icecast-server/NEWS

Feature differences from SVN trunk

. fast pre-buffering aka burst-on-connect. State a burst size in bytes to
indicate how much should be sent at listener connect.
. mp3 accepts artist and title separately on the url.
. program invocation at stream start and end, per mount based.
. on-demand relays, activated on first listener, disconnected when listeners 
falls to 0. Available for master relays as well.
. multiple Ogg codec streaming. Current codecs handled are Theora, Vorbis,
Speex, Writ.
. Clients are started at theora key frame if theora is being streamed.
. Added URL and command based listener authentication
. server xml reload, and reopen logging available via admin url
. slave startup re-organised so that relays are more independant
. on xml reload, active sources are updated as well
. When max-listeners reached, a HTTP 302 code can be sent to redirect
clients to alternative slave hosts. 
. authenticated relays, those that match the relay user/pass, bypass the 
max-listener check

kh55
. let the stats relays loop around instead of blocking on conditions, that
  way we don't get out of sync if we miss a wakeup.
. some NULL checks in stats code were missing.
. updated xsl transform code, small changes to status.xsl as well
. add checks for missing / starting mountpoints
. sync up YP in trunk, this looks to be solid now.
. small include cleanups

kh54
. NULL dereference in yp from previous patch now fixed.
. When override set on an on-demand relay, then the relay now checks to see
  if there are any listeners on the fallback mount, if so then it starts up.
. removed useless per source clients stat, listeners already exists

kh53
. remove the last remaining stats at stream shutdown.
. implement hidden attribute for stats, source stats can be toggled between
  hidden/visible. This is a slight change to stats usage but not major.
. mountpoints on xsl are better handled now
. drop slave-host from xml parsing. They are used internally, created and
  removed by master relays authenticating against the relay user/pass.
. when moving clients don't report on-demand relays as source not available
. when moving clients don't show move clients on mount /a to /a entry.
. race fix for YP entries

kh52
. A lot of resync work with trunk
. add queue shrinking, reduces queues to either last listener or burst
. minor race fix, mp3 url update lock.
. allow for xsl files to show inactive mounts but with active fallbacks
. Add <hidden> attribute to <mount> to prevent xsl display
. add <burst-on-connect> flag to maintain compatability with trunk
. doc updates

kh51
. make config lock a rwlock instead of mutex, removes unneccesary stalling
  and removes possible (although not reported) deadlock cases
. very hard to trigger race in util fixed
. on-demand authenticated relay wasn't being kicked off properly
. allow the prevention of duplicate authenticated clients connecting. The
  mechanism is the same as SVN except duplication checking is a generic
  authentication check and applies to all auth mechanisms.
. make connection handler only sleep when connections are not pending
. mp3 streams with in-line metadata could of created some empty nodes, not
a stability problem, but wasteful.
. small memory leak fixes
. small internal code cleanups

kh50
. removed redundant pointer, adding new clients could cause a memory
  corruption problem
. structured relay startup differently, so that relays operate independently
  from one another. relay threads are now attached.
. resync with trunk. make m3u lookups more general, makes static files work
  with .m3u
. encode names and values from stats when building xsl pages
. add /admin/function[.xsl]?perform=xx the current handlers are
    xx = reopenlog
    xx = updatecfg
. removed old abort test

kh49
. allow for changes in mount settings to update active sources
. allow for slaves to authenticate with the master using the 
  master user/pass.
. if client authenticates as a relay then bypass the normal
  authentication and max listeners check.
. fix a string length problem with relay auth
. if slave fails to auth then log it and go back to waiting
. remove unused/debug code
. updated net code, timeout problem for slaves

kh48
. tweaks to per client write limits
. allow for on-demand to be set on all relays by default
. resync with trunk for refbuf singleq merge
. updated win32 build
. Add Ogg writ handler
. mp3 fixes, url metadata related
. resync yp timeout code to the same as in trunk
. allow for redirecting new clients to other hosts when full

