X-Git-Url: http://git.tuebingen.mpg.de/?p=paraslash.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS.md;h=457f6781ead9a994707e2ac1019c97b5fe1677ce;hp=a0bec53c507173531ec6320de08e19557c1aaac1;hb=bfa9eeeacd7822b8087fa42ce891a3a66b5b21e3;hpb=06d0c50525fc14e8127916481a74c14a2f7098af diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md index a0bec53c..457f6781 100644 --- a/NEWS.md +++ b/NEWS.md @@ -1,9 +1,82 @@ NEWS ==== ------------------------------------------- -current master branch "cascading gradient" ------------------------------------------- +--------------------------------------- +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) + +------------------------------------- +0.5.7 (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 + source file. +- Two race conditions in para_server have been fixed. +- ls -p is now deprecated in favor of -F or -b. See the help text of + the ls command for details. +- The openssl code has been adjusted to work also with openssl-1.1. +- The wma decoder and audio format handler now correctly decodes + 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. + +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" +--------------------------------------- The highlight of this release is the new -m flag for para_afh which lets it modify the meta tags of the given audio file(s). This feature @@ -19,10 +92,15 @@ not mentioned here have accumulated and are also part of the release. - New option --priority for para_server and para_audiod. - New mood methods: image_id and lyrics_id. - The manual and this NEWS file have been converted to markdown. +- Support for the compile-time loglevel feature has been removed. - Cleanup of the wma decoder and bitstream code. - Improved wide-character support and fixes related to signal handling. +- para_gui no longer reports 100% playing time at the stream start. +- Opus cleanups. -Download: [tarball](./releases/paraslash-git.tar.bz2) +Downloads: +[tarball](./releases/paraslash-0.5.6.tar.bz2), +[signature](./releases/paraslash-0.5.6.tar.bz2.asc) -------------------------------------- 0.5.5 (2015-09-20) "magnetic momentum"