ezstream/NEWS

Changes in 0.3.0, (SVN trunk):

 * The original author, Ed Zaleski, hands over ezstream maintainership to
   Moritz Grimm.

 * New features:
   - Playlist shuffling support, enabled via the new <shuffle> configuration
     option.
   - Playlist scripting support: Indicate that the executable in <filename>
     should be run each time to get a new media filename to stream, by setting
     the new <playlist_program> configuration option to 1.
   - New <stream_once> configuration option, which makes ezstream play a media
     file or playlist once and then exit.
   - New <reconnect_tries> option to restrict the number of reconnection
     attempts to a server in case the connection goes down.
   - Add feature to skip the currently streaming track, done by sending the
     SIGUSR1 signal to the ezstream process.
   - New command line option `-q': Suppress standard error output from external
     de-/encoders.
   - New command line option `-v': Produce more verbose output.
   - New "real-time" status display of the stream when both -q and -v are given
     on the command line.
   - Thorough configuration file checks with helpful error messages.
   - The @M@ metadata placeholder is now supported in <decode>.
   - Playlists may now have the '.txt' filename extension in addition to
     '.m3u'.

 * Fixes:
   - At least one stack and one heap overflow have been fixed.
   - Several memory leaks have been fixed.
   - Strict checking of the configuration file prevents unexpected behavior and
     adds another safeguard to prevent crashes.
   - Fixed and more portable signal handling.

 * Miscellaneous, user-visible changes:
   - Improved documentation. Ezstream now has a comprehensive man page and the
     README file has been rewritten.
   - Consistency improvements in the configuration examples. The examples are
     now also installed.
   - The <format/> and <match/> configuration elements, as well as filename
     extension matching to detect playlists in the <filename> element, are
     now case insensitive.
   - Various improvements in the build system and portability fixes.
   - Consistent and more helpful messages from ezstream. By default, ezstream
     no longer clutters the screen with lots of output (some information that
     used to be available needs to be enabled with the new `-v' command line
     parameter.)
   - Tweaked metadata string generation: no more lone " - " dashes at the
     beginning or end of the string.



Changes in 0.2.1, released on 2005-12-14:

 * ezstream.c:
   - [FIX]   Prevent a heap overflow with large ID3v1 tags.
   - [FIX]   Use pclose() on FILE* handles that were opened with popen().



Changes in 0.2.0, released on 2005-01-05:

 * various:
   - [MISC]  Clean up and improve example configuration files, and add more
             examples.

 * ezstream.c:
   - [FIX]   Fix reencoding support on Windows.
   - [ADD]   Attempt to reconnect to a server if the connection goes down
             during streaming.



Changes in 0.1.3, released on 2004-12-22:

 * various:
   - [ADD]   Add support for streaming Ogg Theora.
   - [ADD]   Add reencoding support via external de-/encoders.
   - [ADD]   Support passing through unknown media types.



Changes in 0.1.2, released on 2004-04-21:

 * src/ezstream.c:
   - [ADD]   Add feature to reread the playlist after the currently streaming
             track, done by sending the SIGHUP signal to the ezstream process.



Changes is 0.1.1, released on 2004-02-02:

 * src/ezstream.c:
   - [FIX]   Set read mode to binary for stdin on WIN32.

 * win32/ezstream.dsp:
   - [MISC]  Add libxml to project file.



2004-01-30:

 * Initial import of ezstream 0.1.0 into Xiph.org SVN.

 * Ezstream 0.1.0 released.