kh47
. per mount burst size was not being referred to properly
. added sync markers to queue for client starts, the buffer with a sync mark
  from the burst point is where a client starts from.
. theora marks a sync marker on a page which has the start of a keyframe.
. vorbis and speex mark sync on all buffers unless theora is used. mp3 sync
  marks on every buffer.
. some code re-org for queue management, allows old refbuf removal even
  on socket read timeout
. place clients that can take more pending data at the beginning of the client
  queue. This allows for reducing client scanning when there's a short timeout

kh46
. New listeners actually drop to fallback mount, silly inverse bug
. typo in mp3 metadata handling, affected error case, rare
. make short delay timeout work when reading from source, minor handling
  case from previous update.
. make the ogg vorbis module use 1000 not 1024 as a factor for stats.
. if a YP server is up but not responding with an error message then show
  a default one.
. fixed a fallback problem and improved the log messages for when fallback
  is triggered.

kh45
. fix minor YP cleanup case when YP server fails and source disconnects
. cleanup from previous patch exposed a potential source reading bug, which
  had shown up because sources could disconnect for no reason.

kh44
. fix segv case for non-auth streams, unchecked in last release.
. only send ICY 200 OK if realplayer else send HTTP/1.0 200 OK
. allow for setting username/password for auth URLs
. still apply timeout to recoverable source read

kh43
. add <username> <password> tags for <relay>, default none, both need to
  be provided for auth to be attempted.
. add url based auth module. example in conf, you can state add and
  remove urls to run for each client, each add is passed id, user, pass, ip,
  user agent. The remove is passed id, user, pass, duration
. make sure the global client count is in sync when auth is used

kh42
. drop the use of thread conditional variables in the connection threads,
  they we not working as they should
. minor cleanups, log messages etc
. re-work auth subsystem to allow for slow auth mechanisms
. added command auth, do that listener auth can be done externally. The
  external command should take a mount, user and pass on separate lines and
  return a status code of 0 (authenticated) or non-zero (reject)

kh41
. fixed 401 reporting on missing urls, should be 404. Handle a very rare
  long lock held case as well

kh40
. make sure public is 0 in the stats tree
. move parse_audio_info back to source.c and make it thread safe
. add debug for YP ok case, debug is supposed to be rarely used after all
. up the per-listener max write threshold
. report 401 for failed auth connections
. add audio/x-mpeg mime type

kh39
. mp3 streams without metadata were not having their metadata initialised
  properly, causing problems when clients connected with metadata capable
  clients.
. send ice-audio-info to clients, provides YP info in relays situations

kh38
. re-sync with svn codebase, update listener auth and docs
. send ICY OK instead of HTTP OK for realplayer test
. minor cleanups

kh37
. add the previous vorbis specific handler back in, it allowed for updates
  via url. enabled via configure --enable-vorbis-updates
. updated admin pages to those in the main tree
. plug some minor memory leaks in yp

kh36
. force yp_remove, log message when found, fixed a race as well
. fix mp3 segv when on-demand relays are used
. fix debug messaging in yp.c, helps to track any YP related problems
. emit icy-br instead of icy-bitrate, allow relays to be on YP listings, but
  handle icy-bitrate as well
. <no-yp> (default 0) in <mount> prevents a mount from going on YP listings
. fixes to ice-audio-info handling.
. make yp thread wait longer than it does at shutdown, allows for final
  yp_remove on closing streams

kh35
. handle YP error conditions better.
. moving clients via url allows on-demand relays to startup/shutdown
. segv bug fixed from previous release, http headers were being prepared
  on mount switchover.

kh34
. minor fixes for YP, fix missing bits from rewrite
  if any YP request fails go back to add
  do a yp touch on inline mp3 updates as well as url metadata updates 
. sync with main tree for minor patches.
. set default stream burst size to 64k (typical player prebuffer size)
. fix some missing web stats
. add <fallback-when-full> (0 default) to <mount>, put new listeners
  on next available fallback, 404 otherwise

kh33
. schedule a YP touch on admin metadata updates
. build fix relating to geturl files.

kh32
. minor compile cleanups from CVS
. make sure a failed script does exit
. report system message on initial log open failure
. update YP thread code, big change.

kh31
. fix for bug when adding clients from pending list.

