X-Git-Url: http://git.tuebingen.mpg.de/?p=paraslash.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS.md;h=eda654a6a155e2f4c484bfa3013d7edc7d278aec;hp=9b6ef0a7e9d23e8ef08a078afa74da86ef47828a;hb=0c7c4d80673854527ce3c3786dd581169565b5e6;hpb=9264932e105071a24d843785900e29e70c78d6ae diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md index 9b6ef0a7..eda654a6 100644 --- a/NEWS.md +++ b/NEWS.md @@ -1,9 +1,120 @@ NEWS ==== ------------------------------------- -0.6.0 (to be announced) "fuzzy flux" ------------------------------------- +---------------------------------------------- +0.6.3 (to be announced) "generalized activity" +---------------------------------------------- + +- 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. + + +-------------------------------------- +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. @@ -34,9 +145,37 @@ NEWS 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-git.tar.bz2), +[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"