packets.
+- Some gcc warnings have been silenced.
+- Minor log level adjustments and documentation improvements.
+
+Downloads:
+[tarball](./releases/paraslash-0.6.4.tar.xz),
+[signature](./releases/paraslash-0.6.4.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)
+
+----------------------------------------
+0.6.3 (2021-02-18) "generalized activity"
+-----------------------------------------
+
+It has been a while since the last release, but paraslash-0.6.3
+finally has arrived. It contains a fair number of improvements,
+features and fixes all over the place.
- The ff command now accepts a negative argument to instruct the
virtual streaming system to jump backwards in the current audio
stream. The old syntax (e.g., "ff 30-") is still supported but it
is deprecated and no longer documented. The compatibility code is
sheduled for removal after 0.7.0.
+- para_afh: New option: --preserve to reset the modification time to
+ the value of the original file after meta data modification.
+- Overhaul of the compress filter code. The refined algorithm should
+ reduce clipping. The meaning of --aggressiveness has changed, see the
+ updated and extended documentation of the compress filter for details.
+- Cleanup of the audio format handler code.
+- We now build the tree using the .ONESHELL feature of GNU make,
+ which results in a significant speedup.
+- Two robustness fixes for FreeBSD.
+- para_client now supports RFC4716 private keys as generated with
+ ssh-keygen -m RFC4716. In fact, this key format has been made the
+ default, and the former PEM keys will be depreciated at some point.
+- The ogg audio format handlers learned to detect holes and now report
+ the correct duration also if ogg pages are missing in the file. This
+ affects ogg/vorbis ogg/speex and ogg/opus.
+- Robustness improvements for para_mixer.
+- A fix for an old bug that could cause the server to crash or report
+ garbage in its status output.
+- New para_play option: --end-of-playlist
+- Streaming m4a files over udp has been improved.
+
+Downloads:
+[tarball](./releases/paraslash-0.6.3.tar.xz),
+[signature](./releases/paraslash-0.6.3.tar.xz.asc)
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0.6.2 (2018-06-30) "elastic diversity"
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