+++ /dev/null
-NEWS
-====
-
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-current master branch "cascading gradient"
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-
- - para_afh learned to modify meta tags of mp3 wma ogg spx
- opus flac aac files.
- - afs commands propagate error codes to the client.
- - The check command now also checks the attribute table for
- inconsistencies.
- - New -v flag for the version command (print verbose version string)
- - New option --priority for para_server and para_audiod.
-
-
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-0.5.5 (2015-09-20) "magnetic momentum"
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-
-Many new features and a lot of other improvements.
-
- - On Linux systems, local sockets are now created in the
- abstract name space by default. This allows to get rid of
- the socket specials in /var/paraslash.
- - The --user-allow option of para_audiod now accepts also
- usernames rather than only user IDs.
- - New autoconf macros to avoid duplication in configure.ac.
- - Status items (as shown by para_gui) are updated correctly
- when the meta information of the current audio changes.
- - para_server and para_audiod no longer refuse to start in
- the background if no log file is given. Instead, all log
- messages go to /dev/null in this case.
- - Web page cleanup.
- - New syntax for the -l and -s options of the ls command.
- These options should now be specified as -l=v rather than
- -lv, for example. The old syntax still works, but support
- will be dropped in v0.6.0.
-
-Download: ./releases/paraslash-0.5.5.tar.bz2 (tarball)
-./releases/paraslash-0.5.5.tar.bz2.asc (signature)
-
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-0.5.4 (2015-01-23) "exponential alignment"
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-
-Another cleanup and bugfix release.
-
- - New server command: tasks.
- - Minor cleanups to daemon.c.
- - New URLs for home page and git services.
- - Improved error diagnostics for the mvblob commands.
- - New sender subcommand: status.
- - Improved help text for server and afs commands.
- - audiod memory leak fixes.
- - Miscellaneous improvements to the build system.
- - oss_writer improvements.
- - Improved handling of mp3 files with both id3v1 and id3v2 tags.
-
-Downloads: ./releases/paraslash-0.5.4.tar.bz2 (tarball)
-./releases/paraslash-0.5.4.tar.bz2.asc (signature)
-
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-0.5.3 (2014-08-01) "symbolic synchronization"
----------------------------------------------
-
-Not many new features, but lots of fixes and usability improvements.
-
- - para_gui has been converted to use the paraslash scheduler.
- - Various alsa-related fixes, mostly for the raspberry pi.
- - Many scheduler improvements and cleanups.
- - The test suite has been extended to include sanity checks
- for the generated man pages.
- - ao_writer fixes. This writer was in a quite bad shape. Many
- serious bugs have been fixed.
- - new audiod command: version.
- - Minor improvements to the bitstream API.
- - The cpsi command now prints a meaningful error message if
- none of the given patterns matched any audio file.
-
-Downloads: ./releases/paraslash-0.5.3.tar.bz2 (tarball),
-./releases/paraslash-0.5.3.tar.bz2.asc (signature)
-
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-0.5.2 (2014-04-11) "orthogonal interior"
-----------------------------------------
-
-The new sync filter, the AES_CTR128 stream cipher and the overhauled
-network code are the highlights of this release. It also includes a
-fair number of smaller fixes and improvements not mentioned here.
-
- - The new sync filter synchronizes playback between multiple
- clients.
- - Connections between para_server and para_client are now
- encrypted by means of AES rather than RC4 if both sides
- support it. RC4 is still available as a fallback. This
- feature is fully transparent, i.e. no command line options
- are necessary, and a client linked against openssl can
- speak with a server linked against libgcrypt and vice versa.
- - Major cleanup of the networking subsystem.
- - Improvements to para_fade: the new set mode, multi-channel
- initial volumes, better error logging.
- - The man pages of para_audiod, para_filter, para_recv, and
- para_write contain the relevant options for receivers, filters,
- writers. This broke in 0.5.0.
- - ogg/vorbis latency improvements.
- - Improved user manual.
- - Minor fixes to avoid clang warnings.
-
-Downloads: ./releases/paraslash-0.5.2.tar.bz2 (tarball),
-./releases/paraslash-0.5.2.tar.bz2.asc (signature)
-
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-0.5.1 (2013-12-20) "temporary implication"
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-
-Lots of fixes and improvements all over the place, and a major overhaul
-of the build system.
-
- - Audiod improvements and fixes.
- - Buffer tree robustness improvements.
- - Cleanup of the mood subsystem.
- - Fixes and cleanups for the flac decoder.
- - Latency improvements for the ogg/opus decoder.
- - Crypto support is now optional. On systems without
- openssl/gcrypt, the build succeeds but para_server,
- para_audiod, para_client won't be built.
- - The build system now works for cross-compile setups.
- - The dependency tree has been flattened, which speeds up
- builds and avoids to recreate the man pages on every change.
- - The error code helper has been rewritten from perl to C,
- which further improves build time.
- - Many small bugs in the build system have been identified
- and fixed.
-
-Downloads: ./releases/paraslash-0.5.1.tar.bz2 (tarball),
-./releases/paraslash-0.5.1.tar.bz2.asc (signature)
-
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-0.5.0 (2013-08-23) "invertible validity"
-----------------------------------------
-
-Some API-breaking changes, one serious bug fix, and a lot of bike-shedding.
-
- - The sideband compatibility code has been removed, hence
- sideband connections (introduced in 0.4.11) are now mandatory.
- - Addblob commands can produce output.
- - The stat command no longer sends garbage when para_server was
- compiled against libgcrypt.
- - Dependencies for gengetopt files are computed automatically.
- This eliminates a constant source of build bugs.
- - The setatt command now accepts file name patterns rather than only
- path names.
- - overview.pdf is now based on dia, a simple diagram creation program.
- The new version is much more detailed and contains descriptions of
- the various programs of the paraslash package.
- - The separator of all multi-word options has been changed from
- underscore to dash. For example --log_color becomes --log-color.
- - Overhauled web pages and the new logo.
