X-Git-Url: http://git.tuebingen.mpg.de/?p=paraslash.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS.md;h=08acd22cbc81adeee24d88f784d813207ff47b63;hp=3d00528d123929d78d4895a5a57fd748c085cdad;hb=a826152ba51fd4813f715e5fa30e7d70407dc846;hpb=121015ff5cdbe6af7b84f6245ebe62fe2a52a859 diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md index 3d00528d..08acd22c 100644 --- a/NEWS.md +++ b/NEWS.md @@ -1,9 +1,33 @@ NEWS ==== ------------------------------------------- -0.5.7 (to be announced) "semantic density" ------------------------------------------- +------------------------------------ +0.6.0 (to be announced) "fuzzy flux" +------------------------------------ +- 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 It was superseded + by aes_ctr128 three years ago but the RC4 code had been kept for + backwards compatibility. + +Downloads: +[tarball](./releases/paraslash-git.tar.bz2), + +------------------------------------- +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 @@ -16,8 +40,45 @@ NEWS 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) --------------------------------------- 0.5.6 (2016-07-10) "cascading gradient"