X-Git-Url: http://git.tuebingen.mpg.de/?p=paraslash.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=cb7ba06d5ae70631f6160daf5f9a8888a3227526;hp=a4e06762097f9cdb243d119e037f60a8a6349144;hb=d544360d5aef3afc27174777a6616f0393bba693;hpb=271c83d4fd9411be628fa650ce595ac79754d22e diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index a4e06762..cb7ba06d 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,9 +1,98 @@ -NEWS -==== +------------------------------------------------- +0.4.5 (to be announced) "symmetric randomization" +------------------------------------------------- + + - Fix an invalid-free-bug in the ogg audio format handler code. + +------------------------------------------ +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. + +---------------------------------------- +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. + +------------------------------------------ +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). ---------------------------------------------------- -0.4.0 (to be announced) "simultaneous independence" ---------------------------------------------------- +--------------------------------------- +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. + +------------------------------------- +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. + +---------------------------------------------- +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 @@ -14,21 +103,34 @@ 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 - - improved tag handling - - lots of new mood methods + - (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 (to be announced) "symplectic separability" -------------------------------------------------- +-------------------------------------------- +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