-
-Downloads: ./releases/paraslash-0.5.0.tar.bz2 (tarball),
-./releases/paraslash-0.5.0.tar.bz2.asc (signature)
-
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-0.4.13 (2013-07-29) "spectral gravity"
---------------------------------------
-
-One more 0.4.x release before the API-breaking changes for 0.5.0 go
-in. The main features of this release are the ogg/opus audio format,
-and UTF-8 support, but it includes also tons of other improvements
-and fixes all over the place.
-
- - New audio format: ogg/opus.
- - UTF8 support for para_gui and the mp3 audio format handler.
- - Scheduler improvements and fixes.
- - The obsolete gettimeofday() function has been replaced
- by clock_gettime() on systems which support it.
- - Speed and usability improvements for para_gui.
- - para_client now restores the fd flags of stdin and stdout
- on shutdown.
- - Improved manual pages.
- - Consistent version strings for all executables.
- - Reduced dependencies on generated files result in fewer
- recompilations on changes.
- - Performance improvements for the compress filter.
- - Improved downloads web page.
-
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-0.4.12 (2012-12-20) "volatile relativity"
------------------------------------------
-The new command line player, the resample filter, ALSA support for
-para_fade, and the improved build system are the highlights of this
-release which probably marks the end of the 0.4.x series.
-
- - The afh receiver and the para_play executable.
- - The resample filter: A sample rate converter based on
- libsamplerate.
- - The "versions" directory has been removed from the master
- branch. The tarballs of the old releases are now available
- in the new "releases" branch.
- - Overhaul of the build system: All generated files are now
- written to the "build" directory.
- - The modular mixer API and the alsa mixer.
- - Minor fixes for the osx writer.
-
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-0.4.11 (2012-07-20) "mutual diversity"
---------------------------------------
-
-The major feature in this release is the new sideband API for
-client-server communication. This API will be used exclusively starting
-with 0.5.0, which breaks backward compatibility but allows to get rid
-of quite some compatibility code. Other noteworthy changes include
-decoder latency improvements and a long-standing bug fix for the
-ALSA writer.
-
- - Sideband connections: If both para_server and para_client
- support this feature, data is sent as a multiplexed stream.
- - The --no_default_filters option of para_filter has been
- removed.
- - Several fixes and latency improvements to various decoders.
- - The ALSA writer now limits the prebuffer time to 500ms.
- - Documentation improvements.
- - Overhaul of the command_util.sh script.
- - Fixes for some minor problems found by the clang analyzer.
- - Compiles (almost) without warnings on gcc-3.
- - Robustness improvements of the buffer tree code.
-
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-0.4.10 (2012-03-30) "heterogeneous vacuum"
-------------------------------------------
-
-Nothing earth-shaking in this release, but quite a few usability
-improvements and the usual mix of cleanups and fixes.
-
- - The --no_default_filters option of para_filter has been
- deprecated. It still works but has no effect and will be
- removed in the next version.
- - para_gui now prints also the stderr output of the executing
- command in the bottom window.
- - Cleanup and consolidation of the various wrappers for
- write(), writev(), send() and friends.
- - The obscure error messages on mmap() failures have been
- replaced by meaningful messages. This affects mainly
- para_afh.
- - para_audioc: Cleanups and memory leak fixes.
- - Test 0004-server no longer fails if para_server is not
- being built.
- - New configure options: --with-id3tag-{headers,libs}.
-
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-0.4.9 (2011-12-06) "hybrid causality"
--------------------------------------
-
-Support for another audio format, interactive mode for para_client
-and para_audiod and many small improvements/fixes all over the place.
-
- - Support for flac, the free lossless audio codec.
- - Fix for an endless loop in the mp3 decoder for certain
- (corrupt) mp3 files.
- - When executed without specifying a command, para_client
- and para_audioc start an interactive shell (requires
- libreadline being installed). The interactive mode offers
- full tab completion and command line history.
- - autogen.sh now detects a distcc setup and adjusts the
- parameter for the -j option of make accordingly.
- - Shared memory areas are no longer restricted to 64K. We now
- detect the maximal size of a shared memory area at runtime.
- - cleanup of the internal uptime API.
- - para_server prefaults the mmapped audio file to avoid
- delays on slow media.
- - A new test for the test-suite that exercises the
- communication between para_server and para_audiod.
- - The alsa writer eats up less CPU cycles when configured to
- use the DMIX plugin.
- - Simplified and unified receiver code.
- - Makefile cleanups.
- - Commands which print a list of matching audio files now
- emit a meaningful error message if no audio file matched the
- given pattern(s).
-
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-0.4.8 (2011-08-19) "nested assignment"
---------------------------------------
-
-Gcrypt support, the overhauled osx writer and regex format specifiers
-are the highlights of this release.
-
- - support for libgcrypt as a drop-in replacement for openssl.
- Run configure --enable-cryptolib=gcrypt to link against
- libgcrypt. The two crypto implementations are compatible to
- each other, i.e. a para_client executable linked against
- gcrypt can connect to para_server linked against libssl
- and vice versa.
- - Rewrite of the osx writer (output plugin for Mac OS).
- - audiod: The format specifier for receivers, filters and
- writers is now treated as a regular expression. This allows
- to replace 5 lines in the config file (one for each audio
- format) by one single line. See the manual for details.
- - The *.cmdline.[ch] files are no longer contained in the released
- tarballs. This reduces the size of the tarballs but requires
- gengetopt to build the tarball.
- - Compiles cleanly also with llvm/clang.
- - Corrupt mp3 files are handled more gracefully.
- - The alsa writer uses poll fds instead of computing timeouts.
- - Cleanup of the generic writer API.
- - sched: Optimized zero timeouts.
- - vss timeout cleanups.
- - oggdec fixes and improvements.
-
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-0.4.7 (2011-06-01) "infinite rollback"
---------------------------------------
-
-The new ao writer, support for ssh RSA keys and a couple of other
-enhancements.