kh30
. add make static for those who want it
. changed code on list processing for active and pending clients
. changed when format-specific client data gets freed up
. shuffle code around, OK response to source client only source_client_thread
. 404 sent to client on failed on-demand relay
. more re-sync work + various non-functional cleanups

kh29
. revert test harness code left from before which advertised private streams
  and cleanup unwanted messages
. more cleanups, more sync work with CVS
. source_t wasn't going after source client disconnection

kh28
. more re-sync work
. fixed a yp deadlock case for stuffed yp servers.

kh27
. fixed 2 possible deadlock cases
. fixed race wrt to alias lookup after HUP change
. reset ogg stream type to "Ogg Vorbis" even if it isn't, so that YP
  shows icons correctly.

kh26
. fixed YP related bugs, leaks + bad pointer access
. fixed rare segv case in format_mp3
. more cleanup work in source shutdown
. Changed how client http headers are sent back
. Implement on demand relay, enabled with <on-demand>1</on-demand> in <relay>

kh25
. Changed Ogg module
  - added Ogg multiplexing
  - added theora and speex streaming
  - URL updates removed from vorbis, due to multiple codec support, maybe added later.
. continue with more re-sync to CVS work
. fixed a few rare races that had shown up with the re-sync work.

kh24
. more re-sync work with CVS.
. Identified a couple more locking issues via the admin interface
. remove errno use from stream dump routines

kh23
. re-sync with CVS tree, fallback override, no-mount, initial work on
  listener authentication.
. locking updates 
. on-connect/disconnect scripts are started and not waited on.
. icy/ice headers cleanup
. initialise config correctly

kh22
. fix some rare lock races
. page samples fix on EOS flush, reset granulepos to 0 on new stream
. add /admin/streamlist.txt from beta3
. big update of the relay code, supports master relay now
. added yp-log-headers tag in <logging> to disable YP header logging, it
  can make for lots of noise in the logs

kh21
. only send a 200 OK for source connections that are from source clientts
  and not relays
. on failed source init, some setup was not cleared and the source count
  was not decremented
. Check that writes to clients have actual data available
. fix deadlock case with yp
. fix locking for url metdata updates generically
. fix use of non thread-safe function localtime in yp

kh20
. fixed slave/stats shutdown race
. re-applying avl fix for null free function
. fix for vorbis, API changes caused stalls when sending to client
. relay updating/restarting code fixed.
. changes to vorbis input to allow for url updates
. allow for stating artist and title on url

kh19
. fix a few more signed/unsigned problems, affecting mp3 mainly
. re-worked pthread configure option
. update various bits to bring in line with v2.0 beta2

kh18
. another signed/unsigned int bug fixed
. added a short delay trigger for waiting clients, improves bursting
. added --disable-log-ip for the access log
. fix segv when adding clients to inactive relays

kh17
. cleanup some api bits
. fix mp3 bug causing glitches in the audio
. added pidfile support

kh16
. made outgoing serial numbers unique, helps in fallback situations
. revert date field to where it was in access.log. That way it conforms
  to the common log format for analysers.
. changed interal api of the client write function so that handling of
  burst limits is better. Also allow the queue to be more format specific.

kh15
. Updated vorbis input to rebuild stream, forcing pages to contain around
  1 second worth of audio.

kh14
. use localtime_r when available
. compile time switch for enabling/disabling logging IP in access log
. handle source counts better.
. relays retain the source struct so source clients don't steal inactive
  relay mountpoints.

kh13
. update to latest CVS docs
. fixup source timeout, internally it's in milliseconds, and can be
  stated per mount as well as globally.

kh12
. terminate stream if inline metadata does not contain "StreamTitle"
. Added docs by oddsock, and other updates from CVS
. wait for source start/stop run scripts to finish, linuxthreads
  were leaving zombies.
. missing initialiser for relay connection, caused segv on failed
  connections
. fix 3 mp3 metadata mis-alignment bugs on stalled links

kh11
. fix a bad memory reference from kh9
. don't free finished clients too early, bad memory reference

kh10
. when reading from straight mp3 stream (no shoutcast metadata)
  updates via url were not getting to clients. fixed

kh9
. per-mount queue and burst size options
. pre-mount on-connect/on-disconnect scripts
. more re-sync with cvs updates
. force relay re-check on xml update

kh8
. timeout value had multiple applied
. more dead code removal
. make initial mp3 metadata block blank
. fix potential leak in mp3 reading code.

