NEWS
====
+----------------------------------------------
+0.6.3 (to be announced) "generalized activity"
+----------------------------------------------
+
+- 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.
+
+
+--------------------------------------
+0.6.2 (2018-06-30) "elastic diversity"
+--------------------------------------
+
+The main new feature of this release is the --listen-address option
+for para_server and para_audiod. But there are also a large number of
+small improvements and bug fixes all over the place. The user-visible
+changes include
+
+- para_gui no longer waits up to one second to update the screen when
+ the geometry of the terminal changes.
+- Minor documentation improvements.
+- Improvements to the crypto subsystem.
+- The server subcommand "task" has been deprecated. It still works,
+ but prints nothing. It will be removed in the next major release.
+- Server log output is now serialized, avoiding issues with partial
+ lines.
+- It is now possible to switch to a different afs database by changing
+ the server configuration and sending SIGHUP to the server process.
+- New server options: --listen--address, --http-listen-address and
+ --dccp-listen-address. These options restrict the set of listening
+ addresses of the TCP and DCCP sockets of the server process.
+- The help commands of server, audiod, play now support --long. By default,
+ the short help is shown.
+- The code which merges the command line options with the config file
+ options has been consolidated.
+- If the current audio file is renamed, the status items are now updated
+ accordingly.
+- After the server process received SIGHUP, changes to the current audio
+ file did not trigger an update of the status items. This has been fixed.
+
+Downloads:
+[tarball](./releases/paraslash-0.6.2.tar.xz),
+[signature](./releases/paraslash-0.6.2.tar.xz.asc)
+
+----------------------------------------
+0.6.1 (2017-09-23) "segmented iteration"
+----------------------------------------
+
+The highlight of this release is the version 2 mood parser. But there
+is a lot more than that, as summarized in the list below. And of
+course we have many small usability improvements and bug fixes not
+mentioned here.
+
+- A more intuitive syntax for moods ("version 2 moods"). The
+ traditional version 1 moods are still supported but are deprecated
+ now. Removal of the version 1 mood parser is scheduled for the next
+ major release.
+- Flex and bison are now required to build para_server.
+- New sort order for the ls command: -s=h sorts the ls output by hash
+ value of the audio file.
+- autogen.sh now runs the test suite after a successful build.
+- The contents of overview.pdf have been integrated into the user
+ manual.
+- Fixed sized audio format headers for ogg/opus streams.
+- The doxygen source browser has been disabled temporarily. The
+ API reference is still online, though.
+- Overhaul of the source code documentation.
+- The deprecated --full-path option of the ls command has been
+ removed. It was a no-op since 0.6.0.
+- The wma decoder has been cleaned up and its bitstream API made
+ more robust.
+- The image/lyrics ID status items of the current audio file are now
+ updated on changes. This affects para_gui, which used to report the
+ old value until EOF.
+
+Downloads:
+[tarball](./releases/paraslash-0.6.1.tar.xz),
+[signature](./releases/paraslash-0.6.1.tar.xz.asc)
+
+---------------------------------------
+0.5.8 (2017-09-23) "branching parabola"
+---------------------------------------
+
+A couple of fixes for serious old bugs have accummulated in the maint
+branch since paraslash-0.5.7 was released nine months ago. So here
+is another 0.5.x release. As usual, all commits in the maint branch
+have been merged into master, so the upcoming paraslash-0.6.1 also
+contains them. For details see the git log.
+
+Downloads:
+[tarball](./releases/paraslash-0.5.8.tar.bz2),
+[signature](./releases/paraslash-0.5.8.tar.bz2.asc)
+
+-------------------------------
+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
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