-
- - Support for ESD, Pulseaudio, AIX, Solaris, IRIX and other
- platforms through the libao audio library.
- - Support for RSA keys generated with ssh-keygen.
- - configure: improved options for ogg/vorbis/speex.
- - The git version reported by --version always matches HEAD.
- - The autogen script detects the number of processors and
- runs a parallel make if possible.
- - Major cleanup of the crypto API.
- - Documentation updates.
-
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-0.4.6 (2011-03-31) "deterministic entropy"
-------------------------------------------
-
-Lots of ogg/vorbis improvements, the new test suite, enhancements
-for para_gui and a fair amount of other bug fixes.
-
- - For DCCP/OGG streams the audio file header is only sent once
- at the beginning of the stream rather than periodically
- every five seconds. This reduces network traffic and the
- FEC group size.
- - The vorbis comment header is replaced by an empty dummy header
- before the header is sent over the network. This also results in
- less network traffic and smaller FEC groups.
- - The new "test" make target allows to perform some sanity checks prior
- to installing the package.
- - ogg timing fixes and performance improvements
- - Scheduler improvements
- - Proper exit codes for para_write
- - para_gui: New option --theme to select a startup theme. Several
- other improvements and fixes.
- - aacdec error message cleanups
- - simplified color error handling
-
---------------------------------------------
-0.4.5 (2010-12-17) "symmetric randomization"
---------------------------------------------
-
-Bug fixes, internal cleanups and variable-sized FEC slices.
-
- - Contains a fix for an invalid-free-bug in the ogg audio format
- handler code.
- - Switching off the DCCP sender works again.
- - para_audiod handles crashes of para_server more robustly.
- - Internal scheduler and writer cleanups.
- - Reduced latency due to variable-sized FEC slices.
- - Improved documentation and error diagnostics.
- - The build of para_server is now optional, allowing the build
- to succeed in case libosl is not installed.
-
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-0.4.4 (2010-08-06) "persistent regularity"
-------------------------------------------
-
-Support for yet another audio format, para_write improvements and
-bug fixes.
-
- - Support for the speex codec.
- - Support for sample formats other than 16 bit little endian.
- - error2.h is now created by a perl script which speeds up configure
- considerably.
- - Fix a bug in the aac decoder which could lead to segfaults in
- para_filter/para_audiod.
- - Fixes for autoconf-2.66.
-
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-0.4.3 (2010-07-05) "imaginary radiation"
-----------------------------------------
-
-Many improvements for the DCCP and the UDP transport, the new user
-manual and the usual mix of bug fixes and internal improvements.
-
- - FEC support for the DCCP sender (Gerrit Renker). The new
- --dccp_max_slice_size, --dccp_data_slices_per_group and
- --dccp_slices_per_group options can be used to set the FEC
- parameters for the DCCP transport.
- - DNS lookups for UDP targets (Gerrit Renker).
- - The new user manual replaces the README, README.afs, REQUIREMENTS
- and INSTALL documents.
- - Fix an end-of-file detection bug in the oggdec filter.
- - The new nonblock API.
- - Both options of the oggdec filter have been removed.
- - New debug mode for the internal scheduler.
-
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-0.4.2 (2010-04-23) "associative expansion"
-------------------------------------------
-
-It's been some time since the last release, but finally here is
-paraslash-0.4.2. The bulk of the changes comes from the new buffer
-tree API, but there are changes all over the tree. Mainly performance
-and usability improvements, but also quite some bug fixes.
-
- - The new buffer tree API.
- - DCCP: Support for CCID negotiation (Gerrit Renker).
- - UDP robustness fixes.
- - The --bufsize option for mp3dec is gone as it no longer makes sense
- for the new buffer tree API.
- - Fix audible buffer underruns for wma streams.
- - The alsa writer no longer prints meaningless underrun durations.
- - audiod: Defaults work also for udp streams. If no filter is
- given for an audio format that is received via upd, fecdec is
- automatically added as the first filter (along with the decoder).
-
----------------------------------------
-0.4.1 (2009-12-22) "concurrent horizon"
----------------------------------------
-
-Support for another audio format, minor feature enhancements and lots of bug
-fixes. All fixes that have been accumulated in the maint branch (in particular
-those mentionened in the 0.3.6 release notes) appear in this release as well.
-
- - wma support.
- - new afh option: --human to activate human-readable output.
- - new server/audiod option: --log-timing to print timing information.
- - build system improvements.
- - source code documentation updates.
-
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-0.3.6 (2009-12-07) "cubic continuity"
--------------------------------------
-
-Quite a few bugs have been found and fixed since 0.3.5, so here's
-another 0.3.x release. No new features.
-
- - Always check return value of malloc().
- - ogg vorbis/FEC: Do not write garbage after the audio file header.
- - exit if root privileges could not be dropped.
- - FEC: Fix computation of extra slices.
- - oss: Fix check for empty input buffer.
- - Avoid buffer underruns due to filter chain output buffer constraints.
- - server: Fix assignment of afs_pid.
- - Don't panic if the afs database contains unknown audio formats.
- - http/dccp: Do not send the audio file header twice.
- - FEC: Timing improvements.
-
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-0.4.0 (2009-11-10) "simultaneous independence"
-----------------------------------------------
-
-Two significant changes which require the new version number: The
-improved authentication dialog and the fact that the database code
-has been moved to a library, libosl. To use the new version, you have
-to generate new RSA keys, see INSTALL for details. A shell script is
-provided for conversion of the 0.3 database to the new 0.4 format.
-
- - stronger crypto for client authentication
- - the database code has been moved to a library
- - improved status item handling
- - cleanup of the build system
- - The "-V" option now also prints the git version
- - the new parser-friendly listing mode for the ls and stat commands
- - mandatory rc4 encryption
- - major audio format handler cleanups
- - (id3,...) tags are no longer stored as a combined string in the database
- - new mood methods: artist_matches, title_matches, comment_matches,
- album_matches, year_maches, year.