kh7
. added stream type check for client moving
. various cleanups, dead code removal
. minor relay structure mem leak fix
. fix source count check.
. enable the fileserve thread again

kh6
. stream dumping added
. mp3 title update via url fixed up
. fixed up listclients, moveclients.
. re-implemented source fallbacks

kh5
. 2 lots of ;; caused compile problems on windows
. enable curl for YP access
. allow the format specific get buffer routine to return
  NULL for retry, needs to set running to 0 now
. add vorbis header parsing for artist title stats
. add mp3 title parsing for the stats

kh4
. handle relay start and shutdown better.
. apply avl rwlock leak fix
. apply stats thread sleep avoidance fix
. update sock.c errno check
. enable stats/YP thread, add various stat triggers

kh3
. fix burst size larger than queue size case
. prevent relay connections initiating if connection is running
. send server package string from autoconf
. fixed a few segvs from previous update

kh2
. fix mp3 handling, metadata handling wasn't correct.
. fix flow control, locks/source counts with relay
. Added <burst-size> tag default 0 (in bytes)
. Use queue size field, was hardcoded before
. Don't filter refbuf if 0 length but have associated data
. handle EOF/error from socket in format_mp3

kh1 - core update
. removed many locks
. used single queue for source data.
. clients start at end of queue and allowed to repeat writes, thus
  giving bursts at connection. capped at 8 writes
. many secondary things not working. stream dumping, YP, stats,
  web interface
. mp3 incl shoutcast meta and ogg should work 

2003-10-12
    Added documentation

2003-04-23
    Support aliases

2003-03-09
    Support listening on multiple sockets.

2003-03-08
    Support for shoutcast source protocol added.

2003-03-08
    Started implementing generic admin interface. Supports (so far): 
    - dynamic configuration of mount fallbacks
        /admin/fallbacks?mount=/mount&fallback=/fallback
    - setting of mp3 metadata
        /admin/metadata?mount=/mount&mode=updinfo&song=New%20Title
    - dumping raw xml stats
        /admin/rawstats
    - listing all connected clients on a mountpoint: 
        /admin/listclients?mount=/mountname

2003-03-05
    Implemented the ability to reread the config file on SIGHUP. For now, this
    does not affect configuration for currently running sources (only new
    sources and global parameters like max-listeners)

2003-03-02 
    More features:	 
    -- per mountpoint listener maxima   
    -- static configuration of mountpoint fallbacks   
    -- stream dumping (write incoming stream to disk)

2003-02-27
    Fix log buffering on win32 - previously, logs were never flushed, so they
    only got output every few tens or hundreds of lines.

2003-02-27
	Support new icy-audio-info header, to communicate various parameters to
    clients and yp servers, including sample rate, quality, channels, bitrate

2003-02-25
    Full support for relaying mp3 metadata (if turned on in config file)

2003-02-25
    Allow configuration of maximum client queue length (in bytes)

2003-02-14
    Finished full IPv6 support. 

2003-02-12
	Allow configuring local mountpoint seperately from remote mountpoint for
    relays

2003-02-12
	Per mountpoint usernames and passwords (for sources)

2003-02-11
	Now that it's been officially assigned, use application/ogg instead of
	application/x-ogg

2003-02-07
    Allow relaying of mp3 streams from icecast 1.x and shoutcast

2003-02-07
    Added ability to configure individual relays (rather than just all streams
    from a single server).

2003-02-03
    Added support for YP directory services listings
	are only used by the yp listing routines

2003-02-03
    Support command line parameter -b to run in the background (not supported
    on win32)

2002-12-31 
    Implement configurable mountpoint fallbacks (on source exit, clients are
    transferred to another mountpoint automatically, without disconnecting
    them)

2002-12-31
    Implemented full mp3 metadata support.

(older stuff is missing from here)