Icecast is free server software for streaming multimedia.

Icecast Release 2.4.0

We are pleased to announce release 2.4.0 of Icecast. A summary of the changes is listed below, for details please refer to the ChangeLog.

Downloads

• Source: icecast-2.4.0.tar.gz
• Windows icecast_win32_2.4.0.zip

New features

• Support for Ogg Opus streams
• Support for WebM streams
• HTTP 1.1 PUT support for source connections. Deprecating SOURCE method.
• Default mount
  This allows you to define a global set of defaults for all mounts. This way you can use e.g. url-auth for sources and or listeners also for dynamically generated mounts.
• Web interface redone
  • Web output properly redone, credit to ePirat.
  • Added <audio> element for supported audio streams.
  • Now validates completely as XHTML1.0 strict.
  • Improves rendering on mobile devices.
• Added basic JSON API (/status-json.xsl) based on a xml2json template by Doeke Zanstra (see xml2json.xslt). Output is roughly limited to data also visible through status.xsl.
• Send charset in HTTP headers for everything, excluding file-serv and streams.
• Allow (standard strftime(3)) %x codes in <dump-file>. Disabled for win32.
• Added stream_start_iso8601, server_start_iso8601 to statitics. ISO8601 compliante timestamps for statistics. Should make usage in e.g. JSON much easier. Added as new variables to avoid breaking backwards compatibility.
• Now compiles for win32 using mingw
• Added options headers and header_prefix to URL based listener auth.
• Updated listener_remove handler, added ip= and agent=
• Allow full URLs to be returned by the master server.

Fixes

• Security Fix: Override supplementary groups if <changeowner> is used
• Fixes for some race conditions
• Dropped debian packaging directory as debian use their own.
• Send proper HTTP headers in responses to clients.
• Corrected Content-Length header in admin (raw) requests. Thanks to paluh for reporting.
• Escape log entries in access log
• Fixed a memory leak. Lost headers of stream because of wrong ref counter in associated refbuf objects.
• Avoid memory leak in _parse_mount() when type-attribute is set
• Updated web interface to be XHTML compliant.
• Removed status2.xsl from release. It was only a broken example file anyway.

Known issues

• Will crash if certain config tags are left empty.
• Webinterface shows Login when using just stream_auth.