-
---------------------------------------------
-0.3.5 (2009-09-21) "symplectic separability"
---------------------------------------------
-
-Full client support for *BSD Unixes, complete re-write of the ogg
-vorbis audio format handler, various improvements all over the place
-and the usual mix of bugfixes. This release marks the end of the 0.3
-series if no serious problems show up.
-
- - the new oss writer (supported on *BSD and Linux)
- - rewrite of the ogg vorbis audio format handler. It's
- recommended to replace the chunk tables of existing ogg
- vorbis files in the afs database by re-adding these files
- with "add -f".
- - support for netmask subsets (Gerrit Renker)
- - the new prebuffer filter
- - improved signal handling
- - variable fec output buffer size
- - improved FEC timing fixes audible buffer underruns in UDP mode
- - --log_color actually works
- - new ls option: -d (print dates as seconds after the epoch)
- - update to gengetopt 2.22.2
- - support for RSA keys of size > 512 bits
- - new option "mixer_channel" for para_fade
-
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-0.3.4 (2009-05-07) "elliptic inheritance"
------------------------------------------
-
-The new udp sender, forward error correction, colored logs and various
-other improvements. As the udp sender does not depend on any special
-libraries, it is built unconditionally.
-
- - The udp sender replaces the ortp sender. The new code uses forward
- error correction to protect against packet losses. Many thanks to
- Gerrit Renker for providing ipv6 support.
- - The default port for udp streaming now defaults to 8000, like
- for the http and the dccp senders/receivers.
- - Loglevels are now specified as symbolic names, e.g.
- "--loglevel info".
- - improved ipv4 and ipv6 URI parser (Gerrit Renker).
- - para_server/para_audiod: Color support for log messages.
- - new options for mp3dec: --ignore-crc, --bufsize
- - new audiod option: --config-file.
- - gengetopt cleanups.
- - Improved help/man pages: The documentation of para_audiod,
- para_recv, para_filter and para_write now also contains
- all options of the available receivers/filters/writers. The
- man page of para_fade contains a description of the different
- modes of operation.
- - More source code documentation.
- - vss timing fixes.
-
---------------------------------------------
-0.3.3 (2008-12-01) "axiomatic perspectivity"
---------------------------------------------
-
-Internal code cleanups, bug fixes, improved tag handling and the new
-amplification filter.
-
- - para_server uses the generic scheduling code.
- - overhaul of the virtual streaming system.
- - mp3: id3 version 2 support via libid3tag (optional)
- - ogg: vorbis comment support.
- - aac meta info support.
- - mp3 audio format handler cleanups.
- - new filter: "amp" to amplify the amplitude of the audio stream
- - new status item/database entry: amplification. It is
- used by the amp filter to pre-amplify the audio stream.
- - fix a close-without-open bug in para_write.
- - fix a bug in com_init() which was introduced in 0.3.2.
- - better error diagnostics for para_client.
-
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-0.3.2 (2008-04-11) "probabilistic parity"
------------------------------------------
-
-The new para_afh executable, scheduling and documentation improvements.
-
- - new ls option: -lc (list chunk table)
- - new executable: para_afh, the stand-alone audio file handler tool
- - afs commands can send output more than SHMMAX (32MB on Linux). This
- also reduces the memory usage of commands that produce large amounts
- of output.
- - major scheduler and audiod cleanups.
- - more detailed and much nicer man pages.
-
----------------------------------------
-0.3.1 (2008-02-23) "liquid interaction"
----------------------------------------
-
-A mix of cleanups, bug fixes, improvements, and some new features. No
-significant changes to the new database (osl) code, which is generally
-a good sign.
-
- - Share some similar/duplicate code between the http and the
- dccp sender.
- - Generic access control lists for paraslash senders.
- - dccp sender: Access control lists, connection limiting and support
- for the allow,deny,on,off,help sender commands.
- - The default dccp port changed from 5001 to 8000 (suggested by
- Gerrit Renker).
- - para_server starts even if not all public keys could be loaded.
- - Audiod performance improvements.
- - fix a bug in the "off" command of the http sender.
- - fix some fd and memory leaks.
- - Update to gengetopt-2.22.
-
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-0.3.0 (2008-01-12) "solar saturation"
--------------------------------------
-
-paraslash.0.3.0 -- 'WWDBND --what would databases never do?'.
-
-
-Usually one might expect lots of new features AND a big increase in size
-for a major release like this.
-
-However, paraslash-0.3.0.tar.bz2 is the smallest paraslash tarball
-ever. The decrease in size is mostly due to the removal of some
-graphical tools (which were only quick hacks anyway). But also the
-fact that the mysql code is gone cuts down the size a bit.
-
-Being independent of mysql comes at a cost: The fact that paraslash
-now contains its own database (the object storage layer, osl) increases
-the (stripped) binary size of para_server by ~50K on i386.
-
- - no more restrictions on unique basenames.
- - independent of mysql: The new self-contained object
- storage layer (osl) replaces the mysql database.
- - New executable para_fsck: Check integrity of osl tables.
- - Lyrics support.
- - Reliable audio file move/rename detection.
- - More portable than ever: Tested on Linux (x86_32, x86_64, sparc64),
- MacOS (ppc32, x86_32), FreeBSD (x86_32), NetBSD (x86_32) and
- Solaris (sparc64).
- - the new osl-based audio file selector (afs) replaces the random,
- the playlist and the mysql selector of paraslash-0.2.x.
- - IPv6 support (thanks to Gerrit Renker).
- - paraslash-0.2.x streams are now called "moods". Writing
- 0.3.x-mood definitions should be both easier and more
- powerful than writing 0.2.x-stream definitions.
- - para_krell, para_slider, para_para_sdl_gui, para_dbadm have
- been removed. The world is a better place without them. However,
- para_gui is still there.
- - afs tracks audio file selection also in playlist mode.
- - few easy-to-use afs commands replace the many not-so-easy-to-use
- mysql commands (and are available also in playlist mode).
