NEWS
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-current master branch
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+---------------------------------------------
+0.7.4 (to be announced) "genetic contraction"
+---------------------------------------------
+
+Downloads:
+[tarball](./releases/paraslash-git.tar.xz)
+
+-----------------------------------------
+0.7.3 (2024-03-12) "weighted correctness"
+-----------------------------------------
+
+The highlight of this release is the new "ls --admissible=m/foo"
+feature described below. Other user-visible changes include minor
+additions to the "ls" and "select" server commands. The release also
+includes a fair number of cleanups for the crypto code and the file
+descriptor utilities, both without visible effects. Old ssh keys
+and outdated openssl library versions are now deprecated and cause
+warnings.
+
+- Old style PEM keys are now deprecated. They still work but their
+ use results in a run-time warning. The removal of PEM key support is
+ scheduled for paraslash-0.8.0.
+- Version 1.0 of the openssl library has been deprecated. A warning
+ is printed at compile-time on systems which have this outdated version
+ because it will no longer be supported once paraslash-0.8.0 comes out.
+- A spring cleanup for the senescent code in fd.c.
+- The --admissible option of the ls command now takes an optional
+ argument. When invoked like --admissible=m/foo, only files which are
+ admissible with respect to mood foo are listed.
+- The select server command is now quiet by default, The new --verbose
+ option can be used to show information about the newly loaded mood
+ or playlist.
+- The ls server command gained the --limit option to force a limit
+ on the number of files listed.
+- Cleanup of the openssl-specific code.
+
+Downloads:
+[tarball](./releases/paraslash-0.7.3.tar.xz),
+[signature](./releases/paraslash-0.7.3.tar.xz.asc)
+
+-------------------------------------
+0.7.2 (2023-03-08) "optical friction"
+-------------------------------------
+
+The improved error reporting of afs commands and the two new options
+for the sleep subcommand of para_mixer are the most prominent features
+of this minor release. The bulk of the changes are cleanups of the
+afs and net subsystems, which should both have no user-visible impact.
+
+- A major cleanup of the audio file selector.
+- The client no longer prints error messages from afs commands to
+ stdout but to stderr.
+- 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.
+- The openssl specific code now employs the EVP API to compute hashes.
+ It should compile without warnings against openssl-3.
+- The deprecated syntax for specifying negative offsets in the argument
+ to the "ff" server command has been removed.
+
+Downloads:
+[tarball](./releases/paraslash-0.7.2.tar.xz),
+[signature](./releases/paraslash-0.7.2.tar.xz.asc)
+
+--------------------------------------
+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.
+- 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)
+
+--------------------------------------
+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.
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)
+
+---------------------------------------
+0.5.9 (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"
+---------------------------------------
+
+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)
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0.6.0 (2017-04-28) "fuzzy flux"
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