Icecast is free server software for streaming multimedia.

Icecast Release 2.5.0-rc2

We are pleased to announce Icecast 2.5.0-rc2 (2.4.999.2). This is a rc release. Usage in production should be with caution, but we recommend broad testing.

Downloads

• Source: icecast-2.4.999.2.tar.gz

Security updates

This release comes with no specific security fixes. However some of the changes below might improve security.

Miscellaneous updates

• Require libigloo 2.9.4
• Updated Icecast installer and run helper on Windows
• Added support for build-info (to be used by downstream distributions)

New features

• Web interface
  • General improvements of web interface
  • Added warning if a stream has no language set
  • Added more information on legacy clients on dashboard
• Events
  • Added support to terminate Icecast using an event
• Internals
  • Added checks for file permissions

Fixes and Cleanup

• Fixed HTTP keep alive handling for legacy clients. This works around a bug in PHP
• Provide internal fallback implementations for string matching functions missing on Windows
• Improved keep alive handling for URL Auth backend
• Improved log output
• Fixed incorrect header handling in FLAC streams