- - Improved error subsystem.
- - The earth-shaking new logo.
-
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-0.2.17 (2007-11-20) "isotropic threshold"
------------------------------------------
-
-Mainly bugfixes and cleanups in this version which marks the end of
-the 0.2.x series if no serious bugs show up after the release.
-
- - mysql_selector: fix a locking bug.
- - universal chunk queueing.
- - dccp sender uses chunk queueing if write() returns EAGAIN (thanks
- to Gerrit Renker).
- - be more carful wrt. signed vs. unsigned argument passing.
- - cleanup error.h and fix some references to invalid error
- codes.
- - update to gengetopt-2.21.
- - update to ortp-0.13.1.
- - autoconf: extend checks for headers, library functions and
- compiler characteristics.
- - Fix streaming of large mp3 files.
- - Fix an off-by-one bug in playlist handling.
-
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-0.2.16 (2007-04-05) "neural discharge"
---------------------------------------
-
-The main change in this release is the major audio format handler
-cleanup which removes some similar/duplicate code and makes it easier
-to implement plugins for other audio formats. Of course, the usual mix
-of other improvements/changes/bugfixes also made it into the release.
-
- - simplified audio format handlers (most of the handling functions
- were moved one layer up to the virtual streaming system).
- - para_server uses mmap to read audio files
- - repositioning of mp3 streams is much faster, in particular for
- jumping near the end of large mp3 files.
- - permission flags DB_READ,DB_WRITE have been renamed to AFS_READ
- and AFS_WRITE.
- - fix a bug in para_filter that caused decoding of aac files
- to start only after a few seconds.
- - fix osx_writer hangs
- - simplified dccp code (thanks to Gerrit Renker)
- - the compress filter works also on big endian systems (ppc)
-
------------------------------------------
-0.2.15 (2007-02-16) "inductive resonance"
------------------------------------------
-
-Minor improvements, more documentation and a bunch of bug fixes.
-
- - para_server: The server.users file is only read once on server
- startup rather than for each connection
- - mp3dec: Fix decoding of corrupt mp3 files
- - afs (audio file sender) is now called vss (virtual streaming
- system). Consequently, the permission flags specified in
- ~/.paraslash/server.users have also changed: AFS_READ and AFS_WRITE
- become VSS_READ and VSS_WRITE respectively.
- - para_audiod/para_filter: Fix a bug that caused the last chunk
- of audio data not being written under certain circumstances
- - audiod: compute the difference of server time and local time
- correctly
- - para_server/para_audiod: Fix some memory leaks
- - documentation improvements
- - configure.ac: fix checks for para_krell
- - new man pages
-
--------------------------------------------
-0.2.14 (2006-10-15) "transient singularity"
--------------------------------------------
-
-The only major enhancement of this version is the osx writer which completes
-the Mac OS Port and was originally planned already for 0.2.13 but had to wait
-until now for reasons beyond the scope of this changelog entry.
-
- - new output plugin for Mac Os: the osx writer
- - rename configure command line options from --enable-xxx-headers to
- --with-xxx-headers and --enable-xxx-libs to --with-xxx-libs
- - configure: new command line options: --with-mad-headers,
- --with-mad-libs, --with-oggvorbis-headers, and --with-oggvorbis-libs
- - some robustness fixes
- - dymamic audio format recognition for audiod
- - para_server: new command line option: --autoplay_delay
- - para_audiod: new command line option: --clock_diff_count
-
----------------------------------------
-0.2.13 (2006-07-14) "sonic convolution"
----------------------------------------
-
-A bunch of new features and core changes.
-
- - the new paraslash scheduler, short and sweet.
- - Support for m4a/mp4 files via the new aac audio format
- handler/filter (requires libfaad).
- - each writer has its own command line parser, just like
- para_recv and para_filter.
- - para_client and para_audioc use the error subsystem
- - writers are integrated in para_audiod (currently linux-only)
- - para_client is integrated in para_audiod
- - random/playlist selector: improved info strings
- - new audiod commands: tasks, kill
- - update to libortp-0.10.1
- - para_fade: wake time defaults to 8 hours from now
- - update to autoconf-2.60
-
-------------------------------------------
-0.2.12 (2006-05-12) "oriented abstraction"
-------------------------------------------
-
-Many user-visible changes in this release and lots of new
-features:
-
-
- - the new optional dccp sender/receiver. It uses the datagram
- congestion control protocol. You'll need a fairly new kernel
- for this.
- - paraslash works on Mac OS X (thanks to Gerd Becker)
- - para_play renamed to para_write
- - modular output plugin design (writers) for para_write
- - new file_writer output plugin for para_write
- - compress filter speed improvements
- - update to libortp-0.9.1
- - update to gengetopt-2.17rc
- - para_client no longer depends on libreadline (as the
- code for the interactive mode was removed).
- - gcc-2-95 is no longer a supported compiler. It may still
- work, but it gets no more testing.
- - the tarball no longer contains the screenshot images which
- reduces its size quite a bit.
- - configure: new command line options: --enable-mysql-headers
- and --enable-mysql-libs
-
-------------------------------------
-0.2.11 (2006-03-11) "atomic duality"
-------------------------------------
-
-Here it is, the first paraslash release developed with git. There
-are fairly many user-visible changes in this release. As two out of
-the three "database tools" of paraslash don't use a database at all,
-they are now called "audio file selectors" instead.
-
-
- - the cdt command (change database tool) becomes chs (change
- selector)
- - no more colon separators: The syntax of some options of
- para_audiod and para_filter have changed. Use --help for
- more info (and some examples).
- - update to gengetopt-2.16 (thanks to Lorenzo Bettini)
- - switch from cvs to git (should've done that earlier)
- - the new ipc subsystem
- - new audio file selector: playlist
- - para_server: the dopey selector is now called "random",
- and is the default selector. Use the --selector option to
- choose another selector at startup, or the chs command to
- change the selector at runtime.
- - X86_64 fixes (thanks to Steffen Klassert)
- - para_play fixes
-
---------------------------------------
-0.2.10 (2006-02-17) "cyclic attractor"
---------------------------------------
-
-Huge documentation update, a scrollable window for para_gui, ortp
-improvements, and of course many small fixes not mentioned here.
-The diffstat below is rather misleading as most insertions are due
-to the new source documentation.
-
- - autoconf cleanup
- - para_server also uses the new error subsystem
- - lots of new documentation (UTSL)
- - gui improvements:
- - keysyms for cursor keys and for next/previous page keys
- - scrollable output window
- - new internal commands: scroll up/down, page up/down
- - fix color of command output.
- - ortp: the --chunk_time and --header flags are no longer needed
- for para_recv/para_audiod as this information is now encoded in
- each rtp packet sent by para_server.
-
--------------------------------------------
-0.2.9 (2006-01-24) "progressive turbulence"
--------------------------------------------
-
-Internal audiod receivers/filters, the new error subsystem and
-a lot of small improvements.
-
- - para_recv and para_filter are integrated into the para_audiod
- binary, i.e. audiod no longer spawns a new process for
- each receiver/filter. As para_recv and para_filter might be
- useful as standalone programs, they still get built (linked
- against the same object files that are also used for audiod).
- - further ortp timing improvements should reduce the CPU usage
- of the ortp receiver.
- - improved audio grabbing. The 'grab' command of para_audiod
- has its own set of command line options. Read the output of
- "para_audioc help grab" for more info.
- - oggdec: configurable input prebuffer size.
- - the new error subsystem gives better error diagnostics
- and reduces code size.
-
------------------------------------------
-0.2.8 (2006-01-02) "dynamic accumulation"
------------------------------------------
-
-The new modular filter design and the para_play-hangs bugfix.
-
- - new executable: para_filter. It combines para_mp3dec,
- para_oggdec and para_compress. It also adds a further filter
- type, wav, that just inserts a wave header at the desired point
- of the filter chain. All 'piping' is done in-memory (i.e. no
- read/write operations are used).
- - para_play: fix a stupid bug that caused it to hang under
- certain circumstances.
-
--------------------------------------------
-0.2.7 (2006-12-27) "transparent invariance"
--------------------------------------------
-
-Not many user-visible changes but a fair amount of internal improvements.
-
-
- - The http sender buffers data if it can not be sent
- out immediately (because the socket is not writable). This
- should prevent para_server from shutting down the connection
- too early on a loaded network.
- - para_play also prebuffers data if it is told to start at a
- future time by the --start_time option.
- - The return of para_recv: It combines para_ortp_recv and
- para_http_recv. Use the --receiver option to switch between
- the two. para_recv builds without libortp, but contains
- only the http receiver in this case.
- - update to ortp 0.8.1. As this ortp release contains incompatible
- changes, para_recv-0.2.7 won't link against older ortp libs.
- - improved ortp timings.
- - use of gcc-extensions that #define away for non-gcc and
- gcc < 3.0.
-
--------------------------------------------
-0.2.6 (2005-10-29) "recursive compensation"
--------------------------------------------
-
-Transparent session encryption (uses openssl's Alleged RC4 cipher),
-the internal find command and several other improvements and cleanups.
-
- - Encrypt the session if encryption is requested by the client
- (default for para_client 0.2.6). This is backwards
- compatible, so older clients can still connect to para_server
- 0.2.6. Use the new client option --plain to request an
- uncrypted session (off by default, must be set to on in
- order to connect to para_server 0.2.x with 0 <= x <= 5).
- - para_server uses an internal function to locate audio files
- rather than calling find(1). The server option
- --mysql_audio_file_dir replaces --mysql_find_cmd.
- - documentation update
- - man pages
- - header file cleanup
- - para_client code cleanup
- - para_gui: faster display of output of display commands
-
-------------------------------------------
-0.2.5 (2005-10-13) "aggressive resolution"
-------------------------------------------
-
-This release adds internal senders, i.e. no more external programs are
-spawned for sending out the audio data. There are two different senders
-available: The http sender and the ortp sender (former para_send which
-is no longer needed).
-
-The new sender code has a plugin-like design so it can be easily
-extended should there be be any future need for supporting another
-network streaming protocol. All senders are completely independent of
-each other. In particular, the http and the ortp sender can operate
-in parallel.
-
- - new server command: sender to control senders at runtime.
- Read the output of "para_server -h" and "para_client help
- sender" for more information.
- - para_recv renamed to para_ortp_recv
- - new executable: para_http_recv, a simple command line
- http receiver.
- - major afs/mp3/ogg code simplifications due to internal
- senders.
- - ogg timing improvements
- - fix several minor memory leaks (found by valgrind)
- - empty stream definitions work again
- - com_ne(): ignore errors on remove
- - audiod: fix segfault on server restart
-
----------------------------------------
-0.2.4 (2005-09-21) "toxic anticipation"
----------------------------------------
-
-Several small improvements, fixes and the new grab command.
-
- - audiod:
- - new command: "grab" to grab the output of the stream reader
- or any filters. Read the output of "para_audioc help grab"
- for more information.
- - fix memory leak
- - code cleanup
- - audioc: new command line option: --bufsize to specify a
- buffer size different from the default size 8192.
- - improved error diagnostics for para_play.
- - new configure option: --enable-ssldir so search for openssl in
- non-standard places
- - sdl_gui: Make it look nice again for 1024x768
- - server: report total size of memory allocated with sbrk by malloc,
- new command line option: --announce_time
-
------------------------------------------
-0.2.3 (2005-09-01) "hydrophilic movement"
------------------------------------------
-
-Two new executables and major feature enhancements.
-
- - audiod filters: It is now possible to specify arbitrary many
- (including none) filters for each supported audio
- format. This can be used e.g. for normalizing volume,
- transforming or grabbing the audio stream, or for using
- visualizers. Read the output of "para_audiod -h" for the
- syntax of the new --filter_cmd option.
- - new executable: para_play, a tiny alsa player. It
- can play wave files or raw pcm (16 bit little endian)
- from stdin.
- - new executable: para_compress, a dynamic range compressor
- intended to keep audio output at a consistent volume. Derived
- from AudioCompress, http://trikuare.cx/code/AudioCompress.html.
- - audiod: New option: --stream_delay. This can be used in
- a local network to syncronize the audio output of all
- clients that play the same stream.
-
-------------------------------------------
-0.2.2 (2005-08-19) "tangential excitation"
-------------------------------------------
-
-Mostly internal changes in this release, but also some new commands
-for the mysql database tool.
-
- - cleanup exec.c, fix para_exec bug
- - compile time loglevel (log messages below the given level
- won't be compiled in, which reduces the size of the
- resulting binaries)
- - new log macros that shorten the size of the source code.
- - workaround a gcc-4.1 bug (?) that caused send_cred_buffer()
- to send only zeros. With this workaround, para_audioc works
- again.
- - avoid gcc-4 warning: conflicting types for built-in function 'clog'
- - new mysql commands: "rm" (remove entry), "mv" (rename entry) "ne"
- (new entry), "snp" (set numplayed). Read the manual for more
- information.
-
----------------------------------------
-0.2.1 (2005-08-15) "surreal experience"
----------------------------------------
-
-Here comes paraslash-0.2.1. It contains a couple of new features and,
-surprise, only minor bug fixes.
-
- - kill noisy mp3 debug message
- - cleanup of the build system
- - para_server and para_client directly use the crypto routines
- of the openssl library rather than invoking the openssl command
- line utitlity
- - server/audiod: new option --user to switch to the given user
- when invoked as root. Read the output of "para_server -h" for
- more information.
- - gui/sdl_gui: new option --stat_cmd to be used to retrieve the
- status. Default: "para_audioc stat"
- - sdl_gui: new option --pic_cmd to be used to download the picture.
- Default: "para_client pic"
- - audiod: 5 slots ought to be enough for everybody
- - audiod: new status item: Uptime, kill hup command
-
-------------------------------------------
-0.2.0 (2005-08-06) "distributed diffusion"
-------------------------------------------
-
-After several month of increased development activity, paraslash-0.2.0
-has arrived. It contains many new features and is much more
-self-contained than the old 0.1.x series. Enjoy!
-
-
- - para_server: fix hang on song change and crash on sighup.
- Speed up mysql queries. The DIR_LIKE macro is gone.
- - new executables: para_audiod, the local audio daemon that
- starts playback (uses SCM_CREDENTIALS socket magic) and
- para_audioc, the corresponding client.
- - new executables: para_mp3dec/para_oggdec, two really teensy
- decoders. para_mp3dec is based on libmad, para_oggdec requires
- libvorbisfile.
- - ovsend/ovrecv are capable of streaming ogg as well as mp3, so
- they are now called para_send and para_recv respectively.
- - documentation updates
- - para_gui is themable. For now there is the default theme that
- looks as before and the simple theme: blue and easy.
- - gui: audio streaming is now handled by audiod. Time display shows
- playback time rather than streaming time
- - slider: update to libzmw-0.2.0
- - para_krell: fix crash on server shutdown
- - switch from gzip to bzip2
-
-----------------------------------------
-0.1.7 (2005-04-18) "melting penetration"
-----------------------------------------
-
-The main change in this release is clearly the oggvorbis rewrite,
-but there are also lots of smaller changes. If you intend to use both
-the mp3 and the ogg plugin, it is recommended to use software mixing,
-e.g. the dmix plugin which is provided by ALSA.
-
- - new executables: para_ovsend and para_ovrecv for sending/receiving
- oggvorbis files via rtp. Requires the open rtp library. Get it at
- http://www.linphone.org/ortp/
- - rewrite of the ogg_vorbis core code
- - configure detects libzmw and, if detected, includes
- para_slider to the list of binaries to be built by make
- - server stream writers read from their associated fifo rather
- than from stdin
- - slider: two new sliders, lastplayed and numplayed
- - fix nasty double free bug which caused random segfaults in case of
- mp3 files with invalid header information
- - gui: new command line option: --stream_timeout=seconds to
- deactivate a slot if it is idle for that many seconds (default=`5')
- - diffstats
-
----------------------------------------
-0.1.6 (2005-03-05) "asymptotic balance"
----------------------------------------
-
-Only little user-visible changes in this release. Mainly bugfixes and
-core code cleanup. This is probably the most stable version ever if you
-stick to mp3...
-
- - fix several memory leaks
- - rename default name of mysql database from "music" to "paraslash".
- Use para_server's --mysql_database option if you do not want to
- rename your old database.
- - rework ogg vorbis code
- - make update command work on mysql servers with LOCAL_INFILE
- disabled
- - gui: improved stream I/O (slots)
- - simplified audio format API
- - para_pob_ogg is gone
-
-------------------------------------
-0.1.5 (2004-12-31) "opaque eternity"
-------------------------------------
-
-Let's slide gently into the new year.
-
- - new: para_slider (not built automatically, type "make
- para_slider" to build). A toy for those who always felt that
- creating stream definitions is difficult. See screenshots,
- README and FEATURES for more info.
- - improved signal handling. Fixes server segfault on SIGHUP
- for linux kernels newer than Aug 24 2004 and makes para_gui
- race-free.
- - reload database tool on SIGHUP
- - improved help message for sl
- - do not log "broken pipe" messages as errors. They are
- perfectly ok.
- - fix wrong error message on permission errors
-
------------------------------------------
-0.1.4 (2004-12-19) "tunneling transition"
------------------------------------------
-
-Bugfix release. As expected, 0.1.3 introduced a bunch of new bugs.
-Hopefully, most of them got wiped out with this release. Some
-enhancements went also in.
