X-Git-Url: http://git.tuebingen.mpg.de/?p=paraslash.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS.md;h=55ef3be947ee76d6b0937b33988b0cd960c0e985;hp=7f61b920d1463e03be7aa3aa1355c93c5ab16467;hb=4e50b2401961b6ecc10f5e57d93b376401115395;hpb=a2c5e36d230e651e15f0408a74f7991c6095cdbc diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md index 7f61b920..55ef3be9 100644 --- a/NEWS.md +++ b/NEWS.md @@ -1,9 +1,230 @@ NEWS ==== ------------------------------------------- -current master branch "cascading gradient" ------------------------------------------- +-------------------------------------- +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 + 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 +is supported for all audio formats. Many small cleanups and bug fixes +not mentioned here have accumulated and are also part of the release. - para_afh learned to modify meta tags of mp3 wma ogg spx opus flac aac files. @@ -12,7 +233,17 @@ current master branch "cascading gradient" inconsistencies. - New -v flag for the version command (print verbose version string) - 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. +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"