-
- - improved error diagnostics for all commands
- - stradd/picadd: overwrite previous contents if entry already
- exists, rather than returning errors
- - stradd: use current stream if invoked without args
- - faster (and hopefully more stable) ogg-vorbis handling
- - para_krell: reap children to avoid zombie-flooding in case
- no server is running
- - si: report also server pid
- - server: don't busy-loop if dbtool reports only invalid files.
- - gui: CTRL+C works again, fix stream_read command line option
- - fix pic_add, hist
- - fix mysql dbtool startup in case no database exists
- - many small fixes and cleanups
-
----------------------------------------
-0.1.3: (2004-12-10) "vanishing inertia"
----------------------------------------
-
-Starting from this release, the database tools are integrated in the
-server binary. This decreases server startup time, reduces code size
-and speeds up database commands. However, the layout of the underlying
-mysql database changed only slightly and 0.1.3 should be backwards
-compatible in that respect.
-
-Visible changes:
-
- - If mysql is not detected at compile time, or fails to init
- at runtime, fall back to the dopey database tool which should
- always work.
- - para_dbtool and dbtool.conf are gone. All mysql specific
- options are read from server.conf and are prefixed by 'mysql_'.
- - new command: cdt (change database tool)
- - new command line option: dbtool (choose startup database tool)
- - The name of current stream is now stored in the database,
- so paraslash remembers its current stream when restarted.
- - new command: csp (change stream and play)
- - para_gui also reports current database tool and server uptime
-
--------------------------------------------
-0.1.2: (2004-11-28) "spherical fluctuation"
--------------------------------------------
-
-Point release before the big dbtool changes go in.
-
- - dbtool: rename ca to cam (copy all meta data). It now also
- copies numplayed and lastplayed time as well as the picture
- id.
- - fix endless-loop-bug caused by mp3 files with invalid header
-
------------------------------------------
-0.1.1: (2004-11-05) "floating atmosphere"
------------------------------------------
-
- - gkrellm plugin
- - new dbtool command: mbox. Browse your sound-file collection
- with your favorite mail reader.
- - several small fixes
-
--------------------------------------
-0.1.0: (2004-10-22) "rotating cortex"
--------------------------------------
-
- - fix logging bug for loglevel > VERBOSE
- - fix skip command
- - correct timings for vbr mp3s
- - modular audio format support
- - ogg-vorbis support (experimental)
- - new server option: autoplay
-
------------------------------------------
-0.0.99: (2004-07-25) "harmonic deviation"
------------------------------------------
-
- - rename projectname from icc to paraslash (play, archive, rate
- and stream large audio sets happily)
- - paraslash is no longer restricted to one particular audio
- streaming software
- - new dbtool commands (stradd, strq, strdel) for easy stream
- managment w/o configuration file. That obsoletes stream_defs
- file/config option for dbtool.
- - picadd accepts jpeg data from stdin
- - new server commands: ps (select previous stream), sc (song change)
- - new default pictures for sdl_gui
- - gui: new key_map option for binding commands and internal
- functions to arbitrary keys, nice help screen, rip out
- soundcard/linux specific stuff, avoid noise artefacts while jumping,
- show silly logo on startup
- - new executables: para_fade for fading volume, para_dbadm for
- manipulating attributes
- - cdb adds _all_ tables to mysql database
- - revised and beautified documentation
- - sample dbtool rewritten in C
- - autoconf
-
----------------------------------------------
-0.0.98: (2003-12-26) "incremental smoothness"
----------------------------------------------
-
- - kick icecast in favour of poc. That removes some races and reduces
- core code considerably.
- - cbr/vbr is displayed by stat and gui/sdl_gui. New status flags
- give finer info on afs' status.
- - gui can start decoder (see config options). Further new gui
- commands: refresh (^L), jmp (F1-F10)
- - gui rereads conf on SIGUSR1 instead of SIGHUP. SIGHUP
- terminates gui. This fixes dead instances consuming memory
- continuously.
- - new dbtool command: verb for sending verbatim sql queries.
- - fix pid_list races (by removing pid_list)
- - codename funnies
-
---------------------
-0.0.97: (2003-10-26)
---------------------
-
- - installation prefix now defaults to /usr/local
- - new commands for gui: snozze, sleep and reread config
- - config file for gui and sdl_gui
- - fix problems with filenames containing funny characters
- (reported by Thomas Forell)
- - improved signal handling for gui, now it rereads conf on SIGHUP
- - new dbtool command: cdb (create database)
- - switch from argtable to gengetopt
- - major code cleanup and speed improvements
- - fix several potential buffer overflows
- - many small fixes and cleanups
-
--------------------
-0.0.96 (2003-08-30)
--------------------
-
- - easy stream_defs syntax
- - sdl_gui can display images associated to the file being played
- - Major feature enhancements for icc_gui including dynamic text
- placement and the top/bottom window design
- - vrfy/clean now also checks for NULL values in attributes as
- well as for invalid picture pointers
- - fix long outstanding case sensitivity bug
- - many small fixes and cleanups
-
--------------------
-0.0.95 (2003-06-29)
--------------------
-
- - sdl gui runs much faster
- - new dbtool command: ca (copy attributes)
- - count and display number of times the song has been played
- - new feature: scoring
- - command line options for sdl_gui
- - simpler syntax of streams file
- - decrease network traffic of stat
- - fix zombie bug
- - many small fixes and cleanups
-
--------------------
-0.0.94 (2003-05-04)
--------------------
-
- - new server command: ns (next stream)
- - new icc_gui command: c (change stream)
- - internal mp3info
- - stat shows also id3 tag info
- - new sdl based gui
- - log flodding bug fixed
- - many small fixes and cleanups
-
--------------------
-0.0.93 (2003-03-28)
--------------------
-
- - colors for icc_gui
- - icc_gui sets volume directly (linux only)
- - proper locking that fixes some races
- - fix security bug that caused commands to be executed even
- with unsufficient permissions
- - new command: hup to make all servers reread their configuration file
- - icecast meta data streaming
- - many small fixes and